[Fedora]

Thank you :) I'm also looking more into Gelb and Ellsberg's network, as it appears a number of figures associated with them during the Watergate era recur in today's controversy. Seymour Hersh is another. I am currently reading, but have not yet finished, a source which may have some additional information, for anyone who wants to follow up on this:

Tom Wells, Wild Man : The Life and Times of Daniel Ellsberg

As I'm typing this, I'm wondering if there is any connection between Clarke and Anthony Lake, another associate of Gelb's, who was also a Watergate figure and whom Clinton wanted to appoint CIA Director:

Security Risk for CIA: Plumbing the depths of Anthony Lake's dubious past

Commissioned by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara (CFR) in 1967 to assemble official records on U.S. involvement in Vietnam, the Pentagon Papers study team had access to many top-secret documents. Lake, together with Morton Halperin and Leslie Gelb, was one of the Vietnam Task Force leaders on the project, which was under the supervision of Paul Warnke, an Assistant Secretary of Defense. All members of that quartet were, or would become, (and remain today) members of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), otherwise known as the "Park Avenue State Department." Gelb and Lake signed off on the release of the Pentagon Papers to Daniel Ellsberg (CFR), who, in turn, leaked them to comrades at the subversive Institute for Policy Studies and, eventually, to the New York Times and the Washington Post. All of these players -- Lake, Halperin, Gelb, Warnke, and Ellsberg -- soon became activists in the IPS network.

[NativeNewYorker]

The Fifth Column is both in the mosque on Third Avenue, and in the prestige flats on Fifth Avenue.

[Fedora]

My Anthony Lake hunch was right:

Anti-Terror Pioneer Turns In the Badge

Under Clinton, Clarke had carte blanche from national security advisers Anthony Lake and Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger to blow past bureaucratic turf lines and assume operating and budgetary powers that were nowhere specified by statute or executive order. Berger said he regularly turned down demands that he fire Clarke.

[expatpat]

All of these players -- Lake, Halperin, Gelb, Warnke, and Ellsberg -- soon became activists in the IPS network.

Is it just me, but there seems to be an awful high percentage of Jewish lefties in this list.

[HateBill]

Ven-Beniste (commie partisan attack dog) is another veteran of Watergate.

[windchime]

"Gelb and Lake signed off on the release of the Pentagon Papers to Daniel Ellsberg (CFR), who, in turn, leaked them to comrades at the subversive Institute for Policy Studies and, eventually, to the New York Times and the Washington Post. All of these players -- Lake, Halperin, Gelb, Warnke, and Ellsberg -- soon became activists in the IPS network."

The spider web gets bigger:

 Morton H. Halperin - Director Open Society Institute DC          Open Society Institute  (OSI) Soros     

  Morton H. Halperin - Institute for Policy Studies   and more  Institute for Policy Studies 

 Morton H. Halperin - Biographical Information

 NOMINATION OF DR. MORTON H. HALPERIN (Senate - July 01,1993)

The Case Against the Halperin Nomination [Second Edition]