 In terms of the UN Charter and of our own avowed ideals, it was a war of foreign aggression, American aggression.By 1969, Ellsberg began attending anti-war events while still remaining in his position at RAND.In April 1968, Ellsberg attended a Princeton conference on “Revolution in a Changing World,” where he met Gandhian peace activist Janaki Tschannerl from India, who had a profound influence on him, and Eqbal Ahmed, a Pakistani fellow at the Adlai Stevenson Institute later to be indicted with Rev.