The Project was a vast military-industrial conspiracy, involving tens of thousands of people -- recruitment, facilities engineering and construction, production and procurement of vehicles and equipment, security and counter-intelligence, surveys and predictions about the Atomic War and the condition of America afterwards, and scientific research (on the new technologies from the future). Bruce Morrow gathered "nine of the country's leading industrialists" -- not "nine of the greatest scientists", "nine of America's richest people", or "nine of the nation's most powerful political leaders" -- the Project is clearly intended to be supported by Big Ol' American Industry.
From my point of view, it's quite possible that anything from a single 'mole' to a whole chunk of the Council of Tomorrow could be the source of information about the Atomic War and outre technology. Clearly, though, this leak was kept secret from the Project before the Atomic War; and the Rich Five (or KFS) don't have much reason to give any credit to the Morrow Project. In game play terms, all that matters is: how much do they know about the Project? They tell their minions to capture Morrow teams, etc.
I'm personally kind of dubious about more than one member of the Council of Tomorrow being also a member of the Rich Five -- Morrow security should be better than that; and if too many members of the Council were 'baddies', the Project itself would have been subverted.
But it doesn't matter too much; ordinary members of the Morrow Project don't know the names of any members of the Council of Tomorrow. If they hear that "John Smith" is in the Rich Five, there's no reason for them to say, "Ah ha, he was also on the Council."
There have been many threads in this and other forums about who the Council members might have been, which companies were involved, etc.. I think that for the same reason the Project didn't tell anyone where Prime Base was, they would try to avoid information about which companies were supporting the Council of Tomorrow (Cadillac-Gage and Morrow Industries being obvious exceptions).
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Michael B.
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