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Jan 19, 2018 · In 1971, Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers to the press in the hope that they would help end the Vietnam War. His story is portrayed in the new film The Post. Originally broadcast Dec. 4,...
- Daniel Ellsberg, whistleblower behind historic Pentagon ... - NPR
As a military analyst working on a Pentagon project in 1971,...
- Remembering Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers
His time in Vietnam as an analyst eventually turned him...
- Daniel Ellsberg, whistleblower behind historic Pentagon ... - NPR
Apr 8, 2021 · Fifty years ago this spring, Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers, a seven-thousand-page top-secret history of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. The study revealed systematic lying...
Jun 16, 2023 · As a military analyst working on a Pentagon project in 1971, Ellsberg chose to release to the public an extensive, documentary record of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. Known...
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Jun 16, 2023 · In the course of several months in 1969 and 1970, he copied seven thousand pages of top-secret documents that laid out how four successive Presidents, from Truman to Johnson, deceived the public...
Jun 16, 2023 · NEW YORK (AP) — Daniel Ellsberg, the history-making whistleblower who by leaking the Pentagon Papers revealed longtime government doubts and deceit about the Vietnam War and inspired acts of retaliation by President Richard Nixon that helped lead to his resignation, has died.
Jun 23, 2023 · His time in Vietnam as an analyst eventually turned him against the war, and he laboriously copied the 7,000-page Pentagon Papers and leaked them to The New York Times and The Washington Post.
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Jun 6, 2021 · Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers to expose actions the US had taken in the Vietnam War. For 50 years, the study went virtually unnoticed until 2017, when Mr Ellsberg published...
