Pentagon Papers 
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SOURCE: New York Times
4/20/2023
The Documents Daniel Ellsberg Didn't Leak
While famous for leaking the Pentagon Papers in 1971, the researcher and activist has revealed that he had another stash of secret papers—about American nuclear war planning—that he felt a duty to publicize. He never did release them, but is committed in his last days to work against nuclear war.
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SOURCE: WBUR
6/28/2021
50 Years Ago, Daniel Ellsberg — Who Leaked The Pentagon Papers — Surrendered At Boston Federal Court
Daniel Freudberg covered Daniel Ellsberg's trial as a teenager. Here, he recalls the experience and the real-time impact of the Pentagon Papers' publication.
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SOURCE: New York Times
6/9/2021
In Vietnam, the Pentagon Papers Are History Written by the Defeated
by Lien-Hang Nguyen
A Vietnamese historian explains how the Pentagon Papers have become a foundation of domestic histories of war (both before and during US involvement) even as the Vietnamese government has declined to release its own official histories of the conflict.
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6/20/2021
50 Years Later, the Pentagon Papers Remain an Historic Landmark for Freedom of the Press
by Jared Schroeder
While democratic norms have, at times, seemed paper thin in recent years, the Court’s terse decision in the Pentagon Papers decision persists as a bulwark against government efforts to halt publication.
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SOURCE: New York Times
6/9/2021
"We're Going to Publish": The New York Times' Oral History of the Pentagon Papers
From RAND Corporation leaker Daniel Ellsberg to first amendement litigator Floyd Abrams, the key players in the 1971 publication of the Pentagon papers reflect on their work 50 years later.
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SOURCE: New York Times
6/11/2021
Secrets That Were No Secret, Lessons That Were Not Learned
by Andrew Bacevich
The Pentagon Papers are a document of the hubris and ignorance of American military leaders in the Vietnam era, but Andrew Bacevich warns that the idea that global problems are amenable to being solved by American arms remains dangerously popular.
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SOURCE: Ellsberg Archive Project
4/28/2021
Truth, Dissent & the Legacy of Daniel Ellsberg: Free, Open Online Conference April 30-May 1
A free online conference brings together more than two dozen distinguished historians, journalists, activists, whistleblowers, and former policymakers on the eve of the 50th anniversary of Ellsberg’s leak of the Pentagon Papers. Ellsberg himself will present the keynote.
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/7/2021
Now It Can Be Told: How Neil Sheehan Got the Pentagon Papers
Award-winning journalist Neil Sheehan told an interviewer the story of how he got the Pentagon Papers, on the condition that the story could not be published while he was alive. His passing this week opens up new knowledge in the history of press freedom and the Vietnam war.
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/7/2021
Neil Sheehan, Reporter Who Obtained the Pentagon Papers, Dies at 84
Neil Sheehan's earned skepticism of the rightness of the American mission in Vietnam made him the reporter to whom Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971. He won a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award for his volume "A Bright Shining Lie" about the war.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
12/9/19
'Modern-day Pentagon Papers’: Comparing the Afghanistan Papers to blockbuster Vietnam War study
Both studies were commissioned by obscure Defense Department agencies, Both are massive, and Both involved court battles, but 1971 was more dramatic.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
1/29/18
Gar Alperovitz played key secret role in release of the Pentagon Papers
Speaking publicly for the first time, the historian reveals the crucial role that he and a small band of others played in helping Daniel Ellsberg leak the documents to journalists.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
12-28-17
Newton Minow recalls what happened to Rand when the Pentagon Papers came out
by Newton N. Minow
Nixon withdrew the think tank’s security clearance.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
12-20-17
How a reporting mistake nearly derailed the Watergate investigation — and how journalists recovered
by Jon Marshall
Today’s journalists would do well to remember these lessons.
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SOURCE: Salon
12-24-17
Behind the Pentagon Papers: The beginning of Nixon’s end
by Ken Hughes
What was Nixon trying to hide? Here’s a comprehensive timeline of his descent into paranoia and lawlessness.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
11-28-17
Daniel Ellsberg Is Still Thinking About the Papers He Didn’t Get to Leak
by Andrew Rice
It turns out that Ellsberg also took many thousands of pages of documents pertaining to another subject: nuclear war.
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SOURCE: The Daily Beast
11-7-17
Spielberg to debut movie about the Washington Post and the Pentagon Papers
The movie will be released in December.
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SOURCE: VICE News
8-4-17
Video of the Week: Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers Talks About Leaks
VICE News examines the Trump administration’s war on leakers, with the Pentagon Papers whistleblower.
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Why Lawyers on both Sides of the Immigration Ban Should Be Studying the Pentagon Papers Case
by Emma Long
One lesson: The courts have a role to play even in cases involving national security.
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SOURCE: USA Today
8-31-16
CIA director misled FBI about how agency spied on Pentagon Papers leaker
CIA Director Richard Helms misled the FBI in June 1972 to cover up his agency's role in helping to smear the reputation of Daniel Ellsberg, the man who leaked a secret history of the Vietnam War to the press, a newly released CIA document shows.
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
5-31-15
The Secret Origins of the CIA’s Torture Program and the Forgotten Man Who Tried to Expose It
by Barbara Myers
Anthony Russo, the “other conspirator” of the Pentagon Papers, shouldn't be left in history’s trash bin.
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