The Pentagon Papers: A Historic Leak that Changed America

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The Pentagon Papers: A Historic Leak that Changed America

The Pentagon Papers, officially titled “Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force,” were a top-secret Department of Defense study of U.S. political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. The documents were leaked in 1971 by Daniel Ellsberg, a former military analyst, and published by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other newspapers. The revelations exposed the U.S. government’s deceptive practices in escalating the Vietnam War, leading to a significant erosion of public trust in the government and altering the course of American history.

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