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Pentagon papers to be officially released in June

SOURCE: BOINGBOING • 2011-05-12
TOPICS: Presidency Of Richard Nixon • Politics • Military • United States • Vietnam War • Freedom Of Expression • Pentagon Papers • Daniel Ellsberg • The Pentagon

The Pentagon Papers will be officially released in June at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, 40 years after Daniel Ellsberg famously leaked the documents in 1971. Steven Aftergood in Secrecy News reports: The National Archives announced this week that it has identified, inventoried, and prepared for public access the Vietnam Task Force study, United States-Vietnam Relations 1945-1967, informally known as 'the Pentagon Papers'. As a result, 3.7 cubic feet of previously restricted textua... read more »

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