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Secrets

Pages
512
Published
2002
Language
English

Synopsis

In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg made headlines by leaking the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret study of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. This memoir details his two years as a State Department observer in Vietnam and his decision to expose the deceptions that shaped American foreign policy. It's a story about one man's moral awakening and a look at America during a critical period.

About the author

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Daniel Ellsberg

Daniel Ellsberg (born April 7, 1931) is an American economist, activist and former United States military analyst who, while employed by the RAND Corporation, precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of the U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers. On January 3, 1973, Ellsberg was charged under the Espionage Act of 1917 alo...