Daniel Ellsberg
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Categories: Vietnam War | Watergate
Daniel Ellsberg is a former American military analyst employed by the RAND Corporation who precipitated a national uproar in 1971 when he released xeroxed copies of the Pentagon Papers, the U.S. military's account of activities during the Vietnam War, to The New York Times. The release awakened the American people to how mcuh they had been deceived by their own government about the war.