Washington, Jun 16 (EFE).- Daniel Ellsberg, a military analyst who leaked the account of United States involvement in Vietnam – which became known as the Pentagon Papers – to the press in 1971, died Friday, his family said. He was 92.
“My dear father, Daniel Ellsberg, died this morning June 16 at 1:24 a.m., four months after his diagnosis with pancreatic cancer. His family surrounded him as he took his last breath. He had no pain and died peacefully at home,” son Robert Ellsberg said on Twitter.
Daniel Ellsberg, a US Marine Corps veteran with a doctorate in economics from Harvard University, worked for the RAND Corporation, a think-tank and research outfit, before joining the Defense Department in the early 1960s.
In his capacity as an adviser to Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, Ellsberg spent 18 months in Vietnam evaluating the US military’s civilian pacification program.
While he told McNamara on his return that the war was unwinnable, the secretary later tasked Ellsberg and 35 other analysts with creating a historical record of the conflict in Vietnam.
Ellsberg went back to RAND in 1968, but he retained his top-secret security clearance and had access to the completed 47-volume, 7,000-page Pentagon study, which showed that successive US administrations had systematically lied to the American public.
He and RAND colleague Anthony J. Russo Jr. photocopied the history and Ellsberg shared portions of the study with congressional critics of the war, including Sen. J....
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