Editors of the online newspaper Infosperber
In the midst of the Vietnam War in 1971, Daniel Ellsberg had leaked secret military papers to the New York Times and the Washington Post. They became known as the “Pentagon Papers.” The documents revealed that the U.S. government under Lyndon B. Johnson had systematically lied to both the public and Congress about the Vietnam War for years. After leaking the 7,000-page “Pentagon Papers,” Ellsberg faced numerous charges in 1971, including charges under the Espionage Act of 1917. But the charges were dropped in 1973 because of government misconduct.
It was not until 2021 that Ellsberg revealed that the U.S. government had drawn up plans to attack China with nuclear weapons during a 1958 crisis in the Taiwan Strait.
Now 91, Ellsberg said he is suffering from a fatal cancer of the pancreas. On March 24, he gave what must have been his last interview to the New York Times. Infosperber documents some of his statements.
“I am leaving a world that is in a terrible state, in every sense of the word. We have not been this close to nuclear war since the Cuban Missile Crisis. Nor do I believe the world can cope with the climate crisis. We’ve known sparingly since the 2016 Paris Agreement that the U.S. must cut its emissions in half by 2030. That’s not going to happen.
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