The final portion of the secret study on the Vietnam War known euphemistically as the Pentagon Papers has been published by the Lyndon Johnson Library and is now online for everyone, historian and casual reader alike, to view. The Pentagon Papers constituted a top secret study of American relations with Vietnam dating from 1945 to 1967. The study revealed the bureaucratic and military bungling. ...more...
Complete Pentagon Papers released 40 years after leakThe complete Pentagon Papers were made available to the public on Monday, exactly 40 years after leaked portions of the top-secret report on U.S. involvement in Vietnam were first published by the New York Times. ...more...
A missing section of the Pentagon Papers, which were declassified yesterday, concludes that the United States got little in return for more than $2 billion in aid it sent to Vietnam in the 1950s, nearly 80 percent for security. ...more...
Pentagon Papers finally published, 40 years on
The Pentagon Papers, a US government report into the Vietnam War, were finally published in full, 40 years after embarrassing details of the document were leaked. ...more...
Video: Full Pentagon Papers declassified
A full 7,000 pages of The Pentagon Papers are now declassified and available for pubic viewing online. It was not so during the Vietnam War but one man was responsible for leaking many pages to the press. David Martin reports. ...more...
Pentagon Papers vs. WikiLeaks: Is Bradley Manning the new Ellsberg?
Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times, used the occasion of the papers' declassification on Monday to defend Pfc. Bradley Manning, accused in the WikiLeaks case. ...more...
Pentagon Papers declassified today. Will we learn any shocking new secrets?
The release 40 years ago of the Pentagon Papers, which showed how several presidential administrations had misled Americans about their intentions in Vietnam, was a historic moment. Now, people can read the report just as government officials themselves saw it. ...more...
40 years after leak, Pentagon Papers coming out
Forty years after the explosive leak of the Pentagon Papers, a secret government study chronicling deception and misadventure in U.S. conduct of the Vietnam War, the report is coming out in its entirety on Monday. ...more...
WikiLeaks Probe: Pentagon Papers Injustice Deja Vu
As we mark the 40th anniversary of the Pentagon Papers' publication, the Obama administration is doggedly trying to charge Julian Assange and WikiLeaks with conspiracy to commit espionage. Now, as then, it amounts to a misguided effort to criminalize journalism—and should fail, says James C. Goodale. ...more...
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