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'We're going to publish': An oral history of the Pentagon Papers

By The New York Times
New York Times·
38 mins to read
'We're going to publish': An oral history of the Pentagon Papers
The New York Times resumed publication of its series of articles based on the secret Pentagon papers in its July 1, 1971 edition, after it was given the green light by the US Supreme Court. Photo / AP

On October 1, 1969, Daniel Ellsberg walked out of the RAND Corp. offices, where he worked as a Defense Department consultant, into the temperate evening air of Santa Monica, California. In his briefcase was part of a classified government study that chronicled 22 years of failed United States involvement in

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