DANIEL ELLSBERG

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Daniel Ellsberg, PhD, (born April 7, 1931) is a former United States military analyst who, while employed by the RAND Corporation, precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of U.S.

government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York Times and other newspapers.