Daniel Ellsberg (1931–2023) was an American military analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers—a classified study of US decision-making in Vietnam—to the press in 1971, in the most consequential act of national security whistleblowing in American history.
Pentagon Papers leak exposed systematic government deception about Vietnam; established the legal and moral precedent for national security whistleblowing.
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