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	Pentagon Papers - MSN Encarta
		Pentagon Papers, top-secret study, revealed to the public in 1971, that detailed government deceptions about United States policy in Vietnam dating back to the administration of President Harry Truman (1945-1953).
		The publication of the Pentagon Papers by the New York Times in 1971 led to a crucial Supreme Court ruling on freedom of the press and fueled growing opposition to the Vietnam War (1959-1975).
		The papers did not discuss any events that took place during the Nixon administration, but national security adviser Henry Kissinger convinced Nixon that the release of the papers would make the administration look weak.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761585450/Pentagon_Papers.html (300 words)

	CJR - Books - A History of the Pentagon Papers, by David Rudenstine
		It's been twenty-five years since the government sued to block publication of the "Pentagon Papers," the government's top-secret history of the Vietnam War, and while the issues remain as crucial as ever, time has lessened the angers and fears of that moment, and has healed, as the clich goes, most of the wounds.
		I read the first installment of the Pentagon Papers at the Post Exchange at Camp Drum, New York, where I was dodging not only Vietnam but as much as I could of all military life by hiding out in an armored unit of the Vermont National Guard.
		Sanford Ungar's 1972 book was called The Papers and the Papers, and focused a good deal on the newspapers as institutions and on the mindsets of the reporters and editors involved.
	archives.cjr.org /year/96/4/books-pentagon.asp (1073 words)

	The presses must roll - Salon
		The papers, drawn from top-secret government files, reveal embarrassing things about the administration's conduct of the war, including the fact that U.S. officials knew that many of the official reasons given to support the war were false.
		The Pentagon Papers case was a landmark ruling for press freedom and a historic rebuke of government's attempt to suppress it.
		The Pentagon Papers were leaked to the New York Times and the Washington Post by a former hawk turned dove, Daniel Ellsberg, who had worked on the study for the RAND Corp. Ellsberg faced 115 years in prison for his act.
	dir.salon.com /story/opinion/freedom/2003/07/01/pentagon_papers/index.html (1271 words)

	Pentagon Papers Wizards of Media OZ
		Today, it would be pleasant to look back on publication of the Pentagon Papers as a turning point for media coverage of the U.S. military.
		However, instead of carrying forward the honorable legacy of the Pentagon Papers battle, America's most powerful news outlets have waved the journalistic white flag.
		For the man who'd given the Pentagon Papers to the press, the fall of 1990 felt an awful lot like the fall of 1964.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Media/PentagonPapers_WMOZ.html (662 words)

	Pentagon Papers: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Pentagon Papers were leaked in 1971 by Department of Defense worker Daniel Ellsberg Daniel Ellsberg quick summary:
		Daniel ellsberg (born april 7, 1931) is a former military analyst who precipitated a national uproar in 1971 when he released the pentagon papers,...
		The dodgy dossier was a briefing paper issued to journalists by the british prime ministers director of communications and strategy alastair campbell, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pe/pentagon_papers.htm (1616 words)

	Why War? Keywords: Pentagon Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The mythical parallel, drawn by intellectuals as diverse as Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and Iraq war-hawk, neo-conservative godfathe...
		Defense Department history of the Vietnam War in what became known as the Pentagon Papers case.
		Like aspiring Daniel Ellsbergs with their would-be Pentagon Papers, they posted the files on the Internet, declaring the act a form of electr...
	www.why-war.com /encyclopedia/state_document/pentagon_papers (353 words)

	Inside the Pentagon Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		At the core of Papers are transcripts and interviews with persons in government, the media and the legal community who in one way or another were involved in the preparation and eventual publication, in 1971, of what became known as the Pentagon Papers.
		The 1971 leak of the Pentagon Papers to the media was the catalyst behind the Nixon administration’s decision to set up the "Plumbers," which led to the Watergate burglary and, ultimately, the resignation of President Nixon.
		Focusing on the "back story" of the Pentagon Papers and the resulting court cases, it draws upon a wealth of oral history and previously classified documents to show the consequences of leak and litigation both for the Vietnam War and for American history.
	www.vva.org /whatsnew/pentagon_papers.htm (2131 words)

	Pentagon Papers whistle-blower Daniel Ellsberg speaks at Blair - Silver Chips Online
		Daniel Ellsberg spoke about the Pentagon Papers, his personal experiences in the Vietnam War and his opinion of the war on Iraq to over 75 Blazers during fourth period yesterday, May 27.
		Ellsberg was able to parallel his releasing of the Pentagon Papers with the recent release of pictures of Iraqi prisoners being tortured by American soldiers.
		When he released the top-secret Pentagon Papers to the press all of his friends disappeared, even the ones who agreed with his decision.
	silverchips.mbhs.edu /inside.php?sid=3608 (1063 words)

	The new Pentagon papers
		From May 2002 until February 2003, I observed firsthand the formation of the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans and watched the latter stages of the neoconservative capture of the policy-intelligence nexus in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq.
		In 2001, the research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute was assigned to the Pentagon, then moved to the Department of State to work as deputy for the hard-line conservative undersecretary John Bolton, then to the National Security Council, and now is lodged in the office of the vice president.
		The facts we should have used to base our papers on were already being produced by the intelligence agencies, and the war planning was already done by the combatant command staff with some help from the Joint Staff.
	fairuse.1accesshost.com /news1/kwiatkowski.html (4498 words)

	WashingtonPost.com: The Day the Presses Stopped: A History of the Pentagon Papers Case
		The precise reasons McNamara commissioned the Pentagon Papers remain uncertain and continue to be a subject of controversy.
		In fact the project staff for the Pentagon Papers encountered exactly such problems: they were far less successful in locating key documents prepared during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations than in collecting documents from later periods.
		In their view the Papers contained an extraordinary amount of information that was properly classified top secret, that could seriously harm the national security if prematurely disclosed, and that was politically sensitive.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/daythepr.htm (8331 words)

	Tonkin recordings/Pentagon papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Officially titled United States - Vietnam Relations, 1945-1967, the Pentagon Papers were compiled in the Department of Defense to document US involvement in the Vietnam conflict.
		While the papers themselves revealed few new secrets about US involvement in the war, their publication undoubtedly contributed to increased opposition to the war and public distrust of the government.
		While the new material is a small fraction of the entire Pentagon Papers, its release marks a significant milestone in the history of this controversial and significant study.
	www.lbjlib.utexas.edu /johnson/Press.hom/tonkinpentagonpapers.shtm (464 words)

	The Day the Presses Stopped: A History of the Pentagon Papers Case
		When it was complete, the study, which came to be called the Pentagon Papers, was 47 volumes, four of which were a diplomatic history that could have been useful in negotiations and that were treated at the time as highly sensitive (p.
		The Pentagon Papers case has generally been understood to have been part of the Nixon administration’s obsession with secrecy and expansion of executive privilege.
		Furthermore, the Pentagon Papers, while an important synthesis of material, were dense and long, written in academic prose.
	www.unt.edu /lpbr/subpages/reviews/rudenst.htm (1721 words)

	AllRefer.com - Pentagon Papers (U.S. History) - Encyclopedia
		Pentagon Papers, government study of U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia.
		The government indicted (1971) Daniel Ellsberg, a former government employee who made the Pentagon Papers available to the New York Times, and Anthony J. Russo on charges of espionage, theft, and conspiracy.
		See the New York Times ed., The Pentagon Papers (1971); S. Ungar, The Papers and the Papers (1972); D. Rudenstine, The Day the Presses Stopped (1997).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/PentPap.html (361 words)

	The Pentagon Papers Case (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1971, the Pentagon Papers -- the Defense Department's top-secret study of the growth of United States military involvement in Vietnam -- were leaked by a government official to The New York Times.
		The publication of the Pentagon Papers helped fuel the debate over the wisdom of U.S. involvement in Vietnam; however, most observers agree that the publication of the papers did not do injury to the national security of the United States.
		The Pentagon Papers case proves the value of the First Amendment, says Jim Goodale, general counsel to The New York Times during the time of this landmark decision.
	usinfo.state.gov /journals/itdhr/0297/ijde/goodsb1.htm (371 words)

	Q-and-A with Daniel Ellsberg (1999): Pentagon Papers
		My main reason for revealing the historical studies in the Pentagon Papers was to reveal patterns of official deception about plans for escalation that would lend credibility to my claims that Nixon was about to follow in the footsteps of his predecessors.
		Later they were among the documents in the Pentagon Papers that I copied and gave to the Senate in 1969 and later to the newspapers in 1971.
		Certainly, I think the overwhelming majority of Americans, after they became aware of the content of the Pentagon Papers, felt that they had had a right to that information, that it had been wrongfully withheld from them, and that it was relevant to their current political decisions as citizens.
	globetrotter.berkeley.edu /people/Ellsberg/ells.QA99.leak.html (796 words)

	AllPolitics - Back in TIME for June 28, 1971
		The proliferation of papers, the cabled requests for clarification, the briskness of language but not of logic, convey an impression of harassed men, thinking and writing too quickly and sometimes being mystified at the enemy's refusal to conform to official projections.
		The papers were gathered mainly at the Pentagon by researchers who were given full cooperation but had to specify what they wanted to see; they could not browse freely through files of the Joint Chiefs.
		The revelations of the Pentagon papers angered war critics on Capitol Hill, who claimed vindication for their long-held feeling that Congress had been misled by the Executive Branch.
	www.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/1996/analysis/back.time/9606/28/index.shtml (7531 words)

	Pentagon Papers, Gravel Edition, Summary and Chapter I
		Moreover, the President of the United States, especially distressed at the Vichy "sell-out" to Japan in Indochina, often cited French rule there as a flagrant example of onerous and exploitative colonialism, and talked of his determination to turn Indochina over to an international trusteeship after the war.
		Nobody thinks anything of it if you do this with a paper draft; but if you do it with conversation, people say that you have changed your mind, that "you never knew where you have him," and so on.
		Volume 2, Chapter 4, of the Pentagon Papers, "The Overthrow of Ngo Dinh Diem, May-November, 1963," pp.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/pentagon/pent1.html (4691 words)

	The Pentagon Papers Case
		Next to that picture, on the right, was the headline over Neil Sheehan’s first story on the Pentagon Papers, “Vietnam Archive: Pentagon Study Traces 3 Decades of Growing U.S. Involvement.” Nixon did not read the story (so he says on tape in his 12:18 p.m.
		The court material covers the end of the Pentagon Papers case.
		But it is on the beginning of the case that we now have genuinely new evidence, in the form of the Nixon tapes declassified earlier this year pursuant to the lawsuit by University of Wisconsin historian Stanley Kutler and the Public Citizen Litigation Group.
	www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB48 (605 words)

	The Pentagon Papers \| PopMatters Television Review
		The Pentagon Papers recalls these particulars in a specific framework, namely, by emphasizing the heroism of Daniel Ellsberg (played by James Spader in a curly, mod-style wig), the Harvard Law graduate and ex-Marine who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971.
		Eventually, Dan does deliver the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times' Neil Sheehan (Jonas Chernick), determined to "get in the way of the bombing and the killing" despite the risk that he will be charged with treason.
		In The Pentagon Papers, written by Jason Horwitch (Joe and Max) and directed by Rod Holcomb (The Education of Max Bickford, China Beach), Ellsberg is mostly admirable and his enemies are wholly odious, from the faceless Nixon to the creepy John Mitchell (Sean McCann), Haldeman, and Erlichman (Richard Fitzpatrick).
	www.popmatters.com /tv/reviews/p/pentagon-papers.shtml (2175 words)

	UUs & the News: The Pentagon Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Robert N. West, UUA President, and Sentator Mike Gravel (D-Alaska) hold a press conference on Nov. 5, 1971 concerning Beacon Press' publication of "The Pentagon Papers" and ongoing harassment of the UUA by the FBI.
		We had this big stack of papers, and it was obvious that it would be a very expensive job - to set the type, print the pages, bind the book, was a big job, and too expensive for us.
		The Pentagon Papers were collected and prepared for us by a responsible guy from Alaska who was well known, who was a member of our government (ed.
	www.uua.org /news/2002/civil/pentagon.html (1537 words)

	The New York Review of Books: More Than Fit to Print
		In an affidavit in 1975 he said the Pentagon Papers were "no skin off my back"—because they stopped their history in 1968, before he took office.
		Public disclosure of the Pentagon Papers challenged the core of a president's power: his role in foreign and national security affairs.
		He argued that though the papers' history stopped on March 31, 1968, there were passages that could have done some injury to national security in 1971.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/17890 (4408 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Live Online
		In "Secrets: a Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers," author and activist Daniel Ellsberg discusses how and why he decided to leak 7,000 photocopied pages of top-secret material on America's war in Vietnam to the press.
		I can only guess how detrimental your release of the pentagon papers was to your life, professional and otherwise.
		A few weeks after you gave the Pentagon Papers to the NYT and Post, he and I were having lunch in the restaurant directly across from his Beverly Hills office.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/liveonline/02/special/books/sp_books_ellsberg101502.html (2806 words)

	Circulars: UPI: Pentagon Papers Leaker Seeks Leaks on Iraq
		WASHINGTON -- Daniel Ellsberg, who in 1971 leaked the Pentagon Papers, on Tuesday called on government officials to leak documents to Congress and the press showing the Bush administration is lying in building its case against Saddam Hussein.
		Ellsberg did not leak the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times until 1971, although he says he had information in the mid-1960s that he now wishes he had leaked then.
		Ellsberg said this story on spying at the United Nations is potentially more significant than the Pentagon Papers because it comes before a war has begun and it shows a desperate Bush administration.
	www.arras.net /circulars/archives/000311.html (1009 words)

	Pentagon Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Daniel Ellsberg¡¯s Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers has many facets, which taken together make for a very stimulating and liberating narrative.
		The release of the Pentagon Papers was seen by others in my generation as one of the greatest acts of heroism imaginable.
		The Pentagon Papers As Published by the New York Times: The Secret History of the Vietnam War
	www.freeglossary.com /Pentagon_Papers (644 words)

	Pentagon Papers DVD at Video Universe
		The made-for-cable film is based on Ellsberg's biography, tracking his actions from his early days as a soldier to his position as military analyst for the Pentagon, where he discovers a top-secret document chronicling the government's deliberate misinformation about the Gulf of Tonkin incident that led to the Vietnam War.
		Ellsberg suffers through a crisis of conscience as he comes to grips with the importance of the papers and debates whether or not to leak them to the New York Times--a move that could be punishable as treason.
		Directed by Rod Holcomb, THE PENTAGON PAPERS is a thrilling recreation of a pivotal moment in American history when citizens were forced to confront the idea that their own government had deceived them.
	www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/movie/pid/6581469/a/Pentagon+Papers.htm (475 words)

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