# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/daniel-ellsberg
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:48:30.330Z

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name: "Daniel Ellsberg"
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description: "Daniel Ellsberg was an American political activist, economist, and United States military analyst. While employed by the RAND Corporation, he 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, The Washington Post, and other newspapers."
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birthDate: "1931-04-07"
deathDate: "2023-06-16"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump