Daniel Ellsberg
American whistleblower (1931-2023) · United States · Academics · Died at 92
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Something wrong?Daniel Ellsberg was an American political activist, economist, and United States military analyst.
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Ellsberg, speaking at a press conference, New York City, 1972
Fielding's filing cabinet, with break-in marks, on display at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Protesting with anti-war group Code Pink in 2006
Ellsberg speaking in 2008
Ellsberg with Robert Rosenthal in 2008
At San Francisco Pride Parade 2013
Ellsberg in 2020On YouTube
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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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