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The New York Times
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The standard story presents the Pentagon Papers as a clear-cut case of heroic whistleblowing: Daniel Ellsberg, a RAND Corporation analyst and former Marine, leaked the 7,000-page classified study to The New York Times and Washington Post in 1971, exposing decades of lies about Vietnam.
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Daniel Ellsberg
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