Pentagon Papers
Records: 8,292
Complete: 100%Originally leaked in 1971 to the NY Times and other papers by Daniel Ellsberg, a contributor to the top-secret Vietnam Study Task Force, the "Pentagon Papers" created controversy within the government by showing that the Johnson Administration had consistently lied to Congress regarding the U.S. policy in Vietnam. Now, for the first time, the full 7,000-page report is available online.
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Source Information
Fold3, Pentagon Papers ( : accessed February 9, 2023), database and images,
- Publication Title
- Pentagon Papers
- Total Records
- 8,292 Complete: 100%
- Content Source
The National Archives
- Publication Number
- n/a
- Record Group
- 330
- Published on Fold3
- 11 Jul 2011
- Last Updated
- 13 Jul 2011
- Description
- The top-secret Pentagon Papers, published by the New York Times in 1971, revealed to the American public damaging insights into the U.S. policy in Vietnam, 1940-1968.