The Pentagon Papers revealed long-time US government doubts and deceit about the Vietnam War - and are one of the most famous leaks in history.
The Pentagon Papers had been commissioned by then defense secretary Robert McNamara in 1967 - and Pentagon officials had secretly been putting together a 7,000-page report covering US involvement in Vietnam from 1945 through 1967.The leaker's identity became a national guessing game.
With the FBI in pursuit, he turned himself in to authorities in Boston - becoming a hero to the anti-war movement and a traitor to the war's supporters.
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