An American military analyst who leaked the ‘Pentagon Papers’ on the Vietnam War and exposed US government lies has died.
Ellsberg in March emailed his ‘dear friends and supporters’ to reveal that he had been diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer and had declined to undergo chemotherapy. He said he had an estimated three to six months to live.
In 1971, Ellsberg disclosed volumes of top-secret history of American deceit and lies around the Vietnam War, that became known as the Pentagon Papers. The 7,000 pages of papers revealed that US presidents bypassed Congress, overstepped their presidential authority and misled the public on the controversial war.
The US government then embarked on an illegal campaign to discredit Ellsberg and stop the leaks. The series of crimes came to be known as the Watergate scandal and prompted President Richard Nixon to resign in 1974.
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