Daniel Ellsberg
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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- Born in
- Chicago
- Educated at
- Harvard UniversityHarvard CollegeCranbrook Educational CommunityCranbrook Schools
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- 🏆 Right Livelihood Award🏆 Norwin S. Yoffie Career Achievement Award🏆 Pillar award
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Joseph Alexander Kershaw
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Trending topics shown first"EVERY attack now made on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange was made against me and the release of the Pentagon Papers at the time."
"The question really arises is it a republic if you can keep it, question have we kept it? And the answer is no! No we have not kept it. Since 2001 we have in effect an elected monarchy. And ah, meanin…"
"I took that opportunity to tell him something that, er, I had long thought of telling somebody that was about to enter the world of really high secrecy. And I said, 'Henry, you're about to get a lot o…"
"Chelsea Manning is again acting heroically in the name of press freedom, and it’s a travesty that she has been sent back to jail for refusing to testify to a grand jury. An investigation into WikiLeak…"
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1931
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