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☆ Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers Source, Had Uneasy Relationship With The Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Benjamin Mullin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The relationship between The New York Times and its most famous source, Daniel Ellsberg, reads like a thriller, replete with clandestine meetings, top secret documents and a war raging in the background. And the 1971 publication of the documents, which became known as the Pentagon Papers, burnished The Times’s reputation as a government watchdog. Yet Mr. Ellsberg had conflicted feelings about The Times. Mr. Ellsberg was happy with the prominent coverage The Times gave the Pentagon Papers — “their courage in doing that and the risks they undertook” — Mr. Ellsberg’s son Robert said in an interview. But the younger Mr. Ellsberg said his father “had some regrets and resentment about the way he felt he’d been treated, which he felt was very unnecessary.”

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☆ How Daniel Ellsberg, who died at 92, went from being a disillusioned member of the government-military elite to a hero of anti-war movements
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +16 min

Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower behind the Pentagon Papers, died at 92, his family said Friday. David Halberstam, the late author and Vietnam War correspondent who had known Ellsberg since both were posted overseas, would describe him as no ordinary convert. "Without Nixon's obsession with me, he would have stayed in office," Ellsberg told The Associated Press in 1999. Ellsberg's story was depicted in the 2009 documentary "The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers." He and Marx wedded in 1970, the year before the Pentagon Papers were made public.

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Associated PressGreenfield We began writing drafts, and the first drafts were the Pentagon Papers often mixed up with the writers’ own past reporting and commentary. If this is going to be called the Pentagon Papers, it can’t be the Pentagon Papers and The New York Times Papers.” So we came up with a system. So my job became to verify or discredit information in the Pentagon Papers. Who knows what goes on in hotel rooms in Manhattan?” We were just doing another strange thing in a hotel room in Manhattan. Amster I think it was Al who said the most impressive thing about the Pentagon Papers was that no one leaked anything.

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☆ How Neil Sheehan Got the Pentagon Papers
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-07 | by ( Janny Scott | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

But when Mr. Sheehan arrived in Cambridge intending to collect the documents, he recalled, Mr. Ellsberg had changed his mind. And he didn’t have a politician yet to protect him.”He was, Mr. Sheehan said, “totally conflicted.”Mr. Ellsberg was also taking serious risks, Mr. Sheehan said. “There’s no way The Times can protect this guy,” Mr. Sheehan remembered thinking. His ostensibly secret source had “left tracks on the ceiling, on the walls, everywhere,” he said. “Sooner or later, I was afraid he was going to run into a politician who’d go right to the Justice Department,” Mr. Sheehan said.

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☆ Supreme Court Allows Publication of Pentagon Papers - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2016-06-30 | by ( David W. Dunlap | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Joyful editors in New York ordered the immediate resumption of publication, which had been on pause since June 15, under court order. The Times had managed to print three installments of the series, which it called the “Vietnam Archive,” before the government effectively shut it down, leaving much of the exposé unpublished. Credit... Barton Silverman/The New York TimesWhat distinguished the Pentagon Papers was that The Times was not only providing interpretive articles, but also presenting the documents themselves, which had been leaked by Daniel Ellsberg, a military analyst who had worked on the history. These included cablegrams, memorandums, drafts of policy papers, instructions, transcripts and the like. “The documents are the written words of the men who set the armies in motion and launched the warplanes,” Neil Sheehan, the chief reporter of the series, said.

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