NEW YORK - Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower who leaked the “Pentagon Papers” about the Vietnam War - changing public perceptions of the conflict - died on Friday, his family announced. He was 92.
The leak was recounted in the 2017 Hollywood thriller The Post, which detailed the nail-biting behind-the-scenes story of the papers’ publication. “Hot chocolate, croissants, cake, poppyseed bagels, and lox gave him extra pleasure in these final months. Ellsberg was charged under America’s Espionage Act but the case ended in a mistrial in 1973 after illegal evidence gathering by the government came to light.Announcing his diagnosis on March 3, Ellsberg reflected on his history-changing actions.
“Yet in the end that action - in ways I could not have foreseen, due to Nixon’s illegal responses - did have an impact on shortening the war,” Ellsberg added.
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