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Pentagon Papers

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Pentagon Papers

Top-secret US Defense Department report on the history of US involvement in the Vietnam War that was leaked to the New York Times by Defense Department employee Daniel Ellsberg in June 1971, fuelling the antiwar movement. President Richard Nixon tried to stop publication, but the Supreme Court ruled in favour of the press.
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