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12/14/2010
Can Government Employees Read the Pentagon Papers?
http://nsarchive.wordpress.com/2010/12/14/can-government-employees-read-the-pentagon-papers/
Those who have been following the wikileaks affair will have
noticed the recent prominence of Dan Ellsberg, who leaked the
Pentagon Papers in 1971. Ellsberg, in many respects, was a
predecessor to wikileaks, and has provided insightful commentary
regarding the current situation. So what has happened to the 43
volumes that Ellsberg leaked 39 years ago?
You might be dismayed to learn that the Pentagon Papers are still
classified as TOP SECRET!
This is despite the fact that The Pentagon Papers have long been in
the public domain. Indeed, US government historians use them in
official accounts of the Vietnam War and they are referenced and
republished in official US government records, such as Foreign
Relations of the United States. Senator Mike Gravel even entered
them into the Congressional Record!
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