Daniel Ellsberg dies at 92. He leaked the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Vietnam War history, in 1971. The former Defense Department official hoped giving newspapers the 7,000-page document would end the conflict.
The family confirmed his death in a statement. Mr. Ellsberg announced in an email to friends and supporters on March 1 that he had pancreatic cancer and had declined chemotherapy. Whatever time he had left, he said, would be spent giving talks and interviews about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the perils of nuclear war and the importance of First Amendment protections.
He also continued to release secret government documents, including files about nuclear war that he had copied while working on the military’s “mutually assured destruction” strategy during the Cold War, around the same time he leaked the study that made him perhaps the most famous whistleblower in American history.
Hoping to hasten the end of the war, Mr. Ellsberg contacted several U.S. senators and tried to share the documents through official channels. When he found no takers, he contacted New York Times reporter, leading to the publication of the first story about the history on June 13, 1971, running above the fold on the front page of the Times.
declared a mistrial in 1973, citing governmental misconduct so severe as to “offend the sense of justice.”Among other revelations, the judge had learned of a White House-directed burglary of Mr. Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office and had seen evidence of illegal wiretapping against Mr. Ellsberg. He also reported that in the midst of the trial, he had been offered a job as FBI director by one of President Richard M.
By then he had joined Rand, linking up with like-minded economists who were trying to apply their game-theory research to the Cold War. Mr. Ellsberg was known as a brilliant theorist, with a paradox in decision theory named for him, but his estranged colleagues later told Wells that he seemed unable to complete his assignments.
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