Daniel Ellsberg

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Daniel Ellsberg PhD born April 7 1931 is a former United States military analyst who while employed by the RAND Corporation precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers a topsecret Pentagon study of US government decisionmaking in relation to the Vietnam War to The New York Times and other newspapers He was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 2006 Description above from the Wikipedia article Daniel Ellsberg licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia