USA, dead Ellsberg, the man who exposed the lies about Vietnam

Daniel Ellsberg, the man who in 1971 passed the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times, a series of secret Pentagon reports on US involvement in Vietnam between the end of World War II and 1967, has died. former marine and a military analyst at the RAND Corporation (one of the most important American research centers) who during the 1960s had begun to nourish feelings of opposition to the war.

He was 92 years old and last February, according to what his family communicated, he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He died at his home in Kensington, California.The "United States - Vietnam Relations, 1945 - 1967", subsequently renamed by the press "Pentagon Papers", had been commissioned by the Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara in 1967 and had been delivered to the US administration in 1968.

It was a study that showed that four administrations, from Truman to Johnson, had in fact lied to public opinion and had become more and more involved in a disastrous military campaign while hiding from the people and from Congress that the chances of victory were slim.