The Pentagon Papers, ready at a click
Rapid reading the first hundred pages of the Pentagon Papers to the conclusion that the thirty analysts who drafted 40 years ago knew from the beginning, they produced a document that would be a hornet's nest, would produce much immediate controversy controversy if someone revealed to the press.
Americans can now fully access to 7,000 pages of "encyclopedic collection and objective of our involvement in Vietnam since the Second World War to 1967" as ordered by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, who made his advisors.
"Work like ants," he said to review all documents were in possession of the White House, CIA, State Department, Pentagon and other government agencies on Vietnam. With stamped "top secret" in every file, so documents are kept for four decades in the direction of the Network of the National Archives a simple click and many minutes due to the volume for files on your computer.
And it offers almost nothing new to Daniel Ellsberg, the analyst who gave to The New York Times, did not draw in his clothes every day of his office, copied by night and returned home the next morning.
The Pentagon Papers show that the administrations of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, and their predecessors, increased U.S. involvement in Indochina in secret when, in public, downplaying the involvement and staff talked to reduce, limit and deny operations supporting the government of South Vietnam.
"If Richard Nixon had not been determined to prohibit its publication people would not have read with much interest," Ellsberg calls ... Nixon was very happy to know that the lies of his Democratic predecessors, but was furious because an official of his government would dare to hand over official secrets Press.
And why Ellsberg became a marked man and sent him to a group of specialists, plumbers, getting into his psychiatrist's office in September 1971. Months later, plumbers, entered the Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate building in Washington and the Pentagon Papers, Nixon ceased to worry.
