THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE VIETNAM WAR
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Snowden Papers
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Watergate Papers
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Pentagon Papers
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Gulf of Tonkin Papers
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Detailed explanation-1: -Pentagon Papers, papers that contain a history of the U.S. role in Indochina from World War II until May 1968 and that were commissioned in 1967 by U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Pentagon Papers revealed that the United States had expanded its war with the bombing of Cambodia and Laos, coastal raids on North Vietnam, and Marine Corps attacks, none of which had been reported by the American media.
Detailed explanation-3: -Officially titled “History of U.S. Decision-Making in Vietnam, 1945–68, ” the Pentagon Papers are a study of the origins and development of the Vietnam War.
Detailed explanation-4: -Believing that the war was unwinnable and immoral, Ellsberg and his co-defendant Anthony Russo secretly copied the 7000-page report and provided it to the New York Times and Washington Post. After articles about the papers were published, Ellsberg surrendered to the authorities on June 28, 1971.