The American daniel ellsbergwho in 1971 leaked confidential documents about the planning of the war in Vietnam, in a case known as the “Pentagon Papers,” died Friday at the age of 92, his family announced in a press release. “He died of pancreatic cancer, which was diagnosed on February 17. He did not suffer any pain and was surrounded by his loving family,” his wife and children said.
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Ellsberg had already announced in March that he was suffering from incurable cancer and had indicated that he only had “three to six months to live.” Former military analyst Daniel Ellsberg became famous in the early 1970s after filtering 7,000 classified documentswhich revealed that various US governments had lied to the public about the Vietnam War (1955-1975).
These documents revealed in particular that, contrary to the assertions of several senior US officials, the United States could not win the Vietnam War and that Washington had nevertheless played the card of a military escalation. Those revelations helped change American public opinion on the issue.