Ellsberg, Daniel
Ellsberg, Daniel (1931–), military analyst, nonviolent activist.Ellsberg graduated from Harvard in 1952, served as a Marine infantry commander (1953–56), then returned to Harvard for his Ph.D. An expert on crisis decision making at the Rand Corporation think tank, he was a consultant on nuclear weapons to the Pentagon and Kennedy White House, notably in the Cuban Missile Crisis. Early in the Vietnam War (1964–65), he was special assistant to the assistant secretary of defense responsible for Vietnam policy. He spent two years in South Vietnam as a State Department adviser (1965–67), then rejoined Rand and contributed to the Pentagon's internal classified history of the war ordered by Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara.
In October 1969, Ellsberg tried to release the secret...
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