Secrets (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Daniel Ellsberg
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: August, 1964, to May, 1973
- Setting: The United States and South Vietnam
- Principal Characters: Daniel Ellsberg, Henry Kissinger, Robert S. McNamara, John T. McNaughton, Richard Milhous Nixon
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Politics, Twentieth century, Vietnam War, War, Bombs, Presidents, Southeast Asia, Intelligence service, Vietnam or Vietnamese people, Statesmen, Cambodia or Cambodians, Military art or science
- Locales: United States, South Vietnam
On the evening of October 1, 1969, Daniel Ellsberg smuggled a briefcase full of top secret documents past RAND Corporation security guards and was up all night duplicating parts of the seven-thousand-page Defense Department study subsequently known as the Pentagon Papers. He had crossed his private rubicon from loyalist to whistleblower, or worse (in the eyes of some), traitor. Five years and two months previously, on his first full day at the Pentagon, the Tonkin Gulf incident was unfolding in the South China Sea off the coast of North Vietnam. The thirty- three-year-old former marine,...
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