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the Pentagon Papers
Definition
- The Pentagon Papers, a 7,000-page classified study commissioned by U.S. Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara in 1967, detailed U.S. involvement in Vietnam by tracing policies and decision making in Indochina from the 1940s to 1968. The Pentagon Papers became public knowledge on June 13, 1971, with the debut of a series of articles in The New York Times by journalists Neil Sheehan and Hedrick Smith. [Source: Encyclopedia of Political Communication; Pentagon Papers, the]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/the_Pentagon_Papers
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