Pentagon Papers
Type
Definition
Week
Week 4
Course
LA 50: Constitutional Law
Definition
Officially titled Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force is a United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. Released by Daniel Ellsberg, who had worked on the study; they were first brought to the attention of the public on the front page of The New York Times in 1971. A 1996 article in The New York Times said that the Pentagon Papers had demonstrated, among other things, that the Johnson Administration had "systematically lied, not only to the public but also to Congress."