The "Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force" (otherwise known as the Pentagon Papers) was commissioned by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in 1967. Portions of the report were to the press in June 1971, but publications of the report that resulted from these leaks were incomplete and low-quality. Today, on the 40th anniversary of the leak to the press, the National Archives and the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon Presidential Libraries, have released the complete Pentagon Papers report: 48 boxes of about 7,000 declassified pages, with 34% of the report becoming available for the first time.
Want to read them? The PDFs are available here. Happy reading!
At your service,
Cheryl
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