![]() ![]() ![]() in 1967, convinced that the military strategy was doomed to fail and increasingly disenchanted with the war. He saw villages that had been burned because Viet Cong had slept there for a night. State Department, getting a first-hand look at the war. In his book-lined living room, Ellsberg reprised the story of how he became, as Henry Kissinger once put it, “the most dangerous man in America.” During the mid-1960s, Ellsberg, a former Marine Corps officer with a PhD in economics from Harvard, was in Vietnam, working for the U.S. The White House “plumbers” (so named because they were formed to plug leaks, or create them) were after Ellsberg’s file, hoping to find information to be used against him. Howard Hunt broke into the office and crowbarred open the drawers. On September 3, 1971, three men led by former CIA agent E. ![]() ![]() The cabinet once stood in the Los Angeles office of Lewis Fielding, Ellsberg’s psychoanalyst. In particular, I was inquiring about a battered but otherwise seemingly ordinary four-drawer file cabinet, which sits today at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History (NMAH). Recently, I met with Daniel Ellsberg, now 81, at his house in the hills above Berkeley, California, to get the ultimate insider’s inside account of exposing deception by successive administrations about Vietnam, from the man who is arguably the nation’s most important whistleblower. ![]()
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