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The military analyst who helped expose the deception and devastation of the Vietnam War was recently diagnosed with "inoperable pancreatic cancer"

By Bill Trott WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Daniel Ellsberg, the U.S. military analyst whose change of heart on the Vietnam War led him to leak the classified...

By Bill Trott WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Daniel Ellsberg, the U.S. military analyst whose change of heart on the Vietnam War led him to leak the classified...

Daniel Ellsberg, the history-making whistleblower who by leaking the Pentagon Papers revealed longtime government doubts and deceit about the Vietnam War and inspired acts of retaliation by President Richard Nixon that helped lead to his resignation, has died. He was 92. Ellsberg, who announced in February that he was terminally ill with pancreatic cancer, died Friday morning, according to a letter from his family released by a spokeswoman.

By Bill Trott WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Daniel Ellsberg, the U.S. military analyst whose change of heart on the Vietnam War led him to leak the classified "Pentagon Papers," revealing U.S. government deception about the war and setting off a major freedom-...

By Bill Trott WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Daniel Ellsberg, the U.S. military analyst whose change of heart on the Vietnam War led him to leak the classified...

Ellsberg, who served as a nuclear war planner, has been trying to sound the alarm about the threat of conflict for years

In this April interview with a longtime friend, Daniel Ellsberg, most widely known for leaking the Pentagon Papers, explains why he wanted to focus on his main concern in life, nuclear war. Ellsberg died today at age 92.

Deeply disturbed by the accounting of American deceit in Vietnam, he approached The New York Times. The disclosures that followed rocked the nation.

Fighter-turned-whistle-blower embodied the individual of conscience, answering only to his sense of right and wrong even if price was his own freedom