in the spotlight tonight, the national archives has declassified and released for the first time all 47 volumes of the mcnamara report on vietnam, now immortalized as the pentagon papers. the explosive top-secret report was painstakingly smuggled out and photo copied by a young defense analyst named daniel ellsberg who had become disillusioned with the vietnam war. >> in june of 1967, mcnamara ordered a comprehensive study within the pentagon on the history of u.s. involvement in vietnam. i began xeroxing the mcnamara study in the fall of 1969. at the end of the day, working at rand, i would put several volumes into my briefcase to take with me. walking past the security guard,
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