The True Story Behind The Pentagon Papers
The True Story Behind The Pentagon Papers Shutterstock By Richard Milner/Jan. 8, 2021 9:04 am EDT A researcher blows the whistle on decades worth of covert U.S. government dealings to sow warfare in Indochina (the Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos peninsula) by passing along classified, photocopied documents to a New York Times journalist. That journalist releases his informant's story without consent — a fact revealed only as recently as January 7, 2021, after the journalist passed away — and when President Nixon illegally retaliates, leads to one of the biggest scandals in...