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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 leaked the 47-volume, 7,000-page Defense Department study of the U.S. role in Indochina.
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Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower who leaked the "Pentagon Papers" about the Vietnam War -- changing public perceptions of the conflict -- died on Friday, his family announced.
Ellsberg was famous for exposing government deception on the US war in Vietnam and advocated for whistleblower rights.