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Daniel Ellsberg, the history-making whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971, has died.

Ellsberg later was a prominent free speech and anti-Iraq war activist, and a champion of such future whistleblowers as Edward Snowden.

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-of-the-press battle, died on Friday at the age of 92, his family said in a statement. Ellsberg, who had been diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer in February, died at his home in Kensington, California, the family said. Long before Edward Snowden and Wiki

Daniel Ellsberg, the government analyst and whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971, has died at 92. Ellsberg had announced in February that he was terminally ill with pancreatic

Daniel Ellsberg, the government analyst and whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971, has died at 92.