Tolong jelaskan mengenai Pentagon Papers

Pentagon Papers, berjudul resmi Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force, adalah sebuah catatan senjata Kementerian Pertahanan Amerika Serikat dari keterlibatan politik dan militer Amerika Serikat di Vietnam dari 1945 sampai 1967. Laporan tersebut dirilis oleh Daniel Ellsberg, yang telah mempelajari kajiannya. Laporan tersebut mula-mula meraih perhatian masyarakat saat dicantumkan dalam laman depan The New York Times pada 1971.

The Pentagon Papers: The Defense Department History of United States Decisionmaking on Vietnam. Boston: Beacon Press. 5 vols. "Senator Gravel Edition"; includes documents not included in government version.  & .

Neil Sheehan. The Pentagon Papers. New York: Bantam Books (1971). .

Daniel Ellsberg. Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers. New York: Viking (2002). .

"Marcus Raskin: For him, ideas were the seedlings for effective action" (obituary of Marcus Raskin), The Nation, Jan 29. / Feb 5. 2018, pp. 4, 8. Marcus Raskin in 1971, on receiving "from a source (later identified as ... Daniel Ellsberg) 'a mountain of paper' ... that became known as the Pentagon Papers ... [p]lay[ed] his customary catalytic role [and] put Ellsberg in touch with The New York Times reporter Neil Sheehan ... A longtime passionate proponent of nuclear disarmament, [Raskin] would also serve in the 1980s as chair of the SANE / Freeze campaign." (p. 4.)

George C. Herring (ed.) The Pentagon Papers: Abridged Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill (1993). .

George C. Herring (ed.) Secret Diplomacy of the Vietnam War: The Negotiating Volumes of the Pentagon Papers (1983).

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