Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon PapersPenguin, 2003-09-30 - 528 psl. The true story of the leaking of the Pentagon Papers, the event which inspired Steven Spielberg’s feature film The Post In 1971 former Cold War hard-liner Daniel Ellsberg made history by releasing the Pentagon Papers - a 7,000-page top-secret study of U.S. decision-making in Vietnam - to the New York Times and Washington Post. The document set in motion a chain of events that ended not only the Nixon presidency but the Vietnam War. In this remarkable memoir, Ellsberg describes in dramatic detail the two years he spent in Vietnam as a U.S. State Department observer, and how he came to risk his career and freedom to expose the deceptions and delusions that shaped three decades of American foreign policy. The story of one man's exploration of conscience, Secrets is also a portrait of America at a perilous crossroad. "[Ellsberg's] well-told memoir sticks in the mind and will be a powerful testament for future students of a war that the United States should never have fought." -The Washington Post "Ellsberg's deft critique of secrecy in government is an invaluable contribution to understanding one of our nation's darkest hours." -Theodore Roszak, San Francisco Chronicle |
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PART I | 1 |
Vietnam 1961 | 3 |
The Tonkin Gulf August 1964 | 7 |
Cold Warrior Secret Keeper | 21 |
The Road to Escalation | 48 |
Planning Provocation | 65 |
Off the Diving Board July 1965 | 88 |
Joining the Foreign Legion | 98 |
Murder and the Lying Machine | 286 |
PART III | 297 |
Copying the Papers | 299 |
The Rand Letter | 310 |
Capitol Hill | 323 |
Leaving Rand | 330 |
Kissinger | 343 |
Congress | 356 |
Vietnam The Lansdale Team | 102 |
Travels with Vann | 109 |
Losing Hope | 126 |
Rach Kien | 143 |
Leaving Vietnam | 169 |
PART II | 179 |
Jaundice | 181 |
The Power of Truth | 199 |
Campaign 68 | 215 |
To the Hotel Pierre | 226 |
The Morality of Continuing the War | 246 |
War Resisters | 262 |
Extrication | 274 |
To the New York Times | 365 |
May Day 1971 | 376 |
Approaching June 13 | 382 |
Going Underground | 387 |
PART IV | 411 |
The War Goes On | 413 |
The Road to Watergate | 422 |
End of a Trial | 444 |
Acknowledgments | 459 |
Notes | 463 |
Works Cited | 473 |
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