Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked Pentagon Papers exposing Vietnam War secrets, dies at 92

Daniel Ellsberg, a co-defendant in the Pentagon Papers trial, talks to reporters after he testified in Los Angeles, April 12, 1973, as his wife, Patricia Ellsberg, looks on.

NEW YORK — 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.

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