Fifty years after he leaked the Pentagon Papers, Daniel Ellsberg says he's made another disclosure.
Daniel Ellsberg has warned against the dangers of nuclear weapons and military interventions for decadesOne by one, he photocopied thousands of top-secret documents that he hoped would end a long and costly conflict.
At the same time, Mr Ellsberg copied another classified study that showed how seriously American military chiefs took the threat of nuclear war during the Taiwan crisis of 1958.Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers to expose actions the US had taken in the Vietnam War What Mr Ellsberg learned during that period weighed heavily on his conscience. If only the public knew, he thought, political pressure to end the war might prove irresistible.
That material amounts to dozens of redacted pages from a study of the crisis of 1958, when Communist Chinese forces began shelling islands controlled by Taiwan's nationalist government. In exposing this risk via his leak, Mr Ellsberg said he faced the possibility of prosecution under the Espionage Act.Reflecting the security concerns of the time, the act outlawed the unauthorised disclosure of information intended to damage the US or benefit an enemy. Over time, its restrictions on free speech under the First Amendment of the US Constitution prompted precedent-setting legal challenges.
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