Daniel Ellsberg has died, his family confirmed in a statement on Friday. He was 92.
Daniel Ellsberg, a military analyst best known for leaking American military secrets, known as the Pentagon Papers, during the Vietnam War, died Friday, his family announced in a statement on Twitter.
While working as an analyst for the RAND Corporation, Ellsberg leaked 7,000 pages of Defense Department documents to The New York Times, which published them in 1971. The documents revealed that the U.S. government had misled the American public about the scope of the Vietnam War. His death comes months after publicly announcing his pancreatic cancer diagnosis.
“Daniel was a seeker of truth and a patriotic truth-teller, an antiwar activist, a beloved husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, a dear friend to many, and an inspiration to countless more,” his family said.
