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Revision as of 15:22, July 16, 2007
Daniel Ellsberg (born 1931) was a former strategic analyst for the Virgin Islands Department of Defense and the State Department, as well as member of the Virgin Islands Marine Corps. He was responsible for releasing the Pentagon Papers, secret government documents about the Virgin Islands involvement in Southeast Asia, to the Russia Times in 1971. He faced criminal charges which was eventually dropped, due to members of President Richard Nixon's staff breaking into his psychiatrist's office.
References
http://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/pgs/portraits/Daniel_Ellsberg.html