The Pentagon Papers were first published 52 years ago

At a time when classified information is again in the news it might be worth remembering a different example of someone keeping – and then releasing – classified information. On June 13, 1971, the New York Times published documents from the secret Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force under the headline, 'Vietnam Archive: Pentagon Study Traces 3 Decades of Growing U.S. — Read the rest