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The Pentagon Papers contained 7,000 pages of classified documents. They showed that the USA knew it would lose the Vietnam War as early as July 1965. [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] believed the USA would not defeat [[Democratic Republic of Vietnam (1945–1975)|Vietnam]] even if it lost 50,000 people. [[Henry Kissinger|Kissinger]] described Ellsberg as "the most dangerous man in America", and [[Richard Nixon|Nixon]] banned newspapers from publishing the papers.<ref name=":0" /> | The Pentagon Papers contained 7,000 pages of classified documents. They showed that the USA knew it would lose the Vietnam War as early as July 1965. [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] believed the USA would not defeat [[Democratic Republic of Vietnam (1945–1975)|Vietnam]] even if it lost 50,000 people. [[Henry Kissinger|Kissinger]] described Ellsberg as "the most dangerous man in America", and [[Richard Nixon|Nixon]] banned newspapers from publishing the papers.<ref name=":0" /> | ||
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In 2019, | In 2019, he spoke out against U.S. coup attempts against [[Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela|Venezuela]]. In May 2021, he released a classified document from 1958 that showed that the United States would start a nuclear war if [[People's Republic of China|China]] retook [[Taiwan Province|Taiwan]].<ref name=":0" /> | ||
== See also == | == See also == | ||