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Pentagon Papers: full declassified Report of the OSD Vietnam Task Force
Report · written January 1969 · released 13 June 2011
Why this matters
All 47 volumes of the Defense Department's secret history of U.S. involvement in Vietnam, officially declassified and released in 2011, forty years after the leak. The 1971 newspaper excerpts were partial. Here are the complete scanned volumes, including material the press never saw, organized by period.
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National Archives and Records Administration. "Pentagon Papers: full declassified Report of the OSD Vietnam Task Force." January 1969. Released 13 June 2011. https://www.archives.gov/research/pentagon-papers (accessed via The Quiet Archive, QA-0016).
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