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Daniel Ellsberg Week Honors Pentagon Whistleblower

I first spent time with Dan Ellsberg at a writer’s retreat in 2016. I was writing The Ghost about counterintelligence chief James Angleton. I asked Ellsberg about him and quickly learned  everything I heard about Ellsberg was true. He is a profound student of U.S. policy and U.S. empire. He combines an encyclopedic yet personal...

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Declassified records show extent of CIA’s involvement in efforts to discredit Daniel Ellsberg 

During the Watergate scandal, the CIA distanced itself from the burglars arrested at the Democratic National Committee but a newly declassified records, obtain by MuckRock, reveals just how much the agency supported President Nixon’s dirty tricksters. A previously classified document that the Central Intelligence Agency provided to Congress during the investigation of the Watergate affair shows that...