STRANGE The Pentagon Papers: NARA Full Release (2011)
NARA's official release page documents the complete, unredacted Pentagon Papers — ~7,000 pages in 48 boxes, released with the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon libraries on the 40th anniversary of the June 1971 leak, with about a third of it public for the first time.
'Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force,' commissioned by McNamara in 1967, leaked by Daniel Ellsberg in June 1971. Full official release June 13, 2011 (40th anniversary) by NARA with the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon libraries — ~7,000 pages in 48 boxes, no redactions, ~2,384 pages newly available vs. the Gravel edition.
Evidence status: Confirmed by primary sources — court records, government reports, declassified documents.
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AI review of the National Archives' Pentagon Papers release page, read in full: - The report, officially the 'Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force,' was commissioned by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in 1967; small portions leaked to the press in June 1971 and prior editions were 'incomplete and suffered from many quality issues.' - On the 40th anniversary of the leak, NARA together with the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon Presidential Libraries released the complete report: 48 boxes, approximately 7,000 declassified pages, with 'approximately 34%' (about 2,380 pages) available for the first time. - Unique to this release: the report is complete with no redactions, presented as Leslie Gelb gave it to Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford on January 15, 1969, including the complete peace-negotiations account and supplemental back-documentation missing from the Gravel Edition. - The page indexes every part (I through VI.C.4) with file sizes and National Archives identifiers, and links the Nixon tapes of the leak, the Mike Gravel reading, and a 1973 Ellsberg interview. - Record summary verified accurate against the document.