The Pentagon Papers were released as a result of:
A) Nixon's repudiation of the Johnson administration's strategy in Vietnam
B) investigations led by Washington Post reporters in 1972
C) a leak by a minor Defense Department staffer
D) an accident in which some of the papers were left on a Washington, DC, subway
E) a Freedom of Information Act request by the American Civil Liberties Union

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The Pentagon Papers were leaked by Daniel Ellsberg, a former military analyst and Defense Department staffer, who provided them to The New York Times and other newspapers in 1971.

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