The Pentagon Papers:
A)showed that Nixon had no idea how to handle the war in Vietnam.
B)proved that Nixon lied when he promised during the 1972 presidential campaign that he would get America out of Vietnam.
C)showed that the government had lied to the American public about major events of the Vietnam War to manipulate public opinion.
D)proved that massive numbers of civilians were murdered or abused by U.S. soldiers.
E)uncovered illegal campaign activities by Nixon and his staff.

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The Pentagon Papers, officially titled "Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force," were a top-secret Department of Defense study of U.S. political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. When leaked and published in 1971, they revealed that the U.S. government had systematically lied to the American public and Congress about the Vietnam War's scale, progress, and the likelihood of its success, significantly affecting public opinion.