The Pentagon Papers were released as a result of
A) President 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, D.C., subway.
E) a Freedom of Information Act request by the American Civil Liberties Union.

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The Pentagon Papers were leaked by a minor Defense Department staffer named Daniel Ellsberg, who photocopied the classified documents and passed them to the New York Times in 1971. The papers contained a history of the U.S. involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1971 and revealed that the government had deliberately misled the public and Congress about the true nature of the war.

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