13 jun 2011 ano - Declassification of the Pentagon Papers

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On May 4th, 2011, the National Archives and Records Administration announced that the Pentagon Papers, a United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1968 would be declassified and released to the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California, on June 13th, 2011. The release date included the Nixon, Kennedy, and Johnson Libraries and the Archives office in College Park, Maryland.

A 1996 article in The New York Times said that the Pentagon Papers had demonstrated, among other things, that Lyndon B. Johnson's administration had "systematically lied, not only to the public but also to Congress."

The full release was coordinated by the Archives's National Declassification Center (NDC) as a special project to mark the anniversary of the report. There were still eleven words that the agencies having classification control over the material wanted to redact, and the NDC worked with them, successfully, to prevent that redaction. It is unknown which 11 words were at issue and the government has declined requests to identify them, but the issue was made moot when it was pointed out that those words had already been made public, in a version of the documents released by the House Armed Services Committee in 1972.

The Archives released each volume of the Pentagon Papers as a separate PDF file, available on their website.

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