Posted on Mar 3, 2023
Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers, announces he has terminal cancer
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Daniel Ellsberg, who copied and leaked documents that revealed secret details of U.S. strategy in the Vietnam War and became known as the Pentagon Papers, has announced he has terminal cancer and months to live.
Ellsberg posted on his Facebook page Thursday that doctors diagnosed the 91-year-old with inoperable pancreatic cancer on Feb. 17 following a CT scan and MRI.
Doctors have given him between three and six months to live, he said.
Daniel Ellsberg, who copied and leaked documents that revealed secret details of U.S. strategy in the Vietnam War and became known as the Pentagon Papers, has announced he has terminal cancer and months to live.
Ellsberg posted on his Facebook page Thursday that doctors diagnosed the 91-year-old with inoperable pancreatic cancer on Feb. 17 following a CT scan and MRI.
Doctors have given him between three and six months to live, he said.
Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers, announces he has terminal cancer
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel good day Brother William, always informational and of the most interesting. Thanks for sharing, have a blessed day!
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."Ellsberg served with the US Marine Corps in the 1950s before going to Vietnam as a civilian defense department analyst who studied tactics to counter insurgents. The Rand Corporation employed him when he leaked the Pentagon Papers.
More recently, he expressed support for the US soldier Chelsea Manning – who leaked Iraq and Afghanistan war records – and Edward Snowden, who blew the whistle on National Security Agency phone and internet surveillance.
Ellsberg told the Guardian in 2021 that he “never regretted” leaking the Pentagon Papers.
“Of course you’d be radically transparent about this, too,” the American author Jonathan Katz wrote in a reply to Ellsberg’s tweet Thursday. “Very sorry to hear the news but glad you are still with us and making the best of the time you have left.”
..."Ellsberg served with the US Marine Corps in the 1950s before going to Vietnam as a civilian defense department analyst who studied tactics to counter insurgents. The Rand Corporation employed him when he leaked the Pentagon Papers.
More recently, he expressed support for the US soldier Chelsea Manning – who leaked Iraq and Afghanistan war records – and Edward Snowden, who blew the whistle on National Security Agency phone and internet surveillance.
Ellsberg told the Guardian in 2021 that he “never regretted” leaking the Pentagon Papers.
“Of course you’d be radically transparent about this, too,” the American author Jonathan Katz wrote in a reply to Ellsberg’s tweet Thursday. “Very sorry to hear the news but glad you are still with us and making the best of the time you have left.”
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