Daniel Ellsberg (Part 2)

(Part 2 of 2) Daniel Ellsberg was a military analyst for the RAND Corporation from 1959 to 1964 and 1967 to 1971. In 1971, he famously released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study on U.S. decision-making in Vietnam from 1945-1968. He is the author of several books, including Papers on the War, Risk, Ambiguity and Decision, and, most recently, Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers. During the 1960s, he also worked for the Defense Department, and later for the State Department at the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. In 2006, he received the Right Livelihood Award, known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize.”