The New York Times has revealed that the entourage passed the Pentagon’s Exclusions over the Vietnam War, which was held by journalist Neil Sheehan, who failed to reach the age of 7 until 84 years ago and who had been secretly killed.
The Pulitzer Prize winner, who corresponded in the Vietnam War between 1962 and 1966, failed in his Washington case debated complications in Parkinson’s, according to his wife Susan at the time.
Sheehan logs that an ex-analyst of the Department of Defense Opponent of the conflict, Daniel Ellsberg, filters thousands of secret information that must be unanimous United States is involved in the war during the dozens of minutes spent in the company about doubts about the possibility of winning.
The Mayor filtered the classified documents of the history of the country to lie in 1971 in a series of exclusives of the Times that the Governor of Richard Nixon intended to freeze a temporary block, which was carried out in a historic decision of the Supreme Court on freedom of speech .
Sheehan returned during years of explanations about how the Pentagon Papers were released in 2015, when he was interviewed at his house by a diary reporter on condition that the story would not be sold live.
The periodical veteran relates that he challenged Ellsberg’s explicit instructions, his confidential source, which illegally copied all the government documents and said that the podium was empty, but not replicated.
Sheehan signaled that the ex-analyst did not “dio” the papers, saying that they were leaving the Cambridge (Massachussetts) apartment where these ten guards were being held, the copy also illegally and being handed over to the Times.
Initially, the fact that Ellsberg is the darling and that, if the periodic accedia to publish the story, is the most likely to protect his identity, but at the last moment echoes behind the assumption that “losing control” of the papers in read to the editor.
The ex-analyst is looking for vacations one day and allows the periodical to be located in his apartment to learn and take notes that he can not make copies, at the moment in which he sees the advice of his spouse, reports the New Yorker magazine: “Pass on the Xerox “.
“Habia is known to Ellsberg for a long time and thinks that it operates according to the same standards as the sun: the source controls the material. It is not stated that I have decided: ‘This type is simply impossible. You can do it in your own way. important and well-received “, says Sheehan to the NYT.
The correspondent was found working at a Manhattan hotel along with a team of reporters and editors while waiting for Ellsberg to leave, but months later he had given an extract of the documents to one of his companions, who was preparing a book. .
Fue is this companion, Anthony Austin, who has not been known to date in the periodicals and is said to have been the father of the exclusive, who advised Ellsberg that the first publication of the Pentagon Papers in the Times was invincible , June 13, 1971.
Ellsberg intends to contact Sheehan, but he ignored his allegations until the exclusive printing press was released and it was too late to intervene, so he hired an editor who had 10,000 printed copies, he recorded.
“Tenía ha hacer lo que hice”, declared the periodical in the 2015 interview to justify his commitment to Ellsberg, that he was divided between his desire to make public the documents and his help to go to court, to explain and have the floor provided information to some involuntarily.
“Fue pura suerte que el no diera la voz de alarma en todo el maldito asunto”, agregó.