Daniel Ellsberg

Daniel Ellsberg
Daniel Ellsberg
	Ellsberg in 2020
Born	April 7, 1931; Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Education	Harvard University (AB, PhD); King's College, Cambridge
Employer	RAND Corporation
Known for	Pentagon Papers, ; Ellsberg paradox
Spouse(s)	Carol Cummings (divorced); Patricia Marx (m. 1970)
Children	Robert, Mary (1st marriage); Michael Ellsberg (2nd marriage)
Website	www.ellsberg.net

Daniel Ellsberg (born April 7, 1931) is an American activist and former United States military analyst who was known for releasing the classified Pentagon Papers to The Washington Post.

Ellsberg at Georgetown University in 2014.

Pentagon Papers

While employed by the RAND Corporation, precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York Times and other newspapers.

Charge

Ellsberg was charged under the Espionage Act of 1917 along with other charges of theft and conspiracy, carrying a total maximum sentence of 115 years. Due to governmental misconduct and illegal evidence gathering, and the defense by Leonard Boudin and Harvard Law School professor Charles Nesson, Judge William Matthew Byrne Jr. dismissed all charges against Ellsberg on May 11, 1973.[1]

References

Ellsberg, Daniel (1961). "Risk, Ambiguity, and the Savage Axioms". Quarterly Journal of Economics. 75 (4): 643–669. doi:10.2307/1884324. JSTOR 1884324.

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[Ellsberg1961-1] Ellsberg, Daniel (1961). "Risk, Ambiguity, and the Savage Axioms". Quarterly Journal of Economics. 75 (4): 643–669. doi:10.2307/1884324. JSTOR 1884324.