Claim
Claim 134
The Pentagon Papers were commissioned by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and covered the United States role in Indochina from the Second World War until May 1968, before Daniel Ellsberg leaked them in 1971.
- Statement
- The Pentagon Papers were commissioned by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and covered the United States role in Indochina from the Second World War until May 1968, before Daniel Ellsberg leaked them in 1971.
- Field
- occurred_on
- Value
- Pentagon Papers commissioned and leaked
- Source
- Pentagon Papers
- Publisher
- Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Method
- outlet report
- Checked
- 2026-09-22
- Confidence
- medium
- Status
- current
Quotation from the source
Pentagon Papers, papers that contain a history of the U.S. role in Indochina from World War II until May 1968.