🗂️ Declassified
Newly released government records from official archives, national and international, with short summaries we check against each document.
- Pentagon Papers: complete Vietnam Task Force report
Summary (written by Banana News from the document - read the original): The report, officially titled "Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force," was commissioned by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara in 1967. On the 40th anniversary of the 1971 press leak, the National Archives and the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon libraries released the complete report: 48 boxes and about 7,000 declassified pages, about 34% of it available for the first time.
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