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Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers whistleblower, dies at 92; UMass has his archives

Jun 16, 2023 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    12% Somewhat Conservative

  • Reliability

    60% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    16% Somewhat Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -59% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : As much as anyone, Ellsberg also embodied the fall of American idealism in foreign policy in the 1960s and 1970s and the upending of the post-World War II consensus that Communism, real or suspected, should be opposed worldwide.
54% : He was active in campaigns to prevent nuclear arms proliferation and drew upon his history in government for the 2017 book "The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner," in which he included a once-top secret document showing that the U.S. had considered launching nuclear attacks on the Chinese in 1958.
52% : But like millions of other Americans, in and out of government, he had turned against the yearslong war in Vietnam, the government's claims that the battle was winnable and that a victory for the North Vietnamese over the U.S.-backed South would lead to the spread of communism throughout the region.

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