The Pentagon Papers were a secret history of the Vietnam War prepared from classified sources. When they were leaked to the press in 1971, the government sued in an attempt to prevent them from being published. The Papers revealed that the Johnson Administration had lied to Americans at key points in the Vietnam War, and that even the Pentagon thought the war was unwinnable. This is the complete text of the 3,000 pages of the Pentagon Papers.
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