July 31, 2018 - A previously classified document that the Central Intelligence Agency provided to Congress during the investigation of the Watergate affair shows that G. Gordon Liddy used papers that the Agency had provided - without authorization - while traveling to California to break into the office of Dr. Lewis Fielding, Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist. This newly released document shows that CIA’s Inspector General report on Watergate left out key details, and exposes CIA’s Deputy Director Vernon Walters’ claim that the assistance was provided in response to a “duly authorized extra-Agency request” as false.

2 weeks ago - "28 Veterans of US Intelligence Fight Back Against CIA Claims That the Bush Torture Program Was Useful and Necessary". Archived from the original on September 28, 2015. ↑ "Pentagon Papers leaker comes to the defense of Assange". AP NEWS. September 16, 2020. Retrieved October 7, 2020. ↑ Pireres, Sharmini (April 12, 2019). "Daniel Ellsberg...

Dou­glas Valen­tine has writ­ten exten­sive­ly about the U.S. nation­al secu­ri­ty estab­lish­ment. Best known for his sem­i­nal work on the Phoenix pro­gram in Viet­nam, he has recent­ly pub­lished The CIA as Orga­nized Crime. In his recent vol­ume, Valen­tine notes Daniel Ells­berg’s long-stand­ing links to the CIA and the inability/unwillingness of what he calls “The Com­pat­i­ble Left” to talk about St. Ells­berg’s con­nec­tions to Lan­g­ley. This under­scores why Mr. Emory has, for so long, referred to the “so-called pro­gres­sive sec­tor.” · 1. The CIA as Orga­nized Crime by Dou­glas Valen­tine; Clar­i­ty Press [SC]; Copy­right 2017 by Dou­glas Valen­tine; ISBN 978–0‑9972870–2‑8; pp. 31–32. . . . . Peter Dale Scott had also been mar­gin­al­ized as a result of his 1972 book, The War Con­spir­a­cy, and his 1993 book Deep Pol­i­tics and the Death of JFK.

August 3, 1973 - CIA initial psychological assessment of D Ellsberg, which is released to NY Times on Aug 2, concludes that Ellsberg was motivated by 'what he deemed a higher order of patriotism' in turning over Pentagon papers to press in '71; describes Ellsberg as brilliant and success-oriented man who saw himself 'as having a special mission, and indeed as bearing a special responsibility' regarding Vietnam war; study, prepared in Aug '71, by CIA staff psychiatrist Dr B Malloy, was rejected by 'plumbers' unit that requested it; former CIA dir R Helms, testifying before Sen Watergate com on Aug 2, says that White House had expressed disappointment over Ellsberg study and had demanded 2d effort which was provided; Gen R E Cushman Jr testifies that during his 3 yrs of active duty with CIA he does not recall any other psychological study being made on an Amer; Ellsberg notes that rept, although ...

September 30, 2019 - Left Panel, top to bottom: CIA veteran Filipe de Diego (no known photo); CIA veteran Eugenio Martinez; CIA veteran Bernard Barker. Center panel: “Saint” Daniel Ellsberg, phony “opponent” of the Deep State, had “above Top Secret” clearances and helped mastermind the “Watergate” fraud to overthrow a sitting President of the United States. Right panel, top to bottom: CIA MK-Ultra psychiatrist Lewis “Gollum” Fielding, purportedly Ellsberg’s psychiatrist; FBI veteran G. Gordon Liddy, on “special clearances” from CIA; CIA founding veteran E. Howard Hunt, a hack spy fiction writer who helped Ellsberg architect the CIA hoax known as “Watergate.” · The files in my cabinet were in considerable disarray. My personal papers, including those pertaining to Dr. Ellsberg, appeared to have been thoroughly rummaged through. CIA-Blessed Psychiatrist Lewis Fielding ·

September 3, 2019 - What is relevant … is that in June 1971, Daniel Ellsberg leaked the aptly named Pentagon Papers, shifting blame for the increasingly unpopular Vietnam War from the CIA to the military, while distracting public attention from the investigations ...

June 16, 2023 - Editor's Note, June 16, 2023: Daniel Ellsberg, the military analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971, died of pancreatic cancer today at age 92.

Howard Hunt and James McCord, both former CIA agents, and G. Gordon Liddy, had used false identification authenticated by the CIA in operations against the Democrats. (Jack Anderson, “CIA Reportedly Set Up Watergate IDs,” Washington Post, Times Herald, May 8, 1973, p. B15) The day before, May 7, chairmen of three separate Senate and House committees announced plans to investigate allegations of CIA involvement in a September 1971 White House-directed burglary of a psychiatrist treating former RAND corporation analyst Daniel Ellsberg. Earlier that year, Ellsberg leaked the classified 7,000-page report, United States–Vietnam Relations, 1945–1967: A Report by the Department of Defense, known as the Pentagon Papers, to the New York Times. On May 8, the Washington Post reported DCI Schlesinger’s confirmation that CIA equipment had been used by Hunt and Liddy in the Ellsberg ...

July 2, 2026 - Daniel Ellsberg’s trial coincided with the first Watergate trials. Franklin McMahon/Corbis via Getty Images · In mid-April 1973, near the end of Ellsberg’s trial, Watergate prosecutors discovered the illegal campaign against Ellsberg – including, along with the burglary of his psychiatrist’s office, warrantless wiretaps and CIA-conducted psychological profiles, which went against the CIA’s charter.

June 14, 2021 - In 1969 Ellsberg was working as a Pentagon consultant at the Rand Corporation thinktank in Santa Monica, California, and still had access to the secret study of the war, which by this time had killed about 45,000 Americans and hundreds of thousands ...

A U.S. defense consultant turned antiwar activist, Daniel Ellsberg is best known for leaking the 47-volume secret study of America’s involvement in Vietnam, the PENTAGON PAPERS, to the New York Times in 1971. ... Ellsberg was born in Chicago in 1931. He attended both Harvard and Cambridge Universities, eventually receiving a master’s degree in economics from Harvard. In 1954, Ellsberg entered the U.S. Marine Corps, ris- ing to the rank of first lieutenant. When his two-year term of service was completed in 1956, he requested an extension in order to ship out with his battalion, which was deploying to the Middle East and the developing cri- sis in the Suez. After leaving the Marines, Ellsberg returned to Har- vard, where he earned a Ph.D. in 1962. He then joined the RAND Corporation, an academic “think tank” specializing in research and analysis projects for decision makers in the corporate world and the federal government.

March 8, 2003 - What is relevant to the discrepancy is the that in June 1971, Daniel Ellsberg leaked the aptly named Pentagon Papers, shifting blame for the increasingly unpopular Vietnam War from the CIA to the military, while distracting public attention ...

Although Daniel Ellsberg is an icon of the Left, there is abundant evidence that he was and is a CIA stalwart who was used to topple a pres...

Another top concern of the Church Committee staff was any evidence of CIA involvement with operations inside the United States. As Archive analyst Jeff Richelson wrote in 2001: TSD had become an object of concern in this period because of its technical assistance to the efforts of Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy to burgle the office of Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist as well as to dig up derogatory information on Edward Kennedy.

June 3, 2010 - On Thursday morning, Daniel Ellsberg, government whistle-blower emeritus of Pentagon Papers fame, sat on a stage in midtown Manhattan and talked via Skype to Julian Paul Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, who was calling in from Australia. It was the first morning of the annual Personal Democracy Forum conference. A roomful of journalists, political operatives and tech-heads sat in the auditorium watching. At one point during the conversation, Mr. Ellsberg noted that he had read the recent profile of Mr. Assange in The New Yorker. “Assange is an international trafficker, of sorts,” wrote The New Yorker‘s Raffi Khatchadourian. “He and his colleagues collect documents and imagery that governments and other institutions regard as confidential and publish them on a Web site called WikiLeaks.org. Since it went online, three and a half years ago, the site has published an extensive catalogue of secret material, ranging from the Standard Operating Procedures at Camp Delta, in Guantánamo Bay,

March 11, 2016 - As sites like WikiLeaks and figures such as Edward Snowden continue to reveal uncomfortable truths about America’s endless wars for power and oil, one important figure stands apart as an inspiration to the whistleblowers of today: Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower who leaked the “Pentagon Papers,” over 7,000 pages of top secret documents, in 1971.

1 week ago - Richard M. Nixon, had utilized a team of “plumbers”—so named for their ability to “repair leaks” and later made famous by their role in the Watergate break-in—to burglarize the Beverly Hills office of Ellsberg’s psychiatrist in an unsuccessful effort to uncover embarrassing or harmful material; the burglary was masterminded by former CIA operative E. Howard Hunt. Cleared of wrongdoing, Ellsberg devoted the rest of his life to peace activism and academia. Daniel EllsbergDaniel Ellsberg attending the Los Angeles Press Club's Veritas Awards ceremony, 2018.(more)