By leaking the Defense Department’s top-secret history of the Vietnam War, Ellsberg inspired whistleblowers for the next half century and beyond.
At this point, Ellsberg came forth as the source of the documents. He and his RAND colleague, Anthony Russo, were charged with 11 federal crimes, including violating the Espionage Act. When a reporter asked if he was willing to go prison, Ellsberg calmly replied,He and Russo probably would have served time—they expected to—except that, as the trial date neared in 1973, Nixon offered the presiding judge, Matthew Byrne, a plum job in Washington.
I first met Dan on September 3, 1980, when I was starting to research a book about the history of nuclear strategy which came to be called. I drove to his house in Stinson Beach, an hour north of San Francisco, to interview him about his involvement in the story and wound up staying for 12 hours and filling two notebooks. It turned out that, for a few crucial years in the late-Eisenhower and early-Kennedy era, Ellsberg was at the center of this story, and his memory was elephantine.
An example: At one point, he told me about a little-known document called the Joint Strategic Capabilities Plan , signed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1958, which declared that any war between the United States and the Soviet Union must be—from the very beginning—a nuclear war. Key to this, he told me, was the JSCP’s definition of “general war.” He looked upward as if scanning his memory and recited the definition.
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