Taking Back Our Stolen History
Pentagon Papers
Pentagon Papers

Pentagon Papers

Douglas Valentine, who for years investigated the CIA’s ‘Phoenix Program’ in Vietnam, wrote in 2003: “The House of Representatives launched deeper probes into CIA drug smuggling and the CIA’s Phoenix Program in early 1971, and, naturally, the CIA at this critical time took extensive countermeasures in a concerted effort to conceal these facts. 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 of the CIA’s Phoenix Program and the CIA’s involvement in drug smuggling” Also, from L Fletcher Prouty: “From the beginning, the Pentagon Papers were a compilation of documents designed to paint President John F. Kennedy as the villain of the story, and to shield the role of the CIA”.  Continue Reading…