Ellesberg- Like Vietnam, Iraq Occupation started with lies

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http://ellsberg.net/writing/chapter1.htm

Chapter One
of

Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers

Tonkin Gulf: August 1964

On Tuesday morning, August 4, 1964, my first full day on my new job in the Pentagon, a courier came into the outer office with an urgent cable for my boss. He'd been running. The secretaries told him Assistant Secretary John McNaughton was out of the office; he was down the hall with Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. They pointed the him to me, his new Special Assistant. The courier handed me the cable and left. It was easy to see, as I read it, why he had been running

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