AMHERST, Mass. (AP) - The University of Massachusetts has acquired the papers of Daniel Ellsberg, the former government consultant whose release of the Pentagon Papers in 1971 exposed the deceit of American policymakers during the Vietnam War.
The flagship Amherst campus announced Monday that 500 boxes of papers, correspondence, annotated books and photographs will be managed by the university’s library and be made available to scholars and the public.
The 88-year-old Ellsberg will join UMass as a Distinguished Research Fellow at the university’s Political Economy Research Institute.
Ellsberg in a statement said he’s grateful the papers are going to UMass, “an institution that is dedicated to the values of openness, equity and social justice.”
The Boston Globe reports the university paid $2.2 million for the collection, $1.35 million of which came from an anonymous donor.
Please read our comment policy before commenting.