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Declassified records show extent of CIA’s involvement in efforts to discredit Daniel Ellsberg
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.
![Decades later, CIA's damage assessment for the "Pentagon Papers" leak is still largely redacted](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2018/01/09/VietCov.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
Decades later, CIA’s damage assessment for the “Pentagon Papers” leak is still largely redacted
A formerly SECRET memo uncovered in the Central Intelligence Agency’s declassified archives shows that a month after the New York Times began publishing what would become known as “The Pentagon Papers,” the Agency set about assessing the damages. Despite the Agency’s admission that much of the information in Daniel Ellsberg’s leaks was decades old, even in the early ’70s, the report remains almost entirely redacted.