This segment shows how Nixon’s panic after the Pentagon Papers turned La Casa Pacifica into a nerve center for covert action. It traces the obsession with the Chennault file, the birth of the plumbers ...

Through extraordinary efforts by Washington correspondents Richard Dudman and Thomas Ottenad, the Post-Dispatch obtained as yet unpublished sections of the Pentagon Papers.

This chapter follows the hidden chain reaction that turned Vietnam’s classified history into Nixon’s greatest fear, and then into action. From the Pentagon Papers and Daniel Ellsberg to Nixon’s demand ...

SUFFOLK, Va. — Anthony J. Russo, a researcher who helped leak the Vietnam-era Pentagon Papers to the media and prompted wider public questioning of the war, has died, police said. Russo, 71, died in ...