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Ralph Engelman; Carey Shenkman
A Century of Repression, 10/2022Book Chapter
Following the case against John Nickerson, whose Espionage Act charges were dropped in 1957, the government did not initiate any prosecutions for disclosure of national defense information to the press for nearly a decade and a half, spanning the remainder of Eisenhower’s administration and the presidencies of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. The act would once again assume center stage during the Nixon administration in response to the most consequential releases of NDI to the media in US history to date, chief among them the Pentagon Papers, released by Daniel Ellsberg, whom Nixon’s National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger would call
