Ellsberg, who shone a light on secret US government policy in the Vietnam War by leaking the Pentagon Papers, had earlier been diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer.
Ednews informs via foreign media that Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower who exposed years of US top-secret government deceit in the Vietnam War when he leaked the "Pentagon Papers," died on Friday.
He had been diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer in February. The Washington Post reported that Ellsberg wrote an email saying he had refused chemotherapy.
His family said he died at home in Kensington, California. "He was not in pain, and was surrounded by loving family," they said in a statement.
The revelations that Ellsberg made would eventually lead to the Watergate scandal that saw the resignation of former US President Richard Nixon.