Daniel Ellsberg

Ellsberg was indicted in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on charges of espionage and theft.

In late June 1971, just before the Supreme Court issued its decision in the newspaper cases,

a revised indictment added to the charges and indicted as a co-conspirator Anthony Russo, who had assisted in photocopying the secret report.

Judge William Byrne of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California dismissed all charges against the defendants and barred the government from retrying them.

the conduct of the Government has placed the case in such a posture that it precludes the fair, dispassionate resolution of these issues by a jury.

After reporting to a White House assistant and apparently receiving specific authorization, the special unit then planned and executed the break-in of the psychiatrist’s office in search of the records of one of the defendants.

On December 29, 1971, Anthony Russo was indicted alongside Ellsberg as his co-defendant

of eight charges of espionage, six of theft and one of conspiracy.

Ellsberg worked at RAND between 1958 and 1970.

In 1959, Ellsberg became a strategic analyst at the RAND Corporation

In the early evening of October 1, 1969, Ellsberg took out the 1964–1965 volumes of the McNamara study, which filled two drawers of his office safe at RAND, to photocopy.

in October 1969 I began photocopying, with the initial help of my former RAND colleague Anthony Russo, the Top Secret 7,000-page McNamara study.