[0025-2222] THE PAPERS OF DECEIT – Companion Dossier (PDF)

Description

In the dead of night inside a locked RAND Corporation office, an insider fed thousands of classified pages through a wheezing Xerox 914 copier. What Daniel Ellsberg duplicated was not merely raw intelligence; it was an encyclopedic 7,000-page institutional autopsy commissioned by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. The Companion Dossier reconstructs this watershed intelligence breach with exacting forensic precision. Across chronologically structured chapters, explore the primary-source cable traffic, National Intelligence Estimates, and unvarnished internal memos that exposed decades of executive mendacity. From the disputed clarity of the Gulf of Tonkin incident to the covert expansion of bombing runs into Laos and Cambodia, this dossier maps how high-level policymakers sustained a catastrophic proxy conflict while deceiving both Congress and the public. Complete with declassified operational notes, analyst profiles, and detailed timeline breakdowns, this dossier serves as an indispensable desktop record for researchers of Cold War counterintelligence, classification protocols, and the architecture of official lies.