# Have the rest of the Pentagon Papers ever been published?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 21, 2008, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-the-rest-of-the-pentagon-papers-ever-been-published/473888 "2008-11-21T19:30:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-the-rest-of-the-pentagon-papers-ever-been-published/473888/1 "2008-11-21T19:30:17Z")

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As I recall, the full Pentagon Papers report (officially called something like US-Vietnam Relations Report) was some 7000 pages, all classified. After they were leaked to the New York Times, Sen. Gravel famously entered around 4000 pages into the Congressional Record, which were later published by Beacon Press.

Questions:

Did the original leak to the Times include the full 7000 pages?

If so, did anybody ever publish them? Is the report still considered classified despite the _de facto_ release into the public domain?

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**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-the-rest-of-the-pentagon-papers-ever-been-published/473888/2 "2008-11-22T17:06:50Z")

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Bumpus wumpus kalumpus.

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**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-the-rest-of-the-pentagon-papers-ever-been-published/473888/3 "2008-11-23T04:30:05Z")

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There’s [this site](http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pentagon/pent1.html), which I found on the first page of my Google search.

At the bottom are links to a site with PDF versions. I’m not sure if it’s complete, though.

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**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-the-rest-of-the-pentagon-papers-ever-been-published/473888/4 "2008-11-23T05:06:42Z")

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Thanks for that link. It looks like it’s a copy of the “Gravel Edition” so no new stuff there, unfortunately. The PDFs look like copies of the original four-volume series published by Beacon.