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The “most important whistleblower of our times”, Daniel Ellsberg was the military analyst who smuggled hundreds of pages of top secret material about US actions in Vietnam out of his office at the Rand Corporation, and shared them with a reporter from The New York Times, said The Guardian. 

An audio recording of former US president Donald Trump discussing holding secret documents has been leaked to CNN. This could form part of the ongoing investigation into Trump’s alleged misuse of classified documents. He has been charged with 37 violations of the US Espionage Act, and pleaded not guilty.

The late Daniel Ellsberg was a former government contractor who leaked the classified history of the Vietnam War known as the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times.