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The judge threw out the case after agents of the White House broke into the office of Ellsberg's psychiatrist to steal records in hopes of discrediting him, and after it surfaced that Ellsberg's phone had been tapped illegally.

That September break-in was tied to the Plumbers, a shady White House operation formed after the Pentagon Papers disclosures to stop leaks, smear Nixon's opponents and serve his political ends. The next year, the Plumbers were implicated in the break-in at the Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate building.

Ellsberg remains convinced the report -- a thick, often tough read -- would have had much less impact if Nixon had not temporarily suppressed publication with a lower court order and had not prolonged the headlines even more by going after him so hard.

The declassified report includes 2, pages missing from what was regarded as the most complete version of the Pentagon Papers, published in by Democratic Sen.

Mike Gravel of Alaska. But some of the material absent from that version appeared -- with redactions -- in a report of the House Armed Services Committee, also in In addition, at the time, Ellsberg did not disclose a section on peace negotiations with Hanoi, in fear of complicating the talks, but that part was declassified separately years later. The 40th anniversary provided a motivation for government archivists to declassify the records. Daverede, director of the production division at the National Declassification Center.

The center, part of the National Archives, was established by a executive order from President Barack Obama, with a mission to speed the declassification of government records. If not with the same personal vendetta, presidents since Nixon have acted aggressively to tamp down leaks.

Obama's administration has pursued cases against five government leakers under espionage statutes, more than any of his recent predecessors. Most prominent among the cases is that of Pfc.

Bradley E. Manning, an intelligence analyst accused of passing hundreds of thousands of military and State Department documents to WikiLeaks.

The administration says it provides avenues for whistleblowers to report wrongdoing, even in classified matters, but it cannot tolerate unilateral decisions to release information that jeopardizes national security.