Exhibit 383

Pentagon Papers (Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force)

Exhibit 383 · Archival release page

Pentagon Papers (Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force)

Approximately 34% of the report is available for the first time.

NARA describes the study commissioned by McNamara in 1967, presented to Secretary Clifford on 15 January 1969 and leaked in June 1971, and its complete release: 48 boxes, about 7,000 pages, with Part V.A (public statements) and Part V.B (internal documents).

Source: National Archives and Records Administration
Date: 2011 (40th anniversary of the 1971 leak)
Quoted from: release description, paragraph 1
Grade: Primary record
Document: https://www.archives.gov/research/pentagon-papers
Accessed: 2026-11-09
Cited by: Findings citing this exhibit
Note: Release day (13 June 2011) is not on the page read.

Cited by

Finding DEF-2.3: Primary record The Defense Department's Vietnam study, commissioned by Secretary McNamara in 1967 and presented to Secretary Clifford on 15 January 1969, reached the press in June 1971. On 30 June 1971 the Supreme Court held that the government had not met its burden of justifying a prior restraint on publication, and in 2011 the National Archives released the complete report, of which about 34 percent had never been available.