Anthony Russo: 1. August 1. 0, 2. 00. Russo, who lived in Santa Monica, Calif., for many years, died Wednesday of natural causes in his native Suffolk, Va., according to a spokesman for the Suffolk Police Department. Russo had been in poor health since a heart attack three years ago. In 1. 97. 1 Mr. Russo helped Ellsberg copy a classified government history of the Vietnam War that Ellsberg later supplied to The New York Times and other newspapers. Called the Pentagon Papers after the Times published extensive excerpts and analysis, the secret study provided evidence of lying by government officials, including several presidents, about the scope and purposes of the war. Ellsberg went on to become an anti- war icon and author, but Mr. Russo was relegated to a few lines in history books. Mr. 1. 4, 1. 93. 6, studied aerophysics at Virginia Tech in the late 1.
Princeton University, where he shifted his focus to engineering and public affairs. He later left school and apply to Rand. At the Santa Monica think- tank, Mr. Russo was assigned to the Viet Cong Morale and Motivation Project. His research in Vietnam radicalized him in support of the Viet Cong, the force opposed by the U. S. He drew the interest of Ellsberg, a former Defense Department analyst who by 1. Rand. Ellsberg asked his colleague to brief him on the Viet Cong project and told Mr. Russo, who was later fired, about a secret study that chronicled the origins of the Vietnam War. A few days before Christmas 1. The case against them was dismissed in 1. Ellsberg's psychiatrist looking for information to discredit the star defendant. The break- in had been committed by operatives from President Richard Nixon's White House. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Forgotten Pentagon Papers Conspirator. After Ellsberg and Russo took the Pentagon Papers. In the trial's aftermath, Russo would be progressively. Russo, a Rand researcher in the late 1960s who encouraged Daniel Ellsberg to leak the Pentagon Papers and stood trial with him in the Vietnam. ![]()
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