Wednesday, June 34, 1971

THE MICHIGAN-DAILY

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Daniel Ellsberg: A study in the
changeover from hawk to dove

By PETER ARNETT
Associated Press Writer
Three glimpses of a man evolv-
ing from a hawk to a dove:
The first, wading through a
Mekong Delta paddyfield knee
deep in mud, a Schmeisser sub-
machine gun cradled in his arms,
impatience mirrored on his face,
not a soldier but a civilian eager
to see the war won.
"These guys just don't know
how to fight," he gasps to a re-
porter in annoyance. He turns to
the A m e r i c a n infantrymen
crouching down in the tall green
rice behind him seeking cover
from a persistent Viet Cong snip-
er. "Damn it, this is no way to
win a war"" he shouts. "Move
up.".
The second glimpse, this time
with a thick sheaf of papers in
his hands on a Government jet
high over the Pacific, a frus-
trated war analyst whose argu-
ments are unheeded. He is
crouching over his friend and
superior, Defense Secretary Rob-
ert McNamara, reading out loud
a top secret study of the war
made by senior American offic-
ials in Saigon late in 1966 but hid-
den from McNamara's view in
Washington. The report casts
doubt on the whole war effort,
and he had flown to Honolulu to
join McNamara and keep him
awake with statistics and find-
ings on a long, overnight journey
to Vietnam.
The third glimpse. It is Mon-
day morning outside the Boston
Federal Court building, and he
is arm in arm with his attractive
wife, a briefcase in his hand, his
hair grown bushy from the neat
trims of his Vietnam days, now a
research associate at the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology.
He is definitely telling cheering
onlookers that he passed the
Pentagon papers to the New York
Times. "The American public
must be told the truth .. . I am
prepared for all the conse-
quences."
Then he turns himself in to
answer charges of illegal posses-
sion of secret documents and
failure to return them.
That was Dr. Daniel Ellsberg,
slim, energetic, once a Vietnam
hawk, but now very much a
dove.
Ellsberg, 40, a research asso-
ciate at Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, was arraigned on
Monday for being the source of a
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ret Pentagon study of the history
of the Vietnam war was given to
the New York Times.
Many other Americans have
made the journey from hawk to
dove in recent years. They have
included war veterans and gov-
ernment officials. But none has
done so with such drama as that
provided by the 40-year-old for-
mer Marine.
Ellsberg turned dovish after he
left Vietnam in 1968, and his rap-
id transformation into an anti-
war critic dismayed his friends
in the battle zone.
"What the devil are they doing
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to him over there?" asked one of,
his close friends in exasperation
late in 1969 after Ellsberg and
other Rand Corporation analysts
had signed a bitter, antiwar let-
ter to the newspapers.
Ellsberg is remembered in
Vietnam as a dashing, enthusias-
tic war warrior, sneaking out on
military operations in unmarked
fatigues, much to the annoyance
of field officers who regarded
See ELLSBERG, Page 10

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