Question

The pentagon Papers revealed that (A) American prisoners of war were being tortured in North Vietnamese prisons. (B) American soldiers had massacred Vietnamese civilians at My Lai. (C) Many more Americans had died in Vietnam than had been reported. (D) the government had not been honest with the public about Vietnam.

Answer 1

D is the correct answer.

The Pentagon Papers were leaked by Daniel Ellsberg in the New York Times in 1971 and showed that the United States Government, specifically the Johnson administration, systemically lied about the scope and effectiveness of American involvement in Vietnam.