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The Origin of "Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers"

March 2, 2010 by Susan Albert Lo...

Around 1990, I called my friend Geoff Cowan seeking information about a First Amendment issue I was researching.  Geoff was teaching at UCLA at the time and was known to be an expert in the field. He answered my questions, and then told me about a docudrama he had written with his friend Leroy Aarons called TOP SECRET:  THE BATTLE FOR THE PENTAGON PAPERS.  Leroy, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, was The Washington Post bureau chief at the time of the “dust up” over the Papers.