"Mr. Boston": Meet the Man Who Secretly Helped Daniel Ellsberg Leak Pentagon Papers to the Press

Historian Gar Alperovitz has revealed for the first time the key role he and a handful of other activists played in helping whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg leak to journalists the Pentagon Papers-a 7,000-page classified history outlining the true extent of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Daniel Ellsberg told The New Yorker the secret role this group played was so crucial in releasing the Pentagon Papers that he gave them a code name: "The Lavender Hill Mob." Alperovitz went by the alias "Mr. Boston." Ellsberg told The New Yorker, "Gar took care of all the cloak-and-dagger stuff." We speak to historian and political economist Gar Alperovitz about why he is going public now.