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it sounded like a job for twitter , if not for its large community of indiscreet intelligence analysts , then because 140 characters seemed just about right for 11 words .
“ of course , i do n’t know what they are , ’ ’ he said .
the intrigue sparked a guessing game among historians , security analysts and even the authors of the report : which 11 words in the once - secret government study of the vietnam war were still deemed sensitive in the age of wikileaks ?
when the federal government said it would finally release a declassified copy of the pentagon papers on monday , 40 years after they were published by the new york times , it initially said it would keep 11 words secret .
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then it reversed itself , saying it would publish the 7,000 - page report in its entirety .
“ i could n’t begin to guess where those words came from , ’ ’ he said , before hazarding a guess that they might come from the sections on peace negotiations , which were left out of the first versions of the report .
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