what did the pentagon papers reveal?
<answer> The Pentagon Papers, a series of articles being published in the New York Times, revealed this to be, at best, an exeration of the truth. <context> The Pentagon Papers, a series of articles being published in the New York Times, revealed this to be, at best, an exeration of the truth. It suggested that the American destroyers might even have penetrated into North Vietnamese territorial waters prior to the attack on them.