The National Archives and Records Administration released a digital version of the Pentagon Papers June 13. The collection "will present the American public with the first definitive look at this historic document," according to a statement from NARA. Portions of the document were leaked to news outlets beginning in 1971. It was commissioned by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in 1967 and written by the Office of Secretary of Defense's Vietnam Task Force.

The 7,000 page document took "the better part of the week" to scan and is broken into 47 volumes (each one is a .pdf), Alex Daverede III, chief of production at NARA's National Declassification Center, told the Washington Post.

"We picked it out as a special project in the fall of last year. We went to the director [of the NDC], and she wasn't anticipating having these kinds of projects and she wasn't really anticipating any kind of project of this type. But I saw it as an opportunity," said Daverede. View the Pentagon Papers