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In 1968 the Johnson administration attempted to neogitiate a peace deal to end the Vietnam war after the shock of the tet offensive. Richard Nixon secretly contacted the South Vietnamese president Thieu, telling him that if he held out and refused a peace deal Nixon would continue to back him up militarically once he is elected. Nixon did so in order to destroy the possibility that the democrats might negotiate a peace in Vietnam before the election.

US intelligence knew about this deal through wiretaps of South Vietnamese embassy officials, LBJ was told this and considered it to be treason, though he did not release the information.

What if someone within the Johnson administration or FBI leaked it?
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