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Hans Heymann Jr., 91; economist helped craft the Pentagon Papers

By T. Rees Shapiro

 |  Washington Post  

  January 21, 2012

Hans Heymann Jr., an economist who advised three US presidents on the Soviet Union and the Vietnam War - subjects he knew intimately as a key contributor to the top-secret history of the war known as the Pentagon Papers - died Jan. 10 at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington. He was 91.

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