"It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn't want the question raised, 'What's your relationship with Daniel Ellsberg?' And not one of them wrote me a letter because they didn't want a letter of theirs to show up in my trash - which the FBI had been going through"

This quote by Daniel Ellsberg talks to the worry and mistrust that the Rand Corporation had towards him. After Ellsberg released the Pentagon Papers, the Rand Corporation was wary of any association with him. It was a good 15 or 20 years before anybody at Rand would remain in the same space with him, and they were so scared of being connected with him that they didn't even compose him a letter. This speaks to the level of paranoia that the Rand Corporation had towards Ellsberg, as they were afraid that any correspondence with him would be found by the FBI in his garbage. This quote reveals the lengths that the Rand Corporation went to in order to distance themselves from Ellsberg and the debate surrounding the Pentagon Papers.