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Dr. Larry L. Burriss, Ph.D., J.D. School of Journalism Middle Tennessee State University

America’s First Newspaper Leak: Tom Paine and the Disclosure of Secret French Aid to the United States. Dr. Larry L. Burriss, Ph.D., J.D. School of Journalism Middle Tennessee State University. Pierre A. Caron de Beaumarchais Writer (Marriage of Figaro) Low-level businessman

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Dr. Larry L. Burriss, Ph.D., J.D. School of Journalism Middle Tennessee State University

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  1. America’s First Newspaper Leak:Tom Paine and the Disclosure of Secret French Aid to the United States Dr. Larry L. Burriss, Ph.D., J.D. School of Journalism Middle Tennessee State University

  2. Pierre A. Caron de Beaumarchais Writer (Marriage of Figaro) Low-level businessman Charles Gravier, count of Vergennes French foreign minister Conrad Gerard First accredited French diplomat to U.S. Silas Deane Commissioner to France Businessman British spy? William Bingham Former secretary to Foreign Affairs Committee Congressional agent in Martinique Henry Laurens President of Continental Congress Arthur Lee Commissioner to France Thomas Paine (Common Sense) Secretary, Foreign Affairs Committee Newspaper writer John Dunlap Editor, Pennsylvania Packet Printer, Declaration of Independence Dramatis Personae

  3. Pierre A. Caron de Beaumarchais Writer (Marriage of Figaro) Low-level businessman

  4. Charles Gravier, count of Vergennes Foreign minister

  5. Conrad Gerard First accredited minister to U.S.

  6. Silas Deane Commissioner to France Businessman Spy for the British?

  7. William Bingham Former secretary to Foreign Affairs Committee Congressional agent in Martinique

  8. Henry Laurens President of Continental Congress

  9. Arthur Lee Commissioner to France

  10. Thomas Paine (Common Sense) Secretary, Foreign Affairs Committee Newspaper writer

  11. John Dunlap Editor, Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser Printer, Declaration of Independence

  12. Thomas Paine January 29, 1737 – Born in Thetford, Norfolk, England 1776 – 500,000 copies of Common Sense sold 1776 –The Crisis Papers 1787 – Goes to England 1791 – The Rights of Man ; indicted for treason 1792 – Escaped to France; imprisoned for treason 1794 – The Age of Reason 1802 – Returned to the United States June 8, 1809 – Died penniless in New Rochelle, New York

  13. “Invoice” (Arthur Lee) Comte de Vergennes Guns $ Lost (Captured by British?) Guns Invoice (Deane) Deane Guns Tobacco 2/3 lost William Bingham (Martinique) Continental Congress/ Continental Army Guns $ Beaumarchais (Roderique Hortalez Co.)

  14. Chronology

  15. Silas Deane letter to the Pennsylvania Packet, Dec. 5, 1778

  16. Chronology

  17. Thomas Paine letter to the Pennsylvania Packet, Jan. 2, 1779

  18. Chronology

  19. War of Words

  20. Results First resignation by a president (Laurens) First forced resignation by a government official First Congressional investigation of a newspaper (Pennsylvania Packet and John Dunlap) First investigation of confidential source Congress split along regional and economic lines: Northern merchants vs. Southern landowners

  21. America’s First Newspaper Leak:Tom Paine and the Disclosure of Secret French Aid to the United States Dr. Larry L. Burriss, Ph.D., J.D. School of Journalism Middle Tennessee State University

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