Wikileaks

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Wikileaks in its own words

WikiLeaks is a multi-jurisdictional public service designed to protect whistleblowers, journalists and activists who have sensitive materials to communicate to the public. Since July 2007, we have worked across the globe to obtain, publish and defend such materials, and, also, to fight in the legal and political spheres for the broader principles on which our work is based: the integrity of our common historical record and the rights of all peoples to create new history.

WikiSpooks Comment

Since its launch in 2007, WikiLeaks has released thousands of documents from countries around the world most of which, either governments or others in 'Authority', would prefer remained hidden. Most are easily available on the Wikileaks site, and make it a gold-mine of information for enterprising journalists to investigate and develop stories that are crying out for public scrutiny. It is a sad reflection on the Western MSM - subservient as it is by its very nature to the 'official narrative' - that to date (August 2010) their efforts can be summarised as something close to:

"tut-tut, this is dangerous and must be brought under control - or stopped"

That said, it should be born in mind that ANY web site seen as potentially subversive to established authority and "the official narrative", will quickly attract the attention of the SIS's once its readership and apparent influence reaches a certain threshold. Such attention can take many forms but will likely start with simple monitoring, before progressing through attempts at infiltration and/or co-option and the planting of information, to other less subtle forms of the spy's tradecraft, should they become necessary in pursuit of Establishment hidden agendas.

The SIS's and dissident organisations

For an in-depth discussion of the way in which dissident organisations are co-opted and or otherwise used, abused, controlled or discredited and destroyed see the following:

• Wikileaks and the Mighty Wurlitzer by Zehar Ebrahim (also available as a pdf file )

Articles and other information about the Wikileaks Afghan War Diaries

Broadly supportive

There is an extended series of articles by Arthur Silber on his "Once Upon a Time" blog in ardent support of Wikileaks which repay careful study. They also contain copius links to further information.

• Wikileaks, Resistance, Genuine Heroes and Breaking the Goddam Rules
• John Pilger on Why Wikileaks must be protected
• Wikileaks: The Real Stuff - Israel Shamir's blog

Wikileaks as a 'Limited Hangout' or 'is being used by Shhh you know who'

• LAME “LEAK” SITE NOTHING MORE THAN THIN COVER FOR “THE TEL AVIV TANGO” - Gordon Duff, Veterans Today 29 July 2010
• Hidden Intelligence Operation Behind the Wikileaks Release of "Secret" Documents? - William Engdahl "The Real Story of Wikileaks has not yet been told" - Global Research 11 August 2010.
• Wikileaks - The Real Stuff - A Response To Israel Shamir - by Joe Quinn. Scott.net 23 August 2010
• Document:Wikileaks and the Mighty Wurlitzer by Zahir Ebrahim - Also referenced above and a must-read

Puffed up outrage clearly in service to the official narrative

On the face of it the organisations listed here are bona-fide Establishment critics/dissidents. The problem is that they are large NGO's which, like Wikileaks itself, wiil ALWAYS be targets of the SIS's. The longer they are established, the more likely and thorough the penetration. In the case of Reporters Without Borders there is ample evidence of their complicity in furthering covert Western agendas in third world countries - especially Cuba and Venezuela

• Press freedom group joins condemnation of WikiLeaks' war logs - Reporters Without Borders accuses WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of 'incredible irresponsibility' over leaked documents. The Guardian 13 August 2010.
• Amnesty International, Human Rights Groups Ask Wikileaks To Censor Civilians' Names - Huffington Post 23 August 2010

Deep Background Information on Wikileaks

• This is a Google search of the Cryptome site. Cryptome has the most detailed and insightful inside track on Wikileaks of pretty well any other source. John Young, its operator, was the original registrant of the Wikileaks domain name. He resigned from further involvement with Wikileaks over its fund-raising ambitions and the full story of those early days is available from the links produced by this search.

WikiSpooks Acknowledgement

WikiLeaks is included on the WikiSpooks Acknowledgements page as a major source of content and inspiration when setting up the WikiSpooks site. It remains a 'Must Check' site when researching anything concerning WikiSpooks articles.

Some high-profile WikiLeaks leaks

CIA project to bolster European support for the Afghan War

On 26 March 2010, Wikileaks posted a classified CIA analysis of possible PR-strategies to shore up public support in Germany and France for continued war in Afghanistan. After the Dutch government fell on the issue of dutch troops in Afghanistan in April 2010, the CIA became worried that similar events could happen in the countries that post the third and fourth largest troop contingents to the ISAF-mission. The proposed PR strategies focus on pressure points that have been identified within these countries. For France it is the sympathy of the public for Afghan refugees and women. For Germany it is the fear of the consequences of defeat (drugs, more refugees, terrorism) as well as for Germany’s standing in NATO. The memo is a recipe for the targeted manipulation of public opinion in two NATO ally countries, written by the CIA. It is classified as Confidential / No Foreign Nationals.

The document provides detailed insights into the covert world of intelligence sponsored propaganda

The 'Collateral Murder' video

5th April 2010 10:44 EST WikiLeaks released a classified US military video depicting three airstrikes from a US Apache helicopter on July 12, 2007 in New Baghdad, Iraq. At least eighteen people were killed in the airstrikes, including two journalists working for Reuters, Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen.

The video was recorded by the gunsight camera on an Apache helicopter, identified as Crazyhorse 18, and is accompanied by the radio communications of the helicopter gunmen as they communicate with their commanders and troops on the ground.

The 'Afghan War Diary' reports

25th July 2010 5:00 PM EST WikiLeaks has released a document set called the Afghan War Diary, an extraordinary compendium of over 91,000 reports covering the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010.

The reports, while written by soldiers and intelligence officers, and mainly describing lethal military actions involving the United States military, also include intelligence information, reports of meetings with political figures, and related details.

The reports cover most units from the US Army with the exception of most US Special Forces' activities. The reports do not generally cover top secret operations or European and other ISAF Forces operations.

• Detailed data-searching and reading guides together with a map pinpointing each reported incident is available on a separate page
• Diary Dig is a separate, non-Wikileaks, site with comprehensive facilities to search and browse the entire database by any of the fields (categories) in the original data files :

DiaryDig.org is an independently produced website which provides an easy way to search through the Afghan War Diaries, which were made public by Wikileaks on 25th July 2010. The documents are a set of over 76,000 reports (with more coming in the future) which cover the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2009.

You can browse through all of the documents that have been released, organized by type, category, date, number of casualties, and many other properties. From any document page, clicking on the green underlined text will open a popup that links to other documents that contain those phrases, making it possible to see important search terms and connections that you might not otherwise notice.

Our hope is that this tool will be helpful to reporters and researchers who are interested in learning more about the US's war in Afghanistan and making sense of this important database. If you wish to support this work, we encourage you to make a donation to wikileaks or the Bradley Manning legal defense fund.

• Afghanistan and Pakistan Violent Event Analysis using ACLED and Wikileaks Data . This site contains pdf's of two thorough statistical analyses of the data contained in the 'Afghan War Diaries' leaked data.

'Afghan War Diaries' site mirror

From Cryptome :-

The Wikileaks Afghan War Diary files deserve very close study. The contaminating news reports, condemnations and 'blogwash' need to be surpassed. The WikiLeaks site is heavily loaded and slow. To ease the load and for a quicker download, Cryptome offers mirrors of the now digitally-hashed compressed file packages which were downloaded 27 July 2010, at about 4:40PM.

See Also

• File:Wikithreat.pdf - "US Intelligence planned to destroy Wikileaks" - A US "Army Counterintelligence Centre" Document released by WikiLeaks on 15 March 2010.
• File:WikiLeaks - Manning.doc - This document is connected to the arrest of 22 year old Bradley Manning for allegedly leaking 1/4 million classified US Diplomatic cables + video footage of US killings in Iraq to WikiLeaks.

Updates and Developments

• Prosecutors Eye WikiLeaks Charges - Wall Street Journal, 21 August 2010
• Wikileaks founder Julian Assange accused of rape - BBC News World 21 August 2010. (Has Assange fallen victim to a 'Honey trap'? - Time for Julian to cash it that 'insurance' policy? or are these charges to discredit Wikileaks or to enhance the perception that Assange is not a part of the intelligence services?)

Deception is the way of war ..... Hat tip to Kenny's Sideshow