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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 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 probably include attempts at infiltration, co-option, the planting of information and other forms of the spy's tradecraft in pursuit of their hidden agendas. Zehar Ebrahim's paper "Wikileaks and the Mighty Wurlitzer" is a good discussion of both the Wikileaks' Afghan War Diaries and the issue generally.

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

'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.