Leak

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Leak
Interest of	• DDoSecrets • Attila Hildmann • Rogue Media Labs • John Young
Exposure of information, whether real of fiction, deliberate or accidental

Leaks, especially in the 21^st century, are not always what they appear; although there are a lot of real leaks, there are also unofficial announcements, limited hangouts, modified limited hangouts, total fiction and occasionally blackmail material to make an example of the non-cooperative.

Edward Snowden Affair

Full article: Edward Snowden Affair

The Edward Snowden Affair lead to the normalisation of universal surveillance. No one is known to have been prosecuted for the illegal surveillance he exposed; indeed, various nation states retroactively legalised it. The fact that commercially-controlled media widely publicised it has lead to suggestions that it was a modified limited hangouts intended to achieve this effect.

Integrity Initiative Leak

Full article: Integrity Initiative/Leak

This exposed an organ of the UK Deep state which was working to try to promote Russophobia and Cold War 2.0. As of 2022, the source and precise nature of the leak are unclear, although the II/IfS claimed that it contained faked data (though interestingly being non-specific, so possibly just to strengthen plausible deniability if data of great moment surfaced).

 

Examples

Page name	Description
2010 United States diplomatic cables leak	Exposure by WikiLeaks of acquired diplomatic cables, between the United States Department of State and its diplomatic missions around the world. Many previously unknown statements or opinions about a variety topics have been revealed.
2010 United States diplomatic cables leak/Middle East	Exposure by WikiLeaks of acquired diplomatic cables, between the United States Department of State and its diplomatic missions around the world. Many previously unknown statements or opinions about a variety topics have been revealed. This page covers the Middle Eastern leaders, not their companies in particular.
2021 British Ministry of Defence leaks	A pile of 50 sensitive MOD documents are leaked.
COVID-19/Leaks	There have been several leaks of different aspects of the COVID-19 deep event. For example, in April 2020, a leak or hack of tens of thousands of Email account details related to the WIV, NIH, Gates foundation. Corporate media outlets are not very interested in any of these leaks.
Dark Side of the Kremlin	A leak of 175GB of Russian documents
Document:More than 500 jihadists cared for at the Ziv Medical Centre	Israel treats ISIS/Al-Qaeda fighters before returning them to fight in Syria
Edward Snowden Affair	Edward Snowden provides undisputed documentary evidence that the NSA and other intelligence agencies were engaged in illegal universal surveillance. The commercially-controlled media reports this extensively but does not call for prosecutions. The relevant governments pass legislation to retroactively legalise the crimes, explaining that this is necessary protection against "terrorists".
Epik data breach	Data breach in September 2021. Is Anonymous doing the job of the FBI for them because the facts aren't adding up.
Integrity Initiative/Leak	A series of 7 leaks, starting on 5 November 2018, of unknown origin and veracity. After some time, the II disputed the authenticity of some of the documents, but was not clear about which.
Kolomoysky on MH17
Langemann Papers	A famous leak of documents from Le Cercle by a respected senior BND officer.
Lockdown Files	Matt Hanchock has his WhatsApp messages leaked
Operation London Bridge	The plan for what will happen in the United Kingdom after the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
Panama Papers	A huge (2.6TB) cache of confidential documents created by the Panamanian corporate service provider Mossack Fonseca that provide detailed information on more than 214,000 offshore companies, including the identities of shareholders and directors. Those identified include numerous wealthy and powerful political figures and organisations of many countries.
Pandora Papers	The most expansive leak of tax haven files in history
Paradise Papers	A set of 13.4 million confidential electronic documents about use of tax havens to house around $10 trillion. The highly skewed nature of the exposure (very little from the US) suggest it was a modified hangout
Project Pegasus revelations	Mass leak of info about Israel spyware
The Twitter Files	Elon Musk buying Twitter resulted in the exposure of internal Twitter Inc documents
Wikileaks/Leak	A list of scandals revealed by Wikileaks
Wikileaks/Vault 7	Release of electronic surveillance and cyber warfare tools from the CIA arsenal.
Wikileaks/Vault 8	A leak of some of the source code of the Vault 7 leaks.

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author	Date
US/Deep state	“The apparatus of the American deep state is a vast system of institutions in which the proverbial right arm does not know what the left one is doing. The CIA, FBI, NSA and the military services are compartmentalized to a point where very few of the bureaucrats in their employ can put their finger precisely on what is going on. Best known examples of that kind of entity are the resistance movements in German occupied Europe of World War II, and the cell system of an expansionist communist movement in the early stages of its development. Movie goers are familiar with the ‘need to know’ limitations on the information given to participants in an operation. The numerous levels of ‘security clearance’ make that clear. They have created labyrinths of hidden policy making over which no effective political control can exist. This applies to internal control as well. The institutions of the American deep state are riven by turf battles, schisms, something quite noticeable in their conflict with President Trump and, indeed, eruptions from officials with a conscience. This produces leaks and whistleblowing. These may be seen as emergency actions in the absence of functioning accountability structures.”	Karel van Wolferen	4 April 2017

 

An official example

Name
Afghanistan Papers

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