Whistleblower

If you are considering becoming a whistleblower,
be warned that the official narrative about "Whistleblower Protection" is basically a lie.
Before proceeding further, you are recommended to read this essay, and the stories of some of the whistleblowers listed below.

Whistleblower
Interest of	• Dr. David Bell • Courage Foundation • Georgina Halford-Hall • National Security Whistleblowers Coalition • Project Veritas • US/Office of Special Counsel • Wikileaks
Subpage(s)	•"Whistleblower/Protection" •Whistleblower/Premature death
Someone who exposes wrongdoing which they have witnessed or deduced, typically by being privy to inside information while at work.

A whistleblower has inside knowledge of activities usually concealed from the general public and reveals this out of a concern for the public good, especially in cases of malfeasance. The word "whistleblower" was coined by Ralph Nader. The insider testimony of whistleblowers means that they are invaluable in Wikispooks' mission to shed light on the murky business of deep politics.

Official narrative

The official narrative is that whistleblowers are welcomed as long as they act in the public interest. Many nations and other large organisations have enacted "Whistleblower Protection" measures specifically designed to protect whistleblowers. These encourage whistleblowing by offering statutory protection and/or financial rewards for those who expose wrongdoing.

"Protection"

Full article: Whistleblower protection

Legal vindication for whistleblowers is rare. More often than not, what is called "whistleblower protection" is in practice no such thing and less than 1/10 of those who follow official whistleblowing procedures report any benefit from doing so. Researcher Brian Martin describes them as "trojan horses". Since 9/11 in particular, the official narrative is belied by ever harsher treatment of actual or would be whistleblowers, up to and including the murder of the those who show themselves intent on publicising particularly sensitive information.

Legal compensation

Some jurisdictions award a fixed percentage of money recovered to whistleblowers who expose financial fraud. Although initially jailed, Brad Birkenfeld eventually received over $100 million on this basis.

Support groups

In 2004, FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds launched the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition to try to assist other whistleblowers. In December 2013, speaking at the CCC conference, purported MI6 whistleblower, Annie Machon, announced that she would be starting the Courage Foundation to protect whistleblowers.

Fake whistleblowers

Purported "whistleblowers" can still serve deep state interests. Millie Weaver's Statecraft mentions how Eric Ciaramella pretended to be a whistleblower about information actually garnered through illegal mass surveillance.

Premature deaths

Full article: Whistleblower/Premature death

Some whistleblowers have experienced premature deaths, whether of bona fide natural causes, suicide, murder or assassination.

Surveillance

In 2010 HBGary proposed the development of a rootkit that in addition to full system access, would take into account keystrokes and mouse movements to evaluate the normal psychological state of an individual and from there, calculate if a person is likely to commit an action against his employer.

 

Examples

Page name	Exposed	Description	Died	Death cause	Death location
9-11/Whistleblowers	9-11	Many people have sought to share important evidence about 9/11, using inside knowledge from a professional capacity.
Bo Abbott	CIA/Drug trafficking	A drug trafficking pilot who attempted to blow the whistle on the CIA's illegal drug trafficking but who disappeared - i.e. was probably assassinated
Stanley Adams		Hoffmann-LaRoche whistleblower who was jailed for industrial espionage when found out.	2016
Gary Aguirre	U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission	An SEC whistleblower
Herbert Amry	Noricum scandal	Diplomat whistleblower who exposed the Noricum scandal. Died suddenly.	11 July 1985		Athens
Kevin Annett	Canada/Genocide	When he reported that the church of which he was a minister had been involved in genocide, Rev. Kevin Annett was told to shut up. He didn't. He researched the topic and wrote books and made a movie about it. His Wikipedia page has been deleted at least 4 times as "non-notable" because he has been blacklisted with dynamic silence by corporate media. He continues to expose institutional corruption and child abuse.
Suchir Balaji	OpenAI	Found dead some months after blowing the whistle on OpenAI	26 November 2024		San Francisco
John Barnett	Boeing	Employee and whistleblower on Boeing. Dound dead, ruled a "suicide".	2024		US South Carolina Charleston
Dr. David Bell	UK/Deep state	A British whistleblower
Scott Bennett	Booz Allen Hamilton US/Deep state "Terrorism/Financing" US/DOJ	Spent 2 years in jail as a result of speaking his mind and attempting to blow the whistle on fraud and corruption inside the US war machine.	22 November 2024	Cancer
Patrick Berghy	ShadowNet	IT security specialist who appears prominently in Millie Weaver's 2020 film Shadowgate.
Ronald Bernard		Alleged Dutch whistleblower who in 2017 had an interview released in which he said that he was recruited by an organised crime network, initially to launder money, but later was asked if he wanted to participate in human sacrifice.
John Ashley Berry	GCHQ Mass surveillance	Whistleblower from GCHQ arrested with two journalists, Crispin Aubrey and Duncan Campbell, and charged with "communicating classified information to unauthorised persons"
Steve Bigelow	MICC/Corruption	US Air Force whistleblower who exposed MICC corruption.
Brad Birkenfeld	UBS	A banker who exposed massive tax fraud at UBS, and after 2½ years in jail was eventually paid $104M for his pains.
Thomas Bittler	TSA	TSA whistleblower, dismissed along with Ray Guagliardi.
Svein Blindheim	Norway/Stay Behind	Resistance hero who later revealed Stay Behind activities, and was convicted to prison for it.	17 March 2013
Tony Bobulinski	Hunter Biden	Former business partner of Hunter Biden who exposed some of his business dealings
Andrew Bogut	COVID-19/Lockdown	A basketball player who stated in 2020 that he was offered money if he would promote the COVID-19 Lockdown
Abraham Bolden	Warren Commission	Secret Service agent convicted on bogus charges when he blew the whistle to the Warren Commission.
Christopher Boyce	Australia/1975 coup	A code clerk turned counter spook who also tried to see secret to the USSR, got caught, escaped and caught again. He revealed how the CIA was involved in the 1975 Australian coup.
Gordon Douglas Brown	De Beers	Exposed massive corruption by De Beers	21 February 2014
Peter van Buren	2003 Iraq War	Foreign Service official who exposed the extremely wasteful and ineffective spending during the reconstruction effort after the 2003 Iraq War.
Chris Busby	Chris Busby/Research on The Health Risks of Radiation	An independent scientist whose work demonstrates that inadequate risk models are used by the establishment in its estimation of the health impact of low dose exposure to radiation. A concerted campaign has tried to undermine his credibility because his message challenges the status quo.
John Buse	GlaxoSmithKline Avandia	When he warned of risks with GlaxoSmithKline diabetes drug Avandia, the company blackmail him into to a retraction by threatening to destroy his academic career and a huge lawsuit for loss in stock value.
Smedley Butler	War profiteering US/Marine Corps The Business Plot	A US general who exposed the coup that financiers had planned for USA.	21 June 1940		US Pennsylvania Philadelphia
Peter Buxtun	Tuskegee syphilis experiment	Blew the whistle on the Tuskegee syphilis experiment.
Ronald Bye	Norway/Deep state Norway/Stay Behind	Norwegian politician who exposed the Norwegian Stay Behind and Norwegian deep state.	24 September 2018
Jane Bürgermeister		Against the concerted opposition of Big Pharma, Jane Bürgermeister has attempted to highlight risks and malfeasance associated with vaccines and emerging diseases.
CIA/Whistleblower		People who went public about wrongdoing in the CIA.
John Carman	US/Customs and Border Protection	Set up a website about his experience of corruption in the US/Customs and Border Protection
Celerino Castillo	CIA/Drug trafficking "Iran-Contra" Operation Fast and Furious	A former DEA agent who exposed deep state involvement in drug trafficking.
William Chasey	CIA plans to assassinate the Libyan Lockerbie suspects	CIA operative who was effectively hounded out of Washington following publication of Pan Am 103: The Lockerbie Cover-up	23 May 2015
David Christensen	JFK/Assassination	A member of the USAF who had foreknowledge of the JFK assassination which was presented to the HSCA
Helen Chu	COVID-19/Pandemic	An expert in infectious diseases whom the CDC told to stop her tests for COVID-19 in January 2020.
Eric Ciaramella		Not all whistleblowers are as genuine.
Wesley Clark	US/Foreign policy	“In 2001, in the Pentagon, a general told me : ‘I just received a classified memo from the Secretary of Defense: we will take seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and finally, Iran.’”
Jessica Collins		A woman that accused Epstein, Deborah Palfrey and Joe Biden of sexual abuse.
Greg Coppola	Google	Google employee for 5 years before exposing their political bias in 2019.
Bud Culligan	Assassination	Described the plane, the route and how he shot Hammarskjöld’s plane.	September 2010
Clint Curtis	Election/Fraud Yang Enterprises	Programmer, vote rigging whistleblower, politician, and election integrity activist.
Edward Cutolo	Operation Watchtower	A drug smuggler who named a lot of names about the CIA's drug trafficking, and who then died a sudden death, as did many of those he named.	26 May 1980	Car crash	Scunthorpe UK
Matt DeHart	2001 Anthrax attacks	US hacker who claimed to have received documents about the CIA's role in the 2001 Anthrax attacks. Later arrested for child pornography.
Eugene Dinkin	JFK/Assassination	AN "unsung hero" spook who intercepted a communication about the JFK assassination. Shared this with journalists in the press room of the United Nations office in Geneva. Smeared as having poor mental health	21 May 2012
Jacques Duchesneau		Former president and chief executive officer of the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority.
Sibel Edmonds	Operation Gladio/B Peter Hoekstra Fethullah Gülen US/Deep state SDS	Sibel Edmonds was recruited by the FBI as a translator in the wake of 9/11. She quickly turned whistleblower when she discovered security breaches, cover-ups and malpractice at numerous levels. The US government has made her "the most gagged person in the history of the United States".
John Ehrlichman	"War on Drugs"	Nixon insider who blew in 1994 the whistle on the "War on Drugs"	14 February 1999		US Georgia Atlanta
Tomer Eiges	IDF	Attempted whistleblower at the Israeli Military Intelligence Directorate who died in military prison aged 25/26	16 May 2021
Daniel Ellsberg	Pentagon Papers	A feted whistleblower who exposed some details of how the US government was waging the Vietnam War. The fact that he was not persecuted has lead several commentators to suggest that he may not in fact have been all he appears to be. Specifically, the Pentagon Papers may have been a limited hangout.	16 June 2023
Rudolf Elmer	Rudolf Elmer	A banking whistleblower.
... further results

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Tom Lloyd	“Helping people who are being persecuted for doing the right thing needs experience, specialist knowledge, attention to detail and perseverance. At WhistleblowersUK we use our expertise and commitment to ensure that whistleblowers have the support they need when they need it most.”	Tom Lloyd
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

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:NSA GCHQ and the Death of Gareth Williams	article	14 November 2011	Trowbridge Ford	A speculative article connecting the NSA with the death of Gareth Williams
Document:Whistleblowers - Risks and skills	book chapter	2007	Brian Martin	A sound set of advice for would be whistleblowers, and a strong discouragement from trusting the official channels. As a whistleblower, you need to be aware that a wide set of options is available, and your success in blowing the whistle will depend only in part upon the injustice you expose. Another crucial aspect is your skill set and support network. This essay provides sound advice from an establishment-sceptic researcher who has reviewed a lot of whistleblowing cases.
Document:Wikileaks - Open Letter to the US Government	open letter	14 July 2011	RevolutionTruth

 

Official examples

Name	Exposed	Description	Died	Death location
Julian Assange		A "hacktivist" of mysterious background, whose website, Wikileaks, has been the conduit for a lot of whistleblowing. His pronounced disinterest in 9/11 is particularly notable.
Dr. David Bell	UK/Deep state	A British whistleblower
Mark Felt		The supposed true identity of 'deep throat', who played a part in the Watergate Coup.	18 December 2008	California Santa Rosa
Frances Haugen		Facebook whistleblower?
Calley Means		Health expert "from CIA central casting"
Casey Means		Health expert "from CIA central casting"
David Shayler	1994 London Israeli Embassy attack	An MI5 agent turned 'whistleblower' who didn't reveal very much but has since associated himself with some of the most dubious end of those questioning the official narrative. Some believe he is still working for MI5.
Edward Snowden	Mass surveillance NSA/Boundless Informant NSA/PRISM MonsterMind	IT specialist and former contractor for the NSA, Edward Snowden's 2013 leaks about their mass surveillance programs were widely reported by the corporate media, an interesting contrast to the leaks of earlier whistleblowers that were roundly ignored.
Jack Teixeira		Spooky "whistleblower" from the Massachusetts National Guard intelligence wing who reportedly leaked documents online, aged 21.
WhistleblowersUK		UK group chaired since November 2015 by the former Institute for Statecraft head of security, Tom Lloyd.
Reality Winner
Christopher Wylie		Alleged "whistleblower" exposing the nothingburger Cambridge Analytica
Li-Meng Yan

Rating

18 July 2016 Robin  A good selection of important whistleblowers neglected by corporate media.
There are a few gaps, and whistleblowers who don't even get a mention, this is a thought provoking selection which should give you an idea of what corporate media have been censoring.

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