The Wikileaks Question

[seemslikeadream]

There's also this, which is certainly true for today and at least the next couple of days if not weeks:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/di ... 93#9646406

Don't bring fuckin' DU into this Jack! Unless you can show me that they are able to discuss Israel in GD. It is bullshit other wise and not worth clickin on the link

let alone all the websites that are banned from DU. It's censorship and no truth will come of it.


Did ya know they were watching all links to RawStory (accusing them of plagerism), Break for news, IndyMedia, Information Clearing House, ZMag, CounterPunch, Scoop, Juan Cole, Juan fuckinCole??? DemocraticWarrior, Brad Blog, Al Jazeera and of course AntiWar? And more

[nathan28]

I'm open to all sorts of ideas of what may be going on, as long as people aren't transparently jumping to their own a priori conclusions in the absence of evidence or argument.

Right. The LIHOP routine got old about seven years ago, but carry on.

Right. The 9/11 Truth routine hasn't been relevant for about seven years, but carry on.

[seemslikeadream]

This is Project Willow's post and I think it needs to be in every Wiki thread just cause I've like Emory for a very long time

Wiki of the Damned]

FTR #724 Wiki of the Damned
Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ October 19, 2010Post a comment Email This Post Email This Post Print This Post Print This Post
Tags CIA, Cults, Drug, Earth Island, LSD, Mind Control, MKULTRA, Third Position, Underground Reich, UNPO, Vatican




Intro­duc­tion: The first of two pro­grams deal­ing with Wik­iLeaks, this broad­cast exam­ines an intel­li­gence–con­nected mind con­trol cult with which Wik­iLeaks king­pin Julian Assange appears to be affil­i­ated. As well con­nected as it is ruth­less and crim­i­nal, the San­ti­nike­tan Park Asso­ci­a­tion of Anne Hamilton-Byrne con­di­tioned chil­dren with drugs, sen­sory depri­va­tion, sleep depri­va­tion, tor­ture and rit­ual sex­ual abuse in order to pro­duce sub­jects who bent to the will of the group’s leader.

Although Assange (pic­tured at left) claims to have been “on the run” from the cult, his claims of links to Aus­tralian intel­li­gence plus his strange, “plat­inum” col­ored hair (dis­tinc­tive of chil­dren raised in the group) sug­gest that the con­nec­tions may run much deeper. (Recall in this con­text that the group prac­tices rig­or­ous, sophis­ti­cated mind-control method­ol­ogy and Assange him­self may be sin­cerely unaware of the depth of his appar­ent links to the group. The orga­ni­za­tion also devel­ops mul­ti­ple iden­ti­ties for the chil­dren raised in its ranks, as well as obtain­ing mul­ti­ple pass­ports for them. Assange’s mother claims his hair turned white fol­low­ing a dif­fi­cult cus­tody case involv­ing a child of his. As will be seen later, Assange claims that Aus­tralian intel­li­gence has advised him, and there is an appar­ent link between Aus­tralian intel­li­gence and the cult.)


The title of the pro­gram comes from two sci-fi/horror movies from the late 1950’s and 60’s called Chil­dren of the Damned and Vil­lage of the Damned. Both movies fea­tured a gen­er­a­tion of platinum-blonde chil­dren with psycho-kinetic pow­ers, preter­nat­ural intel­li­gence and a really, really bad atti­tude. The chil­dren are pic­tured in a pro­mo­tional poster for the film in the upper left. Cult leader Hamilton-Byrne (inset) and her “chil­dren” are pic­tured above and at right. A still from the film is at right. Assange is pic­tured twice at left. Is this a case of life imi­tat­ing art?

Pos­sess­ing con­sid­er­able wealth, in con­trol of its own psy­chi­atric hos­pi­tal, com­posed largely of well-heeled pro­fes­sional peo­ple, uti­lized as an exper­i­men­ta­tion cen­ter by one of Australia’s lead­ing Catholic psy­chol­o­gists, linked to the Aus­tralian min­is­ter over­see­ing that country’s intel­li­gence ser­vice, the “Fam­ily” as they like to be called, used these con­nec­tions to escape the pun­ish­ment that would cer­tainly have fol­lowed their activ­i­ties. Avail­able evi­dence sug­gests that the group is an intel­li­gence front.

Even for­mer cult mem­bers who have turned on the orga­ni­za­tion have been drawn back into its fold and rec­on­ciled with Anne Hamilton-Byrne.

Tar­get­ing Rus­sia, China and some of the Cen­tral Asian states that emerged fol­low­ing the breakup of the Soviet Union, Wik­iLeaks has pur­sued a polit­i­cal agenda that smacks of a Third Position/UNPO/Underground Reich polit­i­cal ori­en­ta­tion. The group has also stung the United States, mak­ing an already dif­fi­cult Afghanistan pol­icy that much more dif­fi­cult fol­low­ing their leaks of key U.S. doc­u­ments about NATO involve­ment in that country.

Pro­gram High­lights Include: The group’s exces­sive secre­tive­ness; the group’s lack of can­dor about their sources of financ­ing in par­tic­u­lar; phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal com­pany Sandoz’s alleged dis­pens­ing of free LSD to Fam­ily; par­tial dis­cus­sion of Wik­iLeaks’ con­nec­tions to the milieu of Pirate Bay and Swedish fas­cist financier Carl Lund­strom; the Hamilton-Byrne cult’s “car­ing” for Lord Casey, the Aus­tralian cab­i­net mem­ber charged with over­sight of the Aus­tralian intel­li­gence agency; the Hamilton-Byrne cult’s close asso­ci­a­tion with Catholic psy­chol­o­gist Ronald Con­way; Conway’s alleged molesta­tion of peo­ple asso­ci­ated with the cult; Conway’s role as an expert com­men­ta­tor on the Church’s molesta­tion scandals.

1. The pro­gram begins with dis­cus­sion of a cult with which Assange appears to have been affil­i­ated, although he min­i­mizes his con­nec­tion to them. It is worth not­ing that flee­ing this cult appar­ently dom­i­nated much of his life at this point, yet the group’s pow­er­ful con­nec­tions appear to have allowed them to track him and his mother.

In light of the appar­ent mind con­trol tech­niques prac­ticed by the group, indi­ca­tions of the group’s pos­si­ble intel­li­gence con­nec­tions, as well as delib­er­ate and exten­sive oper­a­tions to obfus­cate the iden­tity of cult mem­bers, one should take much of what Assange says about his rela­tion­ship to the group with a grain of salt. Might he be a mem­ber of the cult, who was “sheep-dipped” to mask his links to the group?

Assange’s own track record indi­cates a record of delib­er­ate, elu­sive behav­ior and statements.

. . . . When Assange was eight, Claire left her hus­band and began see­ing a musi­cian, with whom she had another child, a boy. The rela­tion­ship was tem­pes­tu­ous; the musi­cian became abu­sive, she says, and they sep­a­rated. A fight ensued over the cus­tody of Assange’s half brother, and Claire felt threat­ened, fear­ing that the musi­cian would take away her son. Assange recalled her say­ing, “Now we need to dis­ap­pear,” and he lived on the run with her from the age of eleven to six­teen. When I asked him about the expe­ri­ence, he told me that there was evi­dence that the man belonged to a pow­er­ful cult called the Family—its motto was “Unseen, Unknown, and Unheard.” Some mem­bers were doc­tors who per­suaded moth­ers to give up their new­born chil­dren to the cult’s leader, Anne Hamilton-Byrne. The cult had moles in gov­ern­ment, Assange sus­pected, who pro­vided the musi­cian with leads on Claire’s where­abouts. In fact, Claire often told friends where she had gone, or hid in places where she had lived before. . . .

“No Secrets” by Jeff Khatch­a­tourian; The New Yorker; 6/7/2010.

2. Wikipedia gives a nice overview of the group. Note that Wikipedia should, as a rule, be scru­ti­nized very care­fully. It is fre­quently in error. When sources and links check out, as they do here, it is gen­er­ally reliable.

Around 1964 Dr Raynor John­son was host­ing reg­u­lar meet­ings of a reli­gious and philo­soph­i­cal dis­cus­sion group led by Hamilton-Byrne at San­ti­nike­tan, his home at Ferny Creek in the Dan­de­nong Ranges on the east­ern out­skirts of Mel­bourne. Also con­nected was a series of weekly talks he gave at the Coun­cil of Adult Edu­ca­tion in Mel­bourne, enti­tled “The Macro­cosm and the Micro­cosm”. The group pur­chased an adjoin­ing prop­erty which they named San­ti­nike­tan Park [1] in 1968 and con­structed a meet­ing hall, San­ti­nike­tan Lodge.

The asso­ci­a­tion con­sisted of mid­dle class, pro­fes­sional peo­ple; it has been esti­mated that a quar­ter were nurses and other med­ical per­son­nel, and that many were recruited by John­son who referred them to Hamilton-Byrne’s hatha yoga classes.[2] Mem­bers mainly lived in nearby sub­urbs and town­ships in the Dan­de­nongs, meet­ing each Tues­day, Thurs­day and Sun­day evening [3] at San­ti­nike­tan Lodge, Crowther House in Olinda or another prop­erty in the area known as the White Lodge [4].

Dur­ing the late 1960s and 1970s Newhaven Hos­pi­tal in Kew was a pri­vate psy­chi­atric hos­pi­tal owned and man­aged by Mar­ion Vil­limek, a San­ti­nike­tan mem­ber; many of its staff and attend­ing psy­chi­a­trists were also members.

Many patients at Newhaven were treated with the hal­lu­cino­genic drug LSD [7]. The hos­pi­tal was used to recruit poten­tial new mem­bers from among the patients, and also to admin­is­ter LSD to mem­bers under the direc­tion of the San­ti­nike­tan psy­chi­a­trists Dr John Mackay and Dr Howard Whitaker . One of the orig­i­nal mem­bers of the Asso­ci­a­tion was given LSD, elec­tro­con­vul­sive ther­apy and two leu­co­tomies dur­ing the late 1960s.

Although the psy­chi­atric hos­pi­tal had been closed down by 1992, in that year a new inquest was ordered into the death of a Newhaven patient in 1975 after new claims that his death had been due to deep sleep ther­apy. The inquest heard evi­dence con­cern­ing the use of elec­tro­con­vul­sive ther­apy, LSD and other prac­tices at Newhaven but found no evi­dence that deep sleep had been used on this patient. The Newhaven build­ing was later reopened as a nurs­ing home with no con­nec­tions to its pre­vi­ous owner or uses.

Anne Hamilton-Byrne acquired four­teen infants and young chil­dren between about 1968 and 1975. Some were the nat­ural chil­dren of San­ti­nike­tan mem­bers, oth­ers had been obtained through irreg­u­lar adop­tions arranged by lawyers, doc­tors and social work­ers within the group who could bypass the nor­mal processes. The children’s iden­ti­ties were changed using false birth cer­tifi­cates or deed poll, all being given the sur­name ‘Hamilton-Byrne’ and dressed alike even to the extent of their hair being dyed uni­formly blonde[11].

The chil­dren were kept in seclu­sion and home-schooled at Kia Lama, a rural prop­erty usu­ally referred to as “Uptop”, at Tay­lor Bay on Lake Eil­don near the town of Eil­don, Vic­to­ria. They were taught that Anne Hamilton-Byrne was their bio­log­i­cal mother, and knew the other adults in the group as ‘aun­ties’ and ‘uncles’ They were denied almost all access to the out­side world, and sub­jected to a dis­ci­pline that included fre­quent cor­po­ral pun­ish­ment and star­va­tion diets.

The chil­dren were fre­quently dosed with the psy­chi­atric drugs Anaten­sol, Diazepam, Haloperi­dol, Largac­til, Mogadon, Serepax, Ste­lazine, Tegre­tol or Tofranil[4]. On reach­ing ado­les­cence they were com­pelled to undergo an ini­ti­a­tion involv­ing LSD[13]: while under the influ­ence of the drug the child would be left in a dark room, alone apart from vis­its by Hamilton-Byrne or one of the psy­chi­a­trists from the group[4].

“San­ti­nike­tan Park Asso­ci­a­tion”; Wikipedia.

3. More about the cult, from an arti­cle about a long-overdue bust of the group. Note the dif­fi­culty law enforce­ment had in bring­ing this group to jus­tice. One of many indi­ca­tions that the orga­ni­za­tion was “connected.”

The leader of Australia’s most noto­ri­ous cult, The Fam­ily, remains unre­pen­tant two decades after the raid that shocked the nation.

Anne Hamilton-Byrne broke her silence yes­ter­day, say­ing she was ready to die after rec­on­cil­ing with Sarah Moore, the “daugh­ter” who betrayed her to the authorities.

The Fam­ily made head­lines around the world in 1987 when the Aus­tralian Fed­eral Police and Com­mu­nity Ser­vices Vic­to­ria raided the cult’s prop­erty at Lake Eil­don and took six chil­dren into care.

Police later found 14 chil­dren had been brought up in almost com­plete iso­la­tion believ­ing they were the off­spring of Hamilton-Byrne and her late hus­band Bill.

In fact none of them was the Hamilton-Byrnes’, but chil­dren of sin­gle moth­ers who had been pres­sured into giv­ing them up for adop­tion or cult mem­bers who did not want them.

But it was the way the chil­dren had been treated that really shocked the nation.

Hamilton-Byrne had ordered the children’s hair be dyed per­ox­ide blonde and they be dressed in iden­ti­cal outfits.

It was also alleged they had been half-starved, beaten and forced to take large quan­ti­ties of tran­quilis­ers to “calm them down” and even fed LSD when they became adults.

Now, in the first ever inter­view at her sprawl­ing Olinda com­pound, the cult leader has defended how she raised the chil­dren and attacked those who said she mis­treated them as “lying bas­tards”. Of her crit­ics, she said: “I would love to put them right, but I can’t.” . . .

“Anne Hamilton-Byrne, Leader of the Fam­ily, Unre­pen­tant but Ready to Die” by James Camp­bell; Her­ald Sun; 8/16/2009.

4. More about the prac­tices of the group, from a police­man who helped to bring them to heel:

Lex De Man, the police­man who spent five years bring­ing The Fam­ily cult leader Anne Hamilton-Byrne to jus­tice, is still haunted by the case and its toll on every­one involved.

And while proud that Oper­a­tion For­est, the task­force on which he worked from 1989 to 1994, even­tu­ally secured her con­vic­tion for per­jury, he is still angry Hamilton-Byrne escaped pun­ish­ment for alleged mal­treat­ment of the chil­dren in her care.

Mr De Man said Hamilton-Byrne was lucky the chil­dren who had endured beat­ings, drug­gings and star­va­tion at The Family’s Lake Eil­don prop­erty were too trau­ma­tised to tes­tify against their alleged tormentor.

“One girl looked like she was seven but was, in fact, 11. She was suf­fer­ing from psycho-social dwarfism,” Mr De Man said.

“I didn’t think at that time – and even today – that many of the kids would be able to sus­tain giv­ing evi­dence in the wit­ness box. I think they’d been dam­aged too much.”

The detective’s deci­sion to go after Hamilton-Byrne for fal­si­fy­ing doc­u­ments came in 1991 when the cult’s solic­i­tor, Peter Kibby, decided to co-operate with police.

“Doc­u­ments don’t lie. Peo­ple lie on doc­u­ments. A doc­u­ment might be false, but it’s a human being that puts the infor­ma­tion on it,” Mr De Man said.

Kibby then per­suaded one of the for­mer “Aun­ties”, Pat Mac­Far­lane, to make a statement.

After months of inter­views, and later armed with the evi­dence to secure a war­rant to arrest Hamilton-Byrne, police still took three years to find her.

“Painful Jus­tice” by James Camp­bell; The Her­ald Sun; 8/16/2009.

5a. Another indi­ca­tion of seri­ous insti­tu­tional sup­port for the cult con­cerns the par­tic­i­pa­tion in their activ­i­ties of Ronald Con­way. One of Australia’s most promi­nent Catholic intel­lec­tu­als, Con­way appears to have engaged in molesta­tion of chil­dren placed in his care. Con­way has also writ­ten dis­mis­sively of com­plaints of sex­ual abuse against Catholic priests.

. . . Conway’s auto­bi­og­ra­phy says that he began his LSD exper­i­ments at St Vincent’s Hos­pi­tal. And for­mer patients say that Con­way also admin­is­tered LSD to them at the Newhaven psy­chi­atric hos­pi­tal which was sit­u­ated at 86 Nor­manby Road, Kew, in Melbourne’s inner east.

In the late 1960s and dur­ing the 1970s, Newhaven hos­pi­tal was owned and man­aged by Mar­ion Vil­limek, a mem­ber of a “New Age” sect called the San­ti­nike­tan Park Asso­ci­a­tion, also known as “The Fam­ily”. A leader of the sect, Anne Hamilton-Byrne, was also an admin­is­tra­tor at the Newhaven. Con­way, Eric Seal and other ther­a­pists hired con­sult­ing rooms there on a ses­sional basis, and were not involved with the sect. Newhaven ceased being a hos­pi­tal in 1992.

Ronald Con­way became one of Australia’s most promi­nent Catholic intel­lec­tu­als, writ­ing books and news­pa­per arti­cles about Aus­tralian soci­ety. He also appeared in radio and tele­vi­sion dis­cus­sion pro­grams as a psy­chol­o­gist and social commentator.

When the church’s sex­ual scan­dals became news in Aus­tralia in the 1990s, Con­way some­times com­mented on the issues of celibacy and sex­ual abuse. . . .

“Ronald Con­way: The Hands-On Psy­chol­o­gist Who Helped the Catholic Church’s Trainee Priests”; clericalwhispers.blogspot.com; 5/17/2010.

5b. As one wag who blogged about the San­ti­nike­tan Park Asso­ci­a­tion observed; “What good is an LSD mind con­trol reli­gious cult sex­ual abuse story with­out the Catholic Church mak­ing a guest appearance?”

. . . “After sev­eral ses­sions with Con­way, it was sug­gested that I undergo LSD ther­apy in Newhaven Pri­vate Hos­pi­tal as an overnight patient. It was explained to me that this ther­apy was a way to fast-track psy­cho­analy­sis and would be very help­ful in accept­ing my sex­u­al­ity. Con­way, as a psy­chol­o­gist, had no qual­i­fi­ca­tions to admin­is­ter drugs. I did not under­stand this at the time.

“Dur­ing the last ses­sion I came to believe that I had been in the pres­ence of God who autho­rized me to lead the sex­ual life which had been cho­sen for me.

“Con­way then sug­gested that I con­tinue to see him with­out the use of LSD.I explained to him that my finances were stretched and that it was not pos­si­ble. He said that it was impor­tant that I con­tinue to see him and that if I were will­ing he would see me at his home in Tor­ring­ton Street, Can­ter­bury, gratis.

“What a shock I got when one night he made advances to me and we ended up on the floor of his sit­ting room. The room was dec­o­rated as if it were the inside of an Egypt­ian tomb. He said this should not have hap­pened but that, as it had, we should do it prop­erly in his bed­room. It was a spar­tan room with the bed cov­ers on a sin­gle bed already turned down and elec­tric bar heaters turned on rest­ing on tables either side.

…”In the early 1990s, when I was 48 years of age, I was a patient in the Freemason’s Hos­pi­tal and woke up one after­noon to find Ron Con­way sit­ting on my bed hold­ing my hand. He had heard from some­one that I was in hos­pi­tal. I made it clear that I was not happy with his pres­ence .He explained to me that he had been fol­low­ing my life through a work col­league of mine, another psychologist.

“Ron Con­way never appeared again.” . . .

Idem.

6. A more detailed–and con­se­quently more horrifying–account of the cult’s prac­tices was pre­sented by dis­si­dent mem­ber Sarah Moore, who even­tu­ally rec­on­ciled with Anne Hamilton-Byrne. Note the “breed­ing pro­gram” alluded to here, as well as the use of mul­ti­ple iden­ti­ties, birth­dates and passports.

Note also, Moore’s indi­ca­tion that ene­mies of the group had “disappeared.”

My mother was Anne Hamilton-Byrne, the leader of a small sect in the Dan­de­nongs called the Fam­ily or the Great White Broth­er­hood. I was a small part of her plan to col­lect chil­dren in what she her­self once called a “sci­en­tific exper­i­ment”. Later I dis­cov­ered it was her inten­tion that we chil­dren would con­tinue her sect after the earth was con­sumed by a holo­caust. She saw us as the “inher­i­tors of the earth”. I didn’t know that then. In those days I was just a child. A child of a guru, but a child no less.

Twenty-two to twenty-eight chil­dren in all lived at Uptop in its hey­day, although the fos­ters had vary­ing lengths of stay

She used to say that she couldn’t remem­ber all the dates very well because she had so many chil­dren. Maybe, in ret­ro­spect, we should have realised that was weird but then we never thought it was any­thing out of the ordi­nary. She decided upon sets of twins and triplets and gave us ages and birth-dates to fit in with that idea. Birth­day changes were just some­thing you accepted. It was as if Anne knew so much more about every­thing than us and she just might be reveal­ing another piece of our life plan if she changed our birthdays.

We were the chil­dren of The Fam­ily, the chil­dren of Anne Hamilton-Byrne. We were dressed alike. Most of the girls’ hair was dyed blond, cut into fringes and worn long with iden­ti­cal hair­styles and identically-coloured rib­bons. All the boys had bowl haircuts.

…Why did she raise us in almost total social iso­la­tion, miles from any­where, with min­i­mal con­tact with other humans apart from the sect mem­bers who looked after us? Why did she sub­ject us to the bizarre and cruel reg­i­men in which we grew up? Was it to demon­strate that she had the power to cre­ate a gen­er­a­tion that would be reared with her beliefs and believ­ing in her? I sus­pect per­haps that there were more sin­is­ter motives than these alone. Some of us had mul­ti­ple birth cer­tifi­cates and pass­ports, and cit­i­zen­ship of more than one coun­try. Only she knows why thus was and why we were also all dressed alike, why most of us even had our hair dyed iden­ti­cally blond.

I can only con­jec­ture because I will never know for sure. How­ever I sus­pect that she went to such great lengths in order to enable her to move chil­dren around, in and out of the coun­try. Per­haps even to be sold over­seas. I’m sure there is a mar­ket some­where in the world for small blond chil­dren with no trace­able iden­ti­ties. If she did it, it was a per­fect scam. Many ex-sect mem­bers have said that they were aware that Anne was cre­at­ing chil­dren by a “breed­ing pro­gram” in the late 1960s. These were ‘invis­i­ble’ kids, because they had no papers and there is no proof that they ever existed. Yet we Hamilton-Byrne chil­dren had mul­ti­ple iden­ti­ties. These iden­ti­ties could per­haps have been loaned to other chil­dren and the sim­i­lar­ity of our appear­ance used to cover up their absence. One lit­tle blond kid looks very like another in a pass­port photo. I don’t sup­pose we will ever know the truth because only Anne Hamilton-Byrne knows the truth about the whole affair and the truth is some­thing she will never tell.

…I am train­ing to be a doc­tor but some­times I think my med­ical career will be sab­o­taged because there are still many in the sect who have a lot of influ­ence in pro­fes­sional and aca­d­e­mic cir­cles. It may sound melo­dra­matic, but I know that some who were Anne’s ene­mies have dis­ap­peared in strange circumstances. . . .

Unseen, Unheard, Unknown; by Sarah Moore (Hamilton-Byrne).

7. Among those on the receiv­ing end of the cult’s ser­vices was Lord Casey, for­mer Governor-General of Aus­tralia and the min­is­ter in charge of over­see­ing the Aus­tralian intel­li­gence ser­vice, with which Assange claims to be connected.

. . . It has been sug­gested that Anne would have had no power with­out a syringe. She claimed a lot of knowl­edge of med­ical things. She said she had been the matron of a hos­pi­tal but there is no evi­dence she ever did nurs­ing. I can’t empha­sise the impor­tance of nurs­ing in the sect enough. It was crit­i­cal to the way she viewed the Aun­ties and, it was what she planned for the girls’ future pro­fes­sion. She said nurs­ing was one of the ideal occu­pa­tions because it was a form of ‘self­less ser­vice’ that led to spir­i­tual advance­ment. We knew that on their weeks off from Uptop the Aun­ties were either train­ing to be nurses or prac­tised as nurses. Sev­eral of the Aun­ties nursed Lord Casey, a for­mer Governor-General of Aus­tralia. [Ital­ics are mine–D.E.] Rumour has it that he made a sig­nif­i­cant dona­tion to the sect. . . .

Idem.

8. More about Lord Casey, his pro­fes­sional his­tory and ide­o­log­i­cal outlook:

In pub­lic, Casey seemed to be a devoted Cold-War war­rior, fer­vently sup­port­ive of Britain and the U.S.A., and deeply hos­tile towards the Soviet Union and China; he was the min­is­ter respon­si­ble for the Aus­tralian Secret Intel­li­gence Service.”

“Casey, Richard Gavin Gard­ner”; Aus­tralian Dic­tio­nary of Biog­ra­phy.

9. More about the bru­tal con­di­tion­ing pro­gram exe­cuted by the cult on its accolytes. Notice, again, the use of mul­ti­ple iden­ti­ties, pass­ports and birth­dates for the chil­dren. What are they used for?

…Once ini­ti­ated, came the ‘go-through’ and that meant LSD trips. Every­one knew that it was an inevitable con­se­quence of ini­ti­a­tion, one of the rit­u­als that was inte­gral to the spir­i­tual devel­op­ment of the new ini­ti­ate. I’ve been present at many ‘go-throughs’ of peo­ple in the sect and ended up hav­ing at least a dozen myself.

Dur­ing a ‘go-through’ you were sup­posed to look at your­self and see the bad­ness inside, to regress to sig­nif­i­cant inci­dents in child­hood and in pre­vi­ous lives which affected your per­son­al­ity and retarded your spir­i­tual devel­op­ment. The drug, which Anne some­times called the ‘herb’ or the ‘dream med­i­cine’, was meant to make this eas­ier. It was also meant to make the spir­i­tual bond­ing eas­ier between mas­ter and dis­ci­ple. You were sup­posed to recog­nise her as the “one true mas­ter”, Christ incarnate.

She would come in to peo­ple when they were under and ask, “Do you know who I am?” The cor­rect answer was, “the Lord Incar­nate”. The incor­rect answer meant you weren’t ‘work­ing’ hard enough. “Work­ing” was ‘look­ing at your­self’ and real­is­ing what a “hor­ri­ble” per­son you were, repent­ing for your sins and puri­fy­ing yourself.

Before my first ‘go-through’ I was deprived of sleep for sev­eral nights and made to read ‘Yoga and the Bible’. Before­hand I’d watched one of my broth­ers get down on his knees and beg me not to hate him for being a closet homo­sex­ual. This con­fes­sion had been wrung out of him by Anne after sev­eral days of inten­sive ‘work­ing’ under the drug. He felt that he was a fail­ure and I did my best to tell him that he’d never be a fail­ure to me because I loved him. We were all scared of reveal­ing our weak­nesses but doubted that we would be able to hold any­thing back once under the influ­ence of the drugs.

Anne’s tech­nique, pretty typ­i­cal, of keep­ing us awake for sev­eral days before a ‘go-through’ meant that we were incred­i­bly vul­ner­a­ble any­way. You have to hand it to Anne, she knew her stuff; this was chronic sleep depri­va­tion and it added to the strain of the whole expe­ri­ence. Even today, I find if I am really tired I’m prone to flash­backs of LSD and it is harder to cope than it should be. Add to that the sen­sory depri­va­tion, for I was placed in a quiet and dark room and never knew whether it was day or night.

…It was also at this time in 1984, just before my ini­ti­a­tion, that Anne changed my name and gave me a new iden­tity. No longer was I to be called Andree who was born in June, July or maybe Sep­tem­ber. Now, for some rea­son that I never knew, I was called Sarah. I was now a triplet and had even changed nation­al­i­ties: I was now born in New Zealand on 16 Novem­ber 1970. I even had a pass­port to prove this.

It may seem bizarre now but at the time I took this in my stride. I didn’t even con­sider it strange that Anne had never told me this infor­ma­tion up to now, that pre­vi­ously I had believed I was some­one else. This sort of thing – sud­den changes in our real­ity– was par for the course in our lives and we never ques­tioned sur­prises. We were used to unpre­dictabil­ity as far as Anne was con­cerned. I hated the name Andree any­way and being a triplet was more inter­est­ing than being a sin­gle. I now know that there were sev­eral pass­ports in my name, a cou­ple of which were Aus­tralian. They all had dif­fer­ent birth-dates. I also had sev­eral birth cer­tifi­cates in dif­fer­ent names and in dif­fer­ent states.. . .

Unseen, Unheard, Unknown; by Sarah Moore (Hamilton-Byrne).

10. Sarah Moore sug­gests a pos­si­ble rea­son for the group’s appar­ent abil­ity to escape legal ret­ri­bu­tion for their activities.

Of inter­est and pos­si­ble sig­nif­i­cance, also, is the alle­ga­tion by Moore that Sandoz–part of the old I.G. Far­ben complex–was pro­vid­ing the group with free LSD. San­doz also bought the fam­ily busi­ness of Swiss Nazi financier Carl Lund­strom, thereby empow­er­ing him with the cap­i­tal with which he has real­ized his polit­i­cal endeavors.

Among those endeav­ors is the Pirate Bay down­load­ing web­site, with an asso­ci­ated polit­i­cal party (the Pirate Party) and PRQ server, which hosts Wik­iLeaks. As we will see in FTR #725, the Pirate Party is help­ing spon­sor Wik­iLeaks’ pres­ence in Sweden.

…The bulk of the sect was made up of pro­fes­sional peo­ple. With­out their sup­port and par­tic­i­pa­tion, Anne Hamilton-Byrne would never have become what she is today. It was their names, or most impor­tantly, the let­ters that went after their names, that gave her the cred­i­bil­ity and social power she needed. It gave her the means to keep those she already had and to get more and sim­i­lar peo­ple into the cult..

These pro­fes­sional peo­ple: doc­tors, lawyers, engi­neers, archi­tects, psy­chi­a­trists, nurses and social work­ers allowed her suc­cess­fully to pull the wool over everyone’s eyes for more than twenty years.

Had The Fam­ily been a group of strangely dressed peo­ple meet­ing once or twice a week for med­i­ta­tion, an address by the Mas­ter, play­ing of music and chant­ing, they would never have gone unno­ticed for so long. But pin-striped pro­fes­sion­als in their con­ser­v­a­tive suits with their impec­ca­ble social cre­den­tials could get away with main­tain­ing in their pri­vate life morals that were com­pletely at vari­ance with their pro­fes­sional ethics. They looked respectable, peo­ple thought, there­fore they must be respectable.

Who were these pro­fes­sion­als? They were doc­tors who wrote out the pre­scrip­tions that con­trolled us; lawyers, who wrote out the Deed Polls that were needed to forge pass­ports and birth cer­tifi­cates that cre­ated our false iden­ti­ties; social work­ers, who allowed Anne to by-pass nor­mal chan­nels to allow her to adopt, or sim­ply steal in some instances, six­teen chil­dren; doc­tors and nurses who gave her con­tacts with rich dying peo­ple who then left their estates to her. It was the same doc­tors who signed their death cer­tifi­cates; psy­chi­a­trists who had peo­ple com­mit­ted to Newhaven – the Fam­ily owned psy­chi­atric hos­pi­tal; and doc­tors and nurses who super­vised the abuse of LSD,( which for a while they actu­ally obtained free of charge from the Swiss drug com­pany, Sandoz). . . .

Idem.

11. Wik­iLeaks’ polit­i­cal ori­en­ta­tion is clar­i­fied in an arti­cle pub­lished in The New Yorker. Note that the group’s pri­mary tar­gets are “highly oppres­sive regimes in China, Rus­sia and Cen­tral Eurasia”–the Earth Island about which we’ve spo­ken so often. They’re also will­ing to work against the United States, obviously.

Wik­iLeaks polit­i­cal ori­en­ta­tion smacks of a Third Posi­tion, UNPO polit­i­cal orientation–one con­sis­tent with the Under­ground Reich.

Do not fail to note the poten­tial dam­age that could result from pub­lish­ing the social secu­rity num­bers of active-duty U.S. mil­i­tary per­son­nel. This could lead to, among other things, the com­pro­mis­ing of WMD tech­nol­ogy, nukes in particular.

. . . Assange, despite his claims to sci­en­tific jour­nal­ism, empha­sized to me that his mis­sion is to expose injus­tice, not to pro­vide an even-handed record of events. In an invi­ta­tion to poten­tial col­lab­o­ra­tors in 2006, he wrote, “Our pri­mary tar­gets are those highly oppres­sive regimes in China, Rus­sia and Cen­tral Eura­sia, but we also expect to be of assis­tance to those in the West who wish to reveal ille­gal or immoral behav­ior in their own gov­ern­ments and cor­po­ra­tions.” he has argued that a ‘social move­ment” to expose secrets could ” bring down many admin­is­tra­tions that rely on con­ceal­ing reality–including the US administration.”

Assange does not rec­og­nize the lim­its that tra­di­tional pub­lish­ers do. Recently, he posted mil­i­tary doc­u­ments that included the Social Secu­rity num­bers of sol­diers, and in the Bunker I asked him if Wik­iLeaks’ mis­sion would have been com­pro­mised if he had redacted these small bits. [Ital­ics are mine–D.E.] He said that some leaks risked harm­ing inno­cent people–“collateral dam­age, if you will”–but that he could not weigh the impor­tance of every detail in every doc­u­ment. Per­haps the Social Secu­rity num­bers would one day be impor­tant to researchers inves­ti­gat­ing wrong­do­ing, he said; by releas­ing the infor­ma­tion he would allow judg­ment to occur in the open.

A year and a half ago, Wik­iLeaks pub­lished the results of an Army test, con­ducted in 2004, of elec­tro­mag­netic devices designed to pre­vent IED’s from being trig­gered. The doc­u­ment revealed key aspects of how the devices func­tioned and also showed that they inter­fered with com­mu­ni­ca­tion sys­tems used by soldiers–information that an insur­gent could exploit. By the time Wik­iLeaks pub­lished the study, the Army had begun to deploy newer tech­nol­ogy, but some sol­diers were still using the devices. I asked Assange if he would refrain from releas­ing infor­ma­tion that he knew might get some one killed. He said that he had insti­tuted a “harm-minimization pol­icy,” whereby peo­ple named in cer­tain doc­u­ments were con­tacted before pub­li­ca­tion, to warn them, but that there were also instances where the mem­bers of Wik­iLeaks might get “blood on our hands.” . . . .

“No Secrets” by Raffi Khatch­adourian; The New Yorker; 6/7/2010.

12. More about the sen­si­tive nature of what Wik­iLeaks pub­lishes. It might cause loss of life and/or limb by U.S., coali­tion, or Afghan personnel.

. . . . In 2007, he pub­lished thou­sands of pages of secret mil­i­tary infor­ma­tion detail­ing a vast num­ber of Army pro­cure­ments in Iraq and Afghanistan. He and a vol­un­teer spent weeks build­ing a search­able data­base, study­ing the Army’s pur­chase codes and adding up the cost of the procurements–billions of dol­lars in all. The data­base cat­a­logued materiel that every unit had ordered: machine guns, Humvees, cash-counting machines, satel­lite phones. Assange hoped that jour­nal­ists would pore through it, but barely any did. “I am so angry,” he said. ‘This was such a fuck­ing fan­tas­tic leak: the Army’s force struc­ture of Afghanistan and Iraq, down to the last chair, and nothing.” . . .

Idem.

13. Another aspect of Wik­iLeaks that has attracted inter­est con­cerns their obfus­ca­tion of fund­ing, cre­at­ing ques­tions about where the money they col­lect is actu­ally going.

The secret-spilling web­site Wik­iLeaks appears to be a fru­gal spender, tap­ping less than 5 per­cent of the funds received through two of its three dona­tion meth­ods, accord­ing to the third-party foun­da­tion that man­ages those contributions.

Wik­iLeaks has received 640,000 euros (U.S. $800,000) through Pay­Pal or bank money trans­fers* since late Decem­ber, and spent only 30,000 euros (U.S. $38,000) from that fund­ing, says Hen­drik Fulda, vice pres­i­dent of the Berlin-based Wau Hol­land Foundation.

The money has gone to pay the travel expenses of Wik­iLeaks founder Julian Assange and spokesman Daniel Schmitt, as well as to cover the costs of com­puter hard­ware, such as servers, and leas­ing data lines, says Fulda. Wik­iLeaks does not cur­rently pay a salary to Assange or other vol­un­teers from this fund­ing, though there have been dis­cus­sions about doing so in the future, Fulda adds. The details have not yet been worked out. . . .

. . . . The site got another boost in dona­tions in April after it pub­lished the con­tro­ver­sial video show­ing a 2007 U.S. Army heli­copter attack in Bagh­dad. Wik­iLeaks claimed it raised more than $150,000 in less than a week after the release of the video. A U.S. Army intel­li­gence ana­lyst named Bradley Man­ning was since arrested and charged with being Wik­iLeaks’ source for the video. Assange and other Wik­iLeaks vol­un­teers have claimed that the orga­ni­za­tion com­mis­sioned lawyers to defend Man­ning, and the group has cam­paigned for more dona­tions from the pub­lic to cover the legal expenses.

Fulda said that no money han­dled by the foun­da­tion has gone to pay expenses for Manning’s defense. [Ital­ics are mine, D.E.] He didn’t know if Wik­iLeaks obtained money from other sources for the pur­pose. He said, how­ever, that his foun­da­tion would have no prob­lem in prin­ci­ple pay­ing such legal expenses. . . .

“Wik­iLeaks Cash Flows In, Drips Out” by Kim Zetter; wired.com; 7/13/2010.

14. Many of the organization’s crit­ics have noted the sharp con­trast between the opaque nature of its oper­a­tions and the drive for total trans­parency it demands on the part of the orga­ni­za­tions it scru­ti­nizes. In the next pro­gram about Wik­iLeaks, we will exam­ine the Wau Hol­land foun­da­tion at greater length.

The con­tro­ver­sial web­site Wik­iLeaks, which argues the cause of open­ness in leak­ing clas­si­fied or con­fi­den­tial doc­u­ments, has set up an elab­o­rate global finan­cial net­work to pro­tect a big secret of its own—its funding.

Some gov­ern­ments and cor­po­ra­tions angered by the site’s pub­li­ca­tions have already sued Wik­iLeaks or blocked access to it, and the group fears that its money and infra­struc­ture could be tar­geted fur­ther, founder Julian Assange said in an inter­view in Lon­don shortly after pub­lish­ing 76,000 clas­si­fied U.S. doc­u­ments about the war in Afghanistan in July. The move sparked inter­na­tional con­tro­versy and put Wik­iLeaks in the spotlight.

In response, the site has estab­lished a com­plex sys­tem for col­lect­ing and dis­burs­ing its dona­tions to obscure their ori­gin and use, Mr. Assange said. Anchor­ing the sys­tem is a foun­da­tion in Ger­many estab­lished in mem­ory of a com­puter hacker who died in 2001.

WikiLeaks’s finan­cial sta­bil­ity has waxed and waned dur­ing its short his­tory. The site shut down briefly late last year, cit­ing a lack of funds, but Mr. Assange said the group has raised about $1 mil­lion since the start of 2010.

WikiLeaks’s lack of finan­cial trans­parency stands in con­trast to the total trans­parency it seeks from gov­ern­ments and corporations. . . .

“How Wik­iLeaks Keeps Its Fund­ing Secret” by Jeanne Whalen and David Craw­ford; The Wall Street Jour­nal; 8/23/2010.

15. Another fas­ci­nat­ing detail con­cern­ing the tan­gled web that is Wik­iLeaks con­cerns the PRQ server, based in Swe­den. In addi­tion to host­ing Wik­iLeaks, it is the base for Pirate Bay, a con­trol­ling inter­est in which is owned by Carl Lund­strom, a promi­nent Swedish Nazi and financier of that country’s lead­ing fas­cist polit­i­cal party. It is unclear if this would give Swedish Nazi ele­ments to infor­ma­tion from doc­u­ments accessed by Wik­iLeaks, but that seems a rea­son­able possibility.

Note that Lund­strom sold his fam­ily busi­ness to the San­doz com­pany. Part of the old I.G. Far­ben com­plex, it is the firm that devel­oped LSD and, accord­ing to Sarah Moore, pro­vided it gratis to the Hamilton-Byrne cult. Note that the ele­ments of the old I.G. Far­ben firm have coa­lesced into an essen­tial ele­ment of the Bor­mann cap­i­tal net­work, the eco­nomic com­po­nent of the Under­ground Reich.

In FTR #725, we will exam­ine more ele­ments of link­age between the Pirate Bay milieu and WikiLeaks.

A Swedish Inter­net com­pany linked to file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay says it’s help­ing online whistle-blower Wik­iLeaks release clas­si­fied doc­u­ments from servers located in a Stock­holm sub­urb. Mikael Viborg, the owner of the Web host­ing com­pany PRQ, on Fri­day showed The Asso­ci­ated Press the site — the base­ment of a drab office build­ing — in Solna on the con­di­tion that the exact loca­tion was not revealed.

“This is the office. The server room is fur­ther inside,” the 28-year-old Viborg said, with the door to the office cracked open. Desks with com­put­ers, doc­u­ments, and empty pas­try boxes and soda cans could be seen inside before he closed the door.

Wik­iLeaks posted more than 76,900 clas­si­fied mil­i­tary and other doc­u­ments, mostly raw intel­li­gence reports from Afghanistan, on its web­site July 25. The White House angrily denounced the leaks, say­ing they put the lives of Afghan infor­mants and U.S. troops at risk.

The secre­tive web­site gives few details about its setup, but says its “servers are dis­trib­uted over mul­ti­ple inter­na­tional juris­dic­tions and do not keep logs. Hence these logs can­not be seized.” . . .

[nathan28]

Emory is a vocal supporter of Israel, and sees the United States' corporate infrastructure, far-right militia groups, Germany, the PLO, occult organizations, etc., as agents of an "underground Reich" bent on, among other things, eliminating the Jews, including the present state of Israel. Just want to let you all know that, in case you weren't already painting a confusing-enough picture.

[seemslikeadream]

Emory is a vocal supporter of Israel, and sees the United States' corporate infrastructure, far-right militia groups, Germany, the PLO, occult organizations, etc., as agents of an "underground Reich" bent on, among other things, eliminating the Jews, including the present state of Israel. Just want to let you all know that, in case you weren't already painting a confusing-enough picture.

I have not followed him closely at all for quite awhile and hadn't been looking for his Israel supporting only noticed his anti-fascist stuff


I am going to listen to these two shows 724 and 725 anyway

Oct 18 and 25 2010

feed://wfmu.org/archivefeed/mp3/DX.xml

[JackRiddler]

Don't bring fuckin' DU into this Jack!

It's a comment someone posted on the Internet that I found worth sharing.

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[nathan28]

I've listened to all of Emory's "Archive" shows and dozens if not +100 of the of the FTR series.

I am going to listen to these two shows 724 and 725 anyway

Well, so am I, and good luck, you may want to find the world's tallest cup of coffee and some brownish-looking powdered crystals to help with that endeavor.

http://mp3archives.wfmu.org/archive/kdb/mp3jump2010.mp3/0:14:29/0/DX/dx101018.mp3
http://mp3archives.wfmu.org/archive/kdb/mp3jump2010.mp3/0:9:54/0/DX/dx101025.mp3



I'll report back if I survive.

[JackRiddler]

This morning, still only 243 documents are accessible via cablegate and we can all see what spin is being put on them by the papers. Not good.

But here's a mood-lightener:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/201 ... ve-updates

9.31am: Don't confuse WikiLeaks and Wikipedia. Larry Sanger, the co-founder of Wikipedia, strongly condemned the whistle-blowing site for releasing the cables.

In a tweet yesterday he wrote: "@wikileaks Speaking as Wikipedia's co-founder, I consider you enemies of the U.S.--not just the government, but the people."

In case you didn't know "the world's encyclopedia" waves the US flag.

.

Here's the current Wikipedia page on Wikileaks, which is certain to change beyond recognition soon, so let's preserve it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is related to the following current event: United States diplomatic cables leak. Information may change rapidly as the event progresses.

WikiLeaks
URL www.wikileaks.org
Slogan We open governments.
Commercial? No
Type of site Document archive
Available language(s) Multilingual
Owner The Sunshine Press[1]
Created by Julian Assange
Launched December 2006
Alexa rank 4,629 (November 2010)[2]
Current status Active

Not to be confused with wiki websites such as Wikipedia.


WikiLeaks is an international non-profit media organization that publishes submissions of otherwise unavailable documents from anonymous sources and leaks. Its website, launched in 2006, is run by The Sunshine Press.[1] Within a year of its launch, the site claimed a database that had grown to more than 1.2 million documents.[3]

The organization has described itself as having been founded by Chinese dissidents, as well as journalists, mathematicians, and start-up company technologists from the U.S., Taiwan, Europe, Australia, and South Africa.[1] Newspaper articles and The New Yorker magazine (7 June 2010) describe Julian Assange, an Australian journalist and Internet activist, as its director.[4]

WikiLeaks has won a number of awards, including the 2008 Economist magazine New Media Award.[5] In June 2009, WikiLeaks and Julian Assange won Amnesty International's UK Media Award (in the category "New Media") for the 2008 publication of "Kenya: The Cry of Blood – Extra Judicial Killings and Disappearances",[6] a report by the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights about police killings in Kenya.[7] In May 2010, the New York Daily News listed WikiLeaks first in a ranking of "websites that could totally change the news".[8]

In April 2010, WikiLeaks posted video from a 2007 incident in which Iraqi civilians were killed by U.S. forces, on a website called Collateral Murder. In July of the same year, WikiLeaks released Afghan War Diary, a compilation of more than 76,900 documents about the War in Afghanistan not previously available for public review.[9] In October, the group released a package of almost 400,000 documents called the Iraq War Logs in coordination with major commercial media organisations.

WikiLeaks was launched as a user-editable site, but has progressively moved towards a more traditional publication model, and no longer accepts either user comments or edits, which means, according to Jimbo Wales, that it is not a wiki.

[10]Contents [hide]
1 History
2 Administration
2.1 Site management issues
3 Hosting
4 Policies
4.1 Verification of submissions
5 Investigations, censorship and alleged harassment
5.1 Police raid on German WikiLeaks domain holder's home
5.2 Chinese (PRC) censorship
5.3 Potential future Australian censorship
5.4 Thai censorship
5.5 Alleged harassment and surveillance
5.6 UK censorship
6 Other activities
6.1 Icelandic Modern Media Initiative
6.2 Possible move to Switzerland
7 Notable leaks
7.1 Pre-2009
7.1.1 Apparent Somali assassination order
7.1.2 Daniel arap Moi family corruption
7.1.3 Bank Julius Baer lawsuit
7.1.4 Guantánamo Bay procedures
7.1.5 Scientology
7.1.6 Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account contents
7.1.7 BNP membership list
7.2 2009
7.2.1 Climatic Research Unit emails
7.2.2 Internet censorship lists
7.2.3 Bilderberg Group meeting reports
7.2.4 2008 Peru oil scandal
7.2.5 Nuclear accident in Iran
7.2.6 Toxic dumping in Africa: The Minton report
7.2.7 Kaupthing Bank
7.2.8 Joint Services Protocol 440
7.2.9 9/11 pager messages
7.3 2010
7.3.1 U.S. Intelligence report on WikiLeaks
7.3.2 Baghdad airstrike video
7.3.2.1 Arrest of Bradley Manning
7.3.3 Afghan War Diary
7.3.4 Love Parade documents
7.3.5 Iraq War Logs
7.4 Announcements on upcoming leaks
7.4.1 Diplomatic cables release
8 See also
9 References
10 External links
10.1 Interviews

History

WikiLeaks first appeared in public on the Internet in January 2007.[11] The site states that it was "founded by Chinese dissidents, journalists, mathematicians and start-up company technologists, from the US, Taiwan, Europe, Australia and South Africa".[1] The creators of WikiLeaks have not been formally identified.[12] It has been represented in public since January 2007 by Julian Assange and others. Assange describes himself as a member of WikiLeaks' advisory board.[13] News reports in The Australian have called Assange the "founder of Wikileaks".[14] According to Wired magazine, a volunteer said that Assange described himself in a private conversation as "the heart and soul of this organization, its founder, philosopher, spokesperson, original coder, organizer, financier, and all the rest".[15] As of June 2009, the site had over 1,200 registered volunteers[1] and listed an advisory board comprising Assange, Phillip Adams, Wang Dan, C. J. Hinke, Ben Laurie, Tashi Namgyal Khamsitsang, Xiao Qiang, Chico Whitaker and Wang Youcai.[16] Despite appearing on the list, when contacted by Mother Jones magazine in 2010, Khamsitsang said that while he received an e-mail from WikiLeaks, he had never agreed to be an advisor.[17]

WikiLeaks states that its "primary interest is in exposing oppressive regimes in Asia, the former Soviet bloc, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, but we also expect to be of assistance to people of all regions who wish to reveal unethical behavior in their governments and corporations."[1][18]

In January 2007, the website stated that it had over 1.2 million leaked documents that it was preparing to publish.[19] An article in The New Yorker said

One of the WikiLeaks activists owned a server that was being used as a node for the Tor network. Millions of secret transmissions passed through it. The activist noticed that hackers from China were using the network to gather foreign governments’ information, and began to record this traffic. Only a small fraction has ever been posted on WikiLeaks, but the initial tranche served as the site’s foundation, and Assange was able to say, "[w]e have received over one million documents from thirteen countries."[20][21]

Assange responded to the suggestion that eavesdropping on Chinese hackers played a crucial part in the early days of WikiLeaks by saying "the imputation is incorrect. The facts concern a 2006 investigation into Chinese espionage one of our contacts were involved in. Somewhere between none and handful of those documents were ever released on WikiLeaks. Non-government targets of the Chinese espionage, such as Tibetan associations were informed (by us)".[22] The group has subsequently released a number of other significant documents which have become front-page news items, ranging from documentation of equipment expenditures and holdings in the Afghanistan war to corruption in Kenya.[23]

The organization's stated goal is to ensure that whistle-blowers and journalists are not jailed for emailing sensitive or classified documents, as happened to Chinese journalist Shi Tao, who was sentenced to 10 years in 2005 after publicising an email from Chinese officials about the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.[24]

The project has drawn comparisons to Daniel Ellsberg's leaking of the Pentagon Papers in 1971.[25] In the United States, the leaking of some documents may be legally protected. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the Constitution guarantees anonymity, at least in the area of political discourse.[26] Author and journalist Whitley Strieber has spoken about the benefits of the WikiLeaks project, noting that "Leaking a government document can mean jail, but jail sentences for this can be fairly short. However, there are many places where it means long incarceration or even death, such as China and parts of Africa and the Middle East."[27]

On 24 December 2009, WikiLeaks announced that it was experiencing a shortage of funds[28] and suspended all access to its website except for a form to submit new material.[29] Material that was previously published was no longer available, although some could still be accessed on unofficial mirrors.[30][31] WikiLeaks stated on its website that it would resume full operation once the operational costs were covered.[32][33] WikiLeaks saw this as a kind of strike "to ensure that everyone who is involved stops normal work and actually spends time raising revenue".[34] While it was initially hoped that funds could be secured by 6 January 2010,[35] it was only on 3 February 2010 that WikiLeaks announced that its minimum fundraising goal had been achieved.[36]

On 22 January 2010, PayPal suspended WikiLeaks' donation account and froze its assets. WikiLeaks said that this had happened before, and was done for "no obvious reason".[37] The account was restored on 25 January 2010.[38]

On 18 May 2010, WikiLeaks announced that its website and archive were back up.[39]

As of June 2010, WikiLeaks was a finalist for a grant of more than half a million dollars from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation,[40] but did not make the cut.[41] WikiLeaks commented, "Wikileaks was highest rated project in the Knight challenge, strongly recommended to the board but gets no funding. Go figure”. WikiLeaks said that the Knight foundation announced the award to "'12 Grantees who will impact future of news' – but not WikiLeaks" and questioned whether Knight foundation was "really looking for impact".[41] A spokesman of the Knight Foundation disputed parts of WikiLeaks' statement, saying "WikiLeaks was not recommended by Knight staff to the board."[42] However, he declined to say whether WikiLeaks was the project rated highest by the Knight advisory panel, which consists of non-staffers, among them journalist Jennifer 8. Lee, who has done PR work for WikiLeaks with the press and on social networking sites.[42]

On 17 July Jacob Appelbaum spoke on behalf of WikiLeaks at the 2010 Hackers on Planet Earth conference in New York City, replacing Assange due to the presence of federal agents at the conference.[43][44] He announced that the WikiLeaks submission system was again up and running, after it had been temporarily suspended.[43][45] Assange was a surprise speaker at a TED conference on 19 July 2010 in Oxford, and confirmed that WikiLeaks was now accepting submissions again.[46][47]

Upon returning to the U.S. from Holland, on 29 July, Appelbaum was detained for three hours at the airport by U.S. agents, according to anonymous sources.[48] The sources told Cnet that Appelbaum's bag was searched, receipts from his bag were photocopied, his laptop was inspected, although in what manner was unclear.[48] Appelbaum reportedly refused to answer questions without a lawyer present, and was not allowed to make a phone call. His three mobile phones were reportedly taken and not returned.[48] On 31 July, he spoke at a Defcon conference and mentioned his phone being "seized". After speaking, he was approached by two FBI agents and questioned.[48]

Administration

According to a January 2010 interview, the WikiLeaks team then consisted of five people working full-time and about 800 people who worked occasionally, none of whom were compensated.[34] WikiLeaks has no official headquarters. The expenses per year are about €200,000, mainly for servers and bureaucracy, but would reach €600,000 if work currently done by volunteers were paid for.[34] WikiLeaks does not pay for lawyers, as hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal support have been donated by media organisations such as the Associated Press, The Los Angeles Times, and the National Newspaper Publishers Association.[34] Its only revenue stream is donations, but WikiLeaks is planning to add an auction model to sell early access to documents.[34] According to the Wau Holland Foundation, WikiLeaks receives no money for personnel costs, only for hardware, travelling and bandwidth.[49] An article in TechEYE.net wrote

As a charity accountable under German law, donations for Wikileaks can be made to the foundation. Funds are held in escrow and are given to Wikileaks after the whistleblower website files an application containing a statement with proof of payment. The foundation does not pay any sort of salary nor give any renumeration [sic] to Wikileaks' personnel, corroborating the statement of the site's German representative Daniel Schmitt (real name Daniel Domscheit-Berg)[50] on national television that all personnel works [sic] voluntarily, even its speakers.[49]
Site management issues

There has been public disagreement between Julian Assange and Daniel Domscheit-Berg, who was suspended by Assange and on 28 September announced he would leave the company.[51][52][53] In October 2010, it was reported that Moneybookers, which collected donations for WikiLeaks, had ended its relationship with the site. Moneybookers stated that its decision had been made "to comply with money laundering or other investigations conducted by government authorities, agencies or commissions."[54]
Hosting

WikiLeaks describes itself as “an uncensorable system for untraceable mass document leaking”. WikiLeaks is hosted by PRQ, a Sweden-based company providing “highly secure, no-questions-asked hosting services.” PRQ is said to have “almost no information about its clientele and maintains few if any of its own logs.” The servers are spread around the world with the central server located in Sweden.[55] Julian Assange has said that the servers are located in Sweden (and the other countries) "specifically because those nations offer legal protection to the disclosures made on the site". He talks about the Swedish constitution, which gives the information providers total legal protection.[55] It is forbidden according to Swedish law for any administrative authority to make inquiries about the sources of any type of newspaper.[56] These laws, and the hosting by PRQ, make it difficult to take WikiLeaks offline. Furthermore, "Wikileaks maintains its own servers at undisclosed locations, keeps no logs and uses military-grade encryption to protect sources and other confidential information." Such arrangements have been called "bulletproof hosting."[57][58]

On 17 August 2010, it was announced that the Swedish Pirate Party will be hosting and managing many of WikiLeaks' new servers. The party donates servers and bandwidth to WikiLeaks without charge. Technicians of the party will make sure that the servers are maintained and working.[59][60] Some servers are hosted in underground cold war era nuclear shelters. The physical security layer is 30m White Mountains solid bedrock.[61]

WikiLeaks is based on several software packages, including MediaWiki, Freenet, Tor, and PGP.[62] WikiLeaks strongly encouraged postings via Tor due to the strong privacy needs of its users.[63]

Policies

The "about" page originally read: "To the user, Wikileaks will look very much like Wikipedia. Anybody can post to it, anybody can edit it. No technical knowledge is required. Leakers can post documents anonymously and untraceably. Users can publicly discuss documents and analyze their credibility and veracity. Users can discuss interpretations and context and collaboratively formulate collective publications. Users can read and write explanatory articles on leaks along with background material and context. The political relevance of documents and their verisimilitude will be revealed by a cast of thousands."[64]

However, WikiLeaks established an editorial policy that accepted only documents that were "of political, diplomatic, historical or ethical interest" (and excluded "material that is already publicly available").[65] This coincided with early criticism that having no editorial policy would drive out good material with spam and promote "automated or indiscriminate publication of confidential records."[66] It is no longer possible for anybody to post to it or edit it, as the original FAQ promised. Instead, submissions are regulated by an internal review process and some are published, while documents not fitting the editorial criteria are rejected by anonymous WikiLeaks reviewers. By 2008, the revised FAQ stated that "Anybody can post comments to it. [...] Users can publicly discuss documents and analyze their credibility and veracity."[67] After the 2010 relaunch, posting new comments to leaks was no longer possible.[68]

Verification of submissions Wikinews has news on these topics:
Huge interest takes Wikileaks offline
Church of Scientology's 'Operating Thetan' documents leaked online
Wikileaks spokesperson discusses recent court case with Wikinews
Representative for ACLU tells Wikinews their opinion on lifting of Wikileaks court injunction
Wikileaks.org restored as injunction is lifted
Wikileaks claims ‘abuse of process’ in court case that resulted in wikileaks.org being take offline
Rights groups: Forcing Wikileaks.org offline raises 'serious First Amendment concerns'
'Wikileaks.org' taken offline in many areas after fire, court injunction


WikiLeaks states that it has never released a misattributed document. Documents are assessed before release. In response to concerns about the possibility of misleading or fraudulent leaks, WikiLeaks has stated that misleading leaks "are already well-placed in the mainstream media. [Wikileaks] is of no additional assistance."[69] The FAQ states that: "The simplest and most effective countermeasure is a worldwide community of informed users and editors who can scrutinize and discuss leaked documents."[70]

According to statements by Assange in 2010, submitted documents are vetted by a group of five reviewers, with expertise in different fields such as language or programming, who also investigate the background of the leaker if his or her identity is known.[71] In that group, Assange has the final decision about the assessment of a document.[71]

Investigations, censorship and alleged harassment
Police raid on German WikiLeaks domain holder's home

The home of Theodor Reppe, registrant of the German WikiLeaks domain name, wikileaks.de, was raided on 24 March 2009 after WikiLeaks released the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) censorship blacklist.[72] The site was not affected.[73][74][75]
Chinese (PRC) censorship

The Chinese (PRC) government uses its Golden Shield Project to attempt to censor every web site with "wikileaks" in the URL, including the primary .org site and the regional variations .cn and .uk. However, the site is still accessible from behind the Chinese firewall through one of the many alternative names used by the project, such as "secure.sunshinepress.org". The alternate sites change frequently, and WikiLeaks encourages users to search "wikileaks cover names" outside mainland China for the latest alternative names. Mainland search engines, including Baidu and Yahoo!, also censor references to "wikileaks".[76]
Potential future Australian censorship Wikinews has related news: Portions of Wikileaks, Wikipedia blocked in Australia


On 16 March 2009, the Australian Communications and Media Authority added WikiLeaks to their proposed blacklist of sites that will be blocked for all Australians if the mandatory internet filtering censorship scheme is implemented as planned.[77][78]
Thai censorship

The Centre for the Resolution of the Emergency Situation (CRES) is currently censoring the website WikiLeaks in Thailand[79] and more than 40,000 other webpages[80] due to the emergency decree in Thailand imposed because of political instabilities (Emergency decree declared beginning of April 2010[81]). When trying to access the WikiLeaks website, internet users are redirected to this webpage.
Alleged harassment and surveillance

According to The Times, WikiLeaks and its members have complained about continuing harassment and surveillance by law enforcement and intelligence organizations, including extended detention, seizure of computers, veiled threats, “covert following and hidden photography.”[82]

After the release of the 2007 airstrikes video and as they prepared to release film of the Granai airstrike, Julian Assange has said that his group of volunteers came under intense surveillance. In an interview and Twitter posts he said that a restaurant in Reykjavik where his group of volunteers met came under surveillance in March; there was "covert following and hidden photography" by police and foreign intelligence services; that an apparent British intelligence agent made thinly veiled threats in a Luxembourg car park; and that one of the volunteers was detained by police for 21 hours. Another volunteer posted that computers were seized, saying "If anything happens to us, you know why ... and you know who is responsible."[83] According to the Columbia Journalism Review, "the Icelandic press took a look at Assange’s charges of being surveilled in Iceland [...] and, at best, have found nothing to substantiate them."[84]

WikiLeaks has claimed that Facebook deleted their fan page, which had 30,000 fans.[85][86][87][88]
UK censorship

On 25 November 2010, the UK Defence, Press and Broadcasting Advisory Committee sent DA-Notices to UK newspapers regarding an expected major publication by WikiLeaks of a "huge cache" of US diplomatic cables.[89][90] According to Index on Censorship, "DA-notices point to a set of guidelines, agreed by the government departments and the media", and compliance is voluntary.[89] According to the information technology journal Thinq, DA-Notices "are generally adhered to."[90]
Other activities
Icelandic Modern Media Initiative

In August 2009, Kaupthing, a large bank, succeeded in obtaining a court order gagging Iceland’s national broadcaster, RUV, from broadcasting a risk analysis report showing the bank's substantial exposure to debt default risk. This information had been leaked by a whistleblower to WikiLeaks and remained available on the WikiLeaks site; faced with an injunction minutes before broadcast the channel ran with a screen grab of the WikiLeaks site instead of the scheduled piece on the bank. Citizens of Iceland felt outraged that RUV was prevented from broadcasting news of relevance.[91] Therefore, WikiLeaks has been credited with inspiring the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative, a bill meant to reclaim Iceland's 2007 Reporters Sans Frontieres ranking as first in the world for free speech. It aims to enact a range of protections for sources, journalists, and publishers.[92][93] Birgitta Jónsdóttir, a former volunteer for WikiLeaks and member the Icelandic parliament, is the chief sponsor of the proposal.
Possible move to Switzerland

On 4 November 2010, Julian Assange told Swiss public television TSR that he is seriously considering seeking political asylum in neutral Switzerland and setting up a Wikileaks foundation in the country to move the operation there.[94][95] According to Assange, Switzerland and Iceland are the only countries where WikiLeaks would feel safe to operate.[96][97]
Notable leaks
Pre-2009
Apparent Somali assassination order

WikiLeaks posted its first document in December 2006, a decision to assassinate government officials signed by Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys.[20] The New Yorker has reported that [Julian] Assange and the others were uncertain of its authenticity, but they thought that readers, using Wikipedia-like features of the site, would help analyze it. They published the decision with a lengthy commentary, which asked, “Is it a bold manifesto by a flamboyant Islamic militant with links to Bin Laden? Or is it a clever smear by US intelligence, designed to discredit the Union, fracture Somali alliances and manipulate China?” ... The document’s authenticity was never determined, and news about WikiLeaks quickly superseded the leak itself.[20]

Daniel arap Moi family corruption

On 31 August 2007, The Guardian (Britain) featured on its front page a story about corruption by the family of the former Kenyan leader Daniel arap Moi. The newspaper stated that the source of the information was WikiLeaks.[98]
Bank Julius Baer lawsuit
Main article: Bank Julius Baer vs. Wikileaks lawsuit

In February 2008, the wikileaks.org domain name was taken offline after the Swiss Bank Julius Baer sued WikiLeaks and the wikileaks.org domain registrar, Dynadot, in a court in California, United States, and obtained a permanent injunction ordering the shutdown.[99][100] WikiLeaks had hosted allegations of illegal activities at the bank's Cayman Island branch.[99] WikiLeaks' U.S. Registrar, Dynadot, complied with the order by removing its DNS entries. However, the website remained accessible via its numeric IP address, and online activists immediately mirrored WikiLeaks at dozens of alternative websites worldwide.[101]

The American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a motion protesting the censorship of WikiLeaks. The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press assembled a coalition of media and press that filed an amicus curiae brief on WikiLeaks' behalf. The coalition included major U.S. newspaper publishers and press organisations, such as the American Society of Newspaper Editors, The Associated Press, the Citizen Media Law Project, The E.W. Scripps Company, the Gannett Company, The Hearst Corporation, the Los Angeles Times, the National Newspaper Publishers Association, the Newspaper Association of America, The Radio-Television News Directors Association, and The Society of Professional Journalists. The coalition requested to be heard as a friend of the court to call attention to relevant points of law that it believed the court had overlooked (on the grounds that WikiLeaks had not appeared in court to defend itself, and that no First Amendment issues had yet been raised before the court). Amongst other things, the coalition argued that:[101]

"Wikileaks provides a forum for dissidents and whistleblowers across the globe to post documents, but the Dynadot injunction imposes a prior restraint that drastically curtails access to Wikileaks from the Internet based on a limited number of postings challenged by Plaintiffs. The Dynadot injunction therefore violates the bedrock principle that an injunction cannot enjoin all communication by a publisher or other speaker."[101]

The same judge, Judge Jeffrey White, who issued the injunction vacated it on 29 February 2008, citing First Amendment concerns and questions about legal jurisdiction.[102] WikiLeaks was thus able to bring its site online again. The bank dropped the case on 5 March 2008.[103] The judge also denied the bank's request for an order prohibiting the website's publication.[101]

The Executive Director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Lucy Dalglish, commented:

"It's not very often a federal judge does a 180 degree turn in a case and dissolves an order. But we're very pleased the judge recognized the constitutional implications in this prior restraint."[101]
Guantánamo Bay procedures

A copy of Standard Operating Procedures for Camp Delta–the protocol of the U.S. Army at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp–dated March 2003 was released on the WikiLeaks website on 7 November 2007.[104] The document, named "gitmo-sop.pdf", is also mirrored at The Guardian.[105] Its release revealed some of the restrictions placed over detainees at the camp, including the designation of some prisoners as off-limits to the International Committee of the Red Cross, something that the U.S. military had in the past repeatedly denied.[106]

On 3 December 2007, WikiLeaks released a copy of the 2004 edition of the manual,[107] together with a detailed analysis of the changes.[108]
Scientology

On 7 April 2008, WikiLeaks reported receiving a letter (dated 27 March) from the Religious Technology Centre claiming ownership of several recently leaked documents pertaining to OT Levels within the Church of Scientology. These same documents were at the center of a 1994 scandal. The email stated:“ The Advanced Technology materials are unpublished, copyrighted works. Please be advised that your customer's action in this regard violates United States copyright law. Accordingly, we ask for your help in removing these works immediately from your service.

– Moxon and Kobrin[109] ”


The letter continued on to request the release of the logs of the uploader, which would remove their anonymity. WikiLeaks responded with a statement released on Wikinews stating: "in response to the attempted suppression, Wikileaks will release several thousand additional pages of Scientology material next week",[110] and did so.
Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account contents
Main article: Sarah Palin email hack

In September 2008, during the 2008 United States presidential election campaigns, the contents of a Yahoo account belonging to Sarah Palin (the running mate of Republican presidential nominee John McCain) were posted on WikiLeaks after being hacked into by members of Anonymous.[111] It has been alleged by Wired that contents of the mailbox indicate that she used the private Yahoo account to send work-related messages, in violation of public record laws.[112] The hacking of the account was widely reported in mainstream news outlets.[113][114][115] Although WikiLeaks was able to conceal the hacker's identity, the source of the Palin emails was eventually publicly identified as David Kernell, a 20-year-old economics student at the University of Tennessee and the son of Democratic Tennessee State Representative Mike Kernell from Memphis,[116] whose email address (as listed on various social networking sites) was linked to the hacker's identity on Anonymous.[117] Kernell attempted to conceal his identity by using the anonymous proxy service ctunnel.com, but, because of the illegal nature of the access, ctunnel website administrator Gabriel Ramuglia assisted the FBI in tracking down the source of the hack.[118]
BNP membership list

After briefly appearing on a blog, the membership list of the far-right British National Party was posted to WikiLeaks on 18 November 2008. The name, address, age and occupation of many of the 13,500 members were given, including several police officers, two solicitors, four ministers of religion, at least one doctor, and a number of primary and secondary school teachers. In Britain, police officers are banned from joining or promoting the BNP, and at least one officer was dismissed for being a member.[119] The BNP was known for going to considerable lengths to conceal the identities of members. On 19 November, BNP leader Nick Griffin stated that he knew the identity of the person who initially leaked the list on 17 November, describing him as a "hardliner" senior employee who left the party in 2007.[120][121][122] On 20 October 2009, a list of BNP members from April 2009 was leaked. This list contained 11,811 members.[123]
2009

In January 2009, over 600 internal United Nations reports (60 of them marked "strictly confidential") were leaked.[124]

On 7 February 2009, WikiLeaks released 6,780 Congressional Research Service reports.[125]

In March 2009, WikiLeaks published a list of contributors to the Norm Coleman senatorial campaign[126] and a set of documents belonging to Barclays Bank that had been ordered removed from the website of The Guardian.[127]
Climatic Research Unit emails
Main article: Climatic Research Unit email controversy

In November 2009, controversial documents, including e-mail correspondence between climate scientists, were illegally released[128] from the University of East Anglia's (UEA) Climatic Research Unit (CRU). According to the university, the emails and documents were obtained through a server hacking; one prominent host of the full 120MB archive was WikiLeaks.[129][130]
Internet censorship lists

WikiLeaks has published the lists of forbidden or illegal web addresses for several countries.

On 19 March 2009, WikiLeaks published what was alleged to be the Australian Communications and Media Authority's blacklist of sites to be banned under Australia's proposed laws on Internet censorship.[131] Reactions to the publication of the list by the Australian media and politicians were varied. Particular note was made by journalistic outlets of the type of websites on the list; while the Internet censorship scheme submitted by the Australian Labor Party in 2008 was proposed with the stated intention of preventing access to child pornography and sites related to terrorism,[132] the list leaked on WikiLeaks contains a number of sites unrelated to sex crimes involving minors.[133][134] When questioned about the leak, Stephen Conroy, the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy in Australia's Rudd Labor Government, responded by claiming that the list was not the actual list, yet threatening to prosecute anyone involved in distributing it.[135] On 20 March 2009, WikiLeaks published an updated list, dated 18 March 2009; it more closely matches the claimed size of the ACMA blacklist, and contains two pages which have been independently confirmed to be blacklisted by ACMA.

WikiLeaks also contains details of Internet censorship in Thailand, including lists of censored sites dating back to May 2006.[136]
Bilderberg Group meeting reports

Since May 2009, WikiLeaks has made available reports of several meetings of the Bilderberg Group.[137] It includes the group's history[138] and meeting reports from the years 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1962, 1963 and 1980.
2008 Peru oil scandal

On 28 January 2009, WikiLeaks released 86 telephone intercept recordings of Peruvian politicians and businessmen involved in the "Petrogate" oil scandal. The release of the tapes led the front pages of five Peruvian newspapers.[139]
Nuclear accident in Iran

On 16 July 2009, Iranian news agencies reported that the head of Iran's atomic energy organization Gholam Reza Aghazadeh had abruptly resigned for unknown reasons after twelve years in office.[140] Shortly afterwards WikiLeaks released a report disclosing a "serious nuclear accident" at the Iranian Natanz nuclear facility in 2009.[141] The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) released statistics according to which the number of enriched centrifuges operational in Iran mysteriously declined from about 4,700 to about 3,900 beginning around the time the nuclear incident WikiLeaks mentioned would have occurred.[142][143]

According to media reports the accident may have been the direct result of a cyberattack at Iran's nuclear program, carried out with the Stuxnet computer worm.[144][145]
Toxic dumping in Africa: The Minton report

In September 2006, commodities giant Trafigura commissioned an internal report about a toxic dumping incident in the Ivory Coast,[146] which (according to the United Nations) affected 108,000 people. The document, called the Minton Report, names various harmful chemicals "likely to be present" in the waste — sodium hydroxide, cobalt phthalocyanine sulfonate, coker naphtha, thiols, sodium alkanethiolate, sodium hydrosulfide, sodium sulfide, dialkyl disulfides, hydrogen sulfide — and notes that some of them "may cause harm at some distance". The report states that potential health effects include "burns to the skin, eyes and lungs, vomiting, diarrhea, loss of consciousness and death", and suggests that the high number of reported casualties is "consistent with there having been a significant release of hydrogen sulphide gas".

On 11 September 2009, Trafigura's lawyers, Carter-Ruck, obtained a secret "super-injunction"[147] against The Guardian, banning that newspaper from publishing the contents of the document. Trafigura also threatened a number of other media organizations with legal action if they published the report's contents, including the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation[146] and The Chemical Engineer magazine.[148] On 14 September 2009, WikiLeaks posted the report.[149]

On 12 October, Carter-Ruck warned The Guardian against mentioning the content of a parliamentary question that was due to be asked about the report. Instead, the paper published an article stating that they were unable to report on an unspecified question and claiming that the situation appeared to "call into question privileges guaranteeing free speech established under the 1689 Bill of Rights".[150] The suppressed details rapidly circulated via the internet and Twitter[151][152][153] and, amid uproar, Carter-Ruck agreed the next day to the modification of the injunction before it was challenged in court, permitting The Guardian to reveal the existence of the question and the injunction.[154] The injunction was lifted on 16 October.[155]
Kaupthing Bank

WikiLeaks has made available an internal document[156] from Kaupthing Bank from just prior to the collapse of Iceland's banking sector, which led to the 2008–2009 Icelandic financial crisis. The document shows that suspiciously large sums of money were loaned to various owners of the bank, and large debts written off. Kaupthing's lawyers have threatened WikiLeaks with legal action, citing banking privacy laws. The leak has caused an uproar in Iceland.[157] Criminal charges relating to the multibillion euro loans to Exista and other major shareholders are being investigated. The bank is seeking to recover loans taken out by former bank employees before its collapse.[158]
Joint Services Protocol 440

Joint Services Protocol 440 ("JSP 440") is the name of a British 2001 Ministry of Defense 2,400-page restricted document for security containing instructions for avoiding leaks in the information flow due to hackers, journalists, and foreign spies.[159][160] The protocol was posted on WikiLeaks on 3 October 2009.
9/11 pager messages

On 25 November 2009, WikiLeaks released 570,000 intercepts of pager messages sent on the day of the September 11 attacks.[161][162][163] Bradley Manning (see below) commented that those were obvious NSA intercepts.[164] Among the released messages are communications between Pentagon officials and New York City Police Department.[165]
2010
U.S. Intelligence report on WikiLeaks

On 15 March 2010, WikiLeaks released a secret 32-page U.S. Department of Defense Counterintelligence Analysis Report from March 2008. The document described some prominent reports leaked on the website which related to U.S. security interests and described potential methods of marginalizing the organization. WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange said that some details in the Army report were inaccurate and its recommendations flawed,[166] and also that the concerns of the US Army raised by the report were hypothetical.[167] The report discussed deterring potential whistleblowers via termination of employment and criminal prosecution of any existing or former insiders, leakers or whistleblowers. Reasons for the report include notable leaks such as U.S. equipment expenditure, human rights violations in Guantanamo Bay and the battle over the Iraqi town of Fallujah.[168]
Baghdad airstrike video
Main article: July 12, 2007 Baghdad airstrike

On 5 April 2010, WikiLeaks released classified U.S. military footage from a series of attacks on 12 July 2007 in Baghdad by a U.S. helicopter that killed 12, including two Reuters news staff, Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen, on a website called "Collateral Murder". The footage consisted of a 39-minute unedited version and an 18-minute version which had been edited and annotated. Analysis of the video indicates that the pilots thought the men were carrying weapons (which were actually camera equipment). When asked if they were sure that the men were carrying weapons, they answered in the affirmative.[169] The military conducted an "informal" investigation into the incident, but has yet to release the investigative materials (such as the sworn statements of the soldiers involved or the battle damage assessment) that were used, causing the report to be criticized as "sloppy."[170]

In the week following the release, "Wikileaks" was the search term with the most significant growth worldwide in the last seven days as measured by Google Insights.[171]
Arrest of Bradley Manning
Main article: Bradley Manning

A 22-year-old US Army intelligence analyst, PFC (formerly SPC) Bradley Manning, was arrested after alleged chat logs were turned in to the authorities by former hacker Adrian Lamo, in whom he had confided. Manning reportedly told Lamo he had leaked the "Collateral Murder" video, in addition to a video of the Granai airstrike and around 260,000 diplomatic cables, to WikiLeaks.[172][173] WikiLeaks said "allegations in Wired that we have been sent 260,000 classified US embassy cables are, as far as we can tell, incorrect."[174] WikiLeaks have said that they are unable as yet to confirm whether or not Manning was actually the source of the video, stating "we never collect personal information on our sources", but that they have nonetheless "taken steps to arrange for his protection and legal defence."[173][175] On 21 June Julian Assange told The Guardian that WikiLeaks had hired three US criminal lawyers to defend Manning but that they had not been given access to him.[176]

Manning reportedly wrote, "Everywhere there’s a U.S. post, there’s a diplomatic scandal that will be revealed."[177] According to the Washington Post, he also described the cables as "explaining how the first world exploits the third, in detail, from an internal perspective."[178]
Afghan War Diary
Main article: Afghan War documents leak

On 25 July 2010,[179] WikiLeaks released to The Guardian, The New York Times, and Der Spiegel over 92,000 documents related to the war in Afghanistan between 2004 and the end of 2009. The documents detail individual incidents including friendly fire and civilian casualties.[180] The scale of leak was described by Julian Assange as comparable to that of the Pentagon Papers in the 1970s. The documents were released to the public on 25 July 2010. On 29 July 2010 WikiLeaks added a 1.4 GB "Insurance File" to the Afghan War Diary page. The file is AES encrypted and has been speculated to serve as insurance in case the WikiLeaks website or its spokesman Julian Assange are incapacitated, upon which the passphrase could be published (q.v.).[181]

About 15,000 of the 92,000 documents have not yet been released on WikiLeaks, as the group is currently reviewing the documents to remove some of the sources of the information. Speaking to a group in London in August 2010, Assange said that the group will "absolutely" release the remaining documents. He stated that WikiLeaks has requested help from the Pentagon and human-rights groups to help redact the names, but has not received any assistance. He also stated that WikiLeaks is "not obligated to protect other people's sources...unless it is from unjust retribution."[182]

According to a report on the Daily Beast website, the Obama administration has asked Britain, Germany and Australia among others to consider bringing criminal charges against Assange for the Afghan war leaks and to help limit Assange's travels across international borders.[183] In the United States, a joint investigation by the Army and the Federal Bureau of Investigation may try to prosecute "Mr. Assange and others involved on grounds they encouraged the theft of government property".[184]

The Australia Defence Association (ADA) stated that WikiLeaks' Julian Assange "could have committed a serious criminal offence in helping an enemy of the Australian Defence Force (ADF)."[185] Neil James, the executive director of ADA, states: "Put bluntly, Wikileaks is not authorised in international or Australian law, nor equipped morally or operationally, to judge whether open publication of such material risks the safety, security, morale and legitimate objectives of Australian and allied troops fighting in a UN-endorsed military operation."[185]

WikiLeaks' recent leaking of classified US intelligence has been described by commentator of The Wall Street Journal as having "endangered the lives of Afghan informants" and "the dozens of Afghan civilians named in the document dump as U.S. military informants. Their lives, as well as those of their entire families, are now at terrible risk of Taliban reprisal."[186] When interviewed, Assange stated that WikiLeaks has withheld some 15,000 documents that identify informants to avoid putting their lives at risk. Specifically, Voice of America reported in August 2010 that Assange, responding to such criticisms, stated that the 15,000 still held documents are being reviewed "line by line," and that the names of "innocent parties who are under reasonable threat" will be removed.[187] Greg Gutfeld of Fox News described the leaking as "WikiLeaks' Crusade Against the U.S. Military."[188] John Pilger has reported that prior to the release of the Afghan War Diaries in July, WikiLeaks contacted the White House in writing, asking that it identify names that might draw reprisals, but received no response.[189][190]

According to the New York Times, Amnesty International and Reporters Without Borders criticized WikiLeaks for what they saw as risking people’s lives by identifying Afghans acting as informers.[191] A Taliban spokesman said that the Taliban had formed a nine-member "commission" to review the documents "to find about people who are spying."[191] He said the Taliban had a "wanted" list of 1,800 Afghans and was comparing that with names WikiLeaks provided, stating "after the process is completed, our Taliban court will decide about such people."[191]
Love Parade documents

Sometime after the Love Parade stampede in Duisburg, Germany on 24 July 2010, the local news blog Xtranews published internal documents of the city administration regarding Love Parade planning and actions by the authorities. The city government reacted by acquiring a court order on 16 August forcing Xtranews to remove the documents from its blog.[192] Two days later, however, after the documents had surfaced on other websites as well, the government stated that it would not conduct any further legal actions against the publication of the documents.[193] On 20 August WikiLeaks released a publication titled Loveparade 2010 Duisburg planning documents, 2007-2010, which comprised 43 internal documents regarding the Love Parade 2010.[194][195]
Iraq War Logs
Main article: Iraq War documents leak Wikinews has related news: Wikileaks Releases Iraq War Logs


In October 2010, it was reported that WikiLeaks was planning to release up to 400,000 documents relating to the Iraq War.[196] Julian Assange initially denied the reports, stating: "WikiLeaks does not speak about upcoming releases dates, indeed, with very rare exceptions we do not communicate any specific information about upcoming releases, since that simply provides fodder for abusive organizations to get their spin machines ready."[197] The Guardian reported on 21 October 2010 that it had received almost 400,000 Iraq war documents from WikiLeaks.[198] On 22 October 2010, Al Jazeera was the first to release analyses of the leak, dubbed The War Logs. WikiLeaks posted a tweet that "Al Jazeera have broken our embargo by 30 minutes. We release everyone from their Iraq War Logs embargoes." This prompted other news organizations to release their articles based on the source material. The release of the documents coincided with a return of the main wikileaks.org website, which had been offering no content since 30 September 2010.

The BBC quoted the Pentagon referring to the Iraq War Logs as "the largest leak of classified documents in its history." Media coverage of the leaked documents focused on claims that the US government had ignored reports of torture by the Iraqi authorities during the period after the 2003 war.[199]
Announcements on upcoming leaks

In May 2010, WikiLeaks said they had video footage of a massacre of civilians in Afghanistan by the US military which they were preparing to release.[200][201]

In an interview with Chris Anderson on 19 July 2010, Assange showed a document WikiLeaks had on an Albanian oil well blowout, and said they also had material from inside BP,[202] and that they were "getting enormous quantity of whistle-blower disclosures of a very high caliber"[203] but added that they have not been able to verify and release the material because they do not have enough volunteer journalists.[204]

At a press conference on 23 October, Assange announced that they would soon leak classified documents that WikiLeaks claimed would expose the "despotic" regime of the Russian government.[205][206]
Diplomatic cables release
Main article: United States diplomatic cables leak Wikinews has news on this topic:
Wikileaks to release thousands of secret documents; 'international embarrassment' likely, 27 November 2010
Files will risk 'countless' lives, Obama administration warns Wikileaks, 28 November 2010
Wikileaks website attacked; millions of files to be released tonight, 28 November 2010


On 22 November an announcement was made by the WikiLeaks twitter feed that the next release would be "7x the size of the Iraq War Logs."[207][208] US authorities and the media have speculated that they may contain diplomatic cables.[209] Prior to the expected leak, the government of the United Kingdom (UK) sent a DA-Notice to UK newspapers, which requests advance notice from the newspapers regarding the expected publication.[89] According to Index on Censorship, "there is no obligation on media to comply". "Newspaper editors would speak to [the] Defence, Press and Broadcasting Advisory Committee prior to publication."[89] The Pakistani newspaper Dawn stated that the US newspapers The New York Times and The Washington Post were expected to publish parts of the diplomatic cables on Sunday 28 November, including 94 Pakistan-related documents.[210]

On 26 November, via his lawyer Jennifer Robinson, Assange sent a letter to the US Department of State, asking for information regarding people who could be placed at "significant risk of harm" by the diplomatic cables release.[211][212] Harold Koh, Legal Adviser of the Department of State, refused the proposal, stating, "We will not engage in a negotiation regarding the further release or dissemination of illegally obtained U.S. Government classified materials."[212]

On 28 November, Wikileaks announced it was undergoing a massive Distributed Denial-of-service attack,[213] but vowed to still leak the cables and documents via prominent media outlets including El País, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, The Guardian, and The New York Times.[214] The announcement was shortly thereafter followed by the online publication, by The Guardian, of some of the purported diplomatic cables including one in which United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton apparently orders diplomats to obtain credit card and frequent flier numbers of the French, British, Russian and Chinese delegations to the United Nations Security Council.[215] Other revelations reportedly include that several Arab nations urged the U.S. to launch a first strike on Iran, that the Chinese government was directly involved in computer hacking, and that the U.S. is pressuring Pakistan to turn over nuclear material to prevent it from falling into the wrong hands. The cables also include unflattering appraisals of world leaders.[216] US congressman Peter T. King called for WikiLeaks to be designated as a terrorist organization in response to the leak of the cables.[217]
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[seemslikeadream]

Emory is a vocal supporter of Israel, and sees the United States' corporate infrastructure, far-right militia groups, Germany, the PLO, occult organizations, etc., as agents of an "underground Reich" bent on, among other things, eliminating the Jews, including the present state of Israel. Just want to let you all know that, in case you weren't already painting a confusing-enough picture.

hey I paint with all the colors in the crayon box, the big box, I color, you decided

[JackRiddler]

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/ ... ctatorship

US role in establishing Honduran dictatorship
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by CharlesII
Sun Nov 28, 2010 at 05:48:07 PM PST

One of the documents released by Wikileaks has established that as of July 24th, 2009, approximately one month after the coup, Ambassador Hugo Llorens had established that there was no basis for the removal of President Manuel Zelaya and that it was an illegal military coup. This is significant because:
As a Cuban exile, Ambassador Llorens was in no way sympathetic to left-leaning governments.
The cable was addressed to Legal Advisor Harold Koh, among others. Koh has been regarded as one of the "good guys" at State. This places his reputation in danger. In addition, Legal Advisor Joan Donoghue, an addressee, was elevated to the International Court of Justice and should be obliged to step down.
The Millennium Foundation Challenge Corporation, for which Hillary Clinton was Chairman of the Board, continued to deliver aid, contrary to US law.
This analysis went to the White House, meaning that the Administration thereafter participated in what it knew to be an illegal dictatorship.
CharlesII's diary :: ::

On July 24, 2009, US Ambassador to Honduras Hugo Llorens, cabled Assistant Secretary Tom Shannon, NSC Advisor Dan Restrepo, Legal Adviser Harold Koh, and Legal Advisor Joan Donoghue to advise them of his analysis of the coup that had taken place a little less than one month earlier.

Llorens was blunt, headlining the memo: OPEN AND SHUT: THE CASE OF THE HONDURAN COUP.He stated plainly that:

The Embassy perspective is that there is no doubt that the military, Supreme Court and National Congress conspired on June 28 in what constituted an illegal and unconstitutional coup against the Executive Branch... There is equally no doubt from our perspective that Roberto Micheletti's assumption of power was illegitimate.

Acknowledging that Zelaya may have overstepped his bounds, it firmly refutes the legal basis for removing Zelaya on the basis of his calling for a non-binding referendum on a Constitutional Convention, stating:

Many other Honduran officials, including presidents,going back to the first elected government under the 1982 Constitution, have proposed allowing presidential reelection, and they were never deemed to have been automatically removed from their positions as a result.
(C) It further warrants mention that Micheletti himself should be forced to resign following the logic of the 239 argument, since as President of Congress he considered legislation to have a fourth ballot box ("cuarta urna") at the November elections to seek voter approval for a

constituent assembly to rewrite the constitution. Any member of Congress who discussed the proposal should also be required to resign, and National Party presidential candidate Pepe Lobo, who endorsed the idea, should be ineligible to hold public office for 10 years.

And it plainly stated these important points:

-- the military had no authority to remove Zelaya from the
country;

-- Congress has no constitutional authority to remove a
Honduran president;

-- Congress and the judiciary removed Zelaya on the basis
of a hasty, ad-hoc, extralegal, secret, 48-hour process;

-- the purported "resignation" letter was a fabrication and
was not even the basis for Congress's action of June 28;
and

-- Zelaya's arrest and forced removal from the country
violated multiple constitutional guarantees, including the
prohibition on expatriation, presumption of innocence and
right to due process.

I analyzed the coup in a five part series: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/ ... n-Honduras

The judgment of that series, that the United States Government participated in a military coup and the establishment of a dictatorship, has now been largely vindicated by the words of Ambassador Llorens. What remains is to establish the role of the United States in the run-up to the coup and, in particular, to understand how President Zelaya was flown out through a US (co)-operated air field during his kidnapping. There are 153 cables in the time period of May 1st, 2009-July 31st, 2009, and I hope to read them all.

I'm pressed for time now, but look forward to posting later. See you in the threads, Cadejo04.

PS: Thanks to pico for the correction on the name of Millenium Challenge Corporation.
PPS: Cable ID 217920. Thanks m16eib.
PPPS: Should have credited Quotha, which picked up the El Pais posting first, and which is a blog everyone who cares about Honduras should be reading. Also, NYT now has the document.
PPPPS: Zelaya has responded. A loose translation: "This document will allow us in attending the International Criminal Court and of Human Rights to denounce the United States. As a State violating human rights, it took no precautionary steps against the Coup D'Etat. The revelation from Wikileaks compromises them deeply because, knowing of the crime, they covered it up." He directly accused US intelligence of foreknowledge and support for the coup.

Tags: Recommended, Latin American, Honduras, Honduras coup, Manuel Zelaya, democracy, foreign policy, State Department, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama (all tags) :: Previous Tag Versions

[nathan28]

Emory is a vocal supporter of Israel, and sees the United States' corporate infrastructure, far-right militia groups, Germany, the PLO, occult organizations, etc., as agents of an "underground Reich" bent on, among other things, eliminating the Jews, including the present state of Israel. Just want to let you all know that, in case you weren't already painting a confusing-enough picture.

hey I paint with all the colors in the crayon box, the big box, I color, you decided

I just passed it along through my handlers.

[nathan28]

SLAD, did you even read the stuff you quoted? Did you listen to the podcasts?

WikiLeaks has pursued a political agenda that smacks of a Third Position/UNPO/Underground Reich political orientation.

Other fun facts Emory gives us include:

** Wikileaks is hosted by a Swedish server, PRQ, in Stockholm, tied to the Pirate Bay. Allegedly, 40% of the Pirate Bay and its start-up capital was provided by Carl Lundstrum, prominent s'holder in Sandoz and supporter of overseas neo-nazis and the Swedish far right. Pedophiles also use this this server. (Therefore, WikiLeaks is Nazi pedophiles?) [Apparently, the servers for WikiLeaks located in other nations aren't important, I guess.]

** "...the political philosophy of WikiLeaks, to the extent there is one around... when one looks at much of what wikileaks has done to date it winds up bolstering the Islamist cause. And indeed they've posted information supportive of the rebels in Chechnya..."

** "...When you start publicizing sensitive nat'l security documents, who knows who is going to get a hold of them..."

** George Soros made his fortune during the Nazi "Aryanization" of Austrian businesses. Yes, Emory actually says this, I guess as a tribute to Soros's Je--I mean business--acumen as an eight-year-old.


This would really complicate the "Wikileaks is Israel" thesis.

Otherwise, 724 recapitulates the same 'Ultimate Evil meets Nazi in Exile to control the "Earth Island"' theory Emory has been talking about for decades now. In 725, Emory quotes extensively from an "interview" with John Young of Cryptome--an interview that is quite possibly itself a smear: http://blather.net/zeitgeist/archives/2010/04/cryptome_definitively_supports.html
http://www.corbettreport.com/index.php?ii=299&i=Documentation

Check out the comments:

John Young might support Wikileaks but it doesn’t change the fact that he charged that it was a CIA front supported by George Soros when he left the organization in 2007. The Soros connection is definitely shown, and also red flags are raised by the “rouge” Wikileaks being trumpeted by the most controlled of the establishment media ( even before the recent video. )

A very good interview with a written description is here.. http://newsofinterest.tv/audio_pages/aj ... _04_01.php

Posted by: edward at April 15, 2010 11:19 PM



Was it really a 'charge'? John Young says he has been quoted out of context. In 2007, WikiLeaks wanted to raise $5 million and Young said that only the CIA or Soros could provide that kind of money, and he wanted nothing to do with it. That's the 'charge'. They never raised $5 million. Wayne Madsen is jumping to conclusions, I believe, but I've linked to his conspiracy theory before, for those readers who want to delve into it. I don't need to watch him repeat it to Alex Jones.

Posted by: Barry at April 16, 2010 1:23 AM



I think it is worth adding John Young has said he does NOT KNOW the identity of the 'wikileaks insider' -- this is the major problem with his previous claims, he speculated its quite possibly it is someone attempting to sabotage the organisation.

http://cryptome.org/0002/wikileaks-clarify.htm

Posted by: zryup at September 23, 2010 6:03 PM

Wayne Madsen? Jumping to conspiritard conclusions? Never!


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Here's what I don't understand: this board has parapolitics enthusiasts, but the only conclusions I see here is the "WikiLeaks is a Limited Hang-Out/Agents/Honey pot/Disinfo initiative" etc. What I don't see is the very real possibility that WikiLeaks could be a self-interested, mercenary party, acting, like I suggested earlier, on something that resembles a corporate plan making use of a PR windfall. Hence the disappearing of all that 'everyday' data in very unexciting documents, like college fraternities' secrets--after all, the NY Times doesn't really care that the bros. in Sigma Alpha Epsilon stand in a circle blindfolded pledging loyalty while holding the guy next to them's junk, but the fact that someone was even able to capture that document a likely low-circulation, really fucking irrelevant document is pretty surprising, acrobatics-metal-detecting style. Those early posts were just part of an effort to showcase Wikileaks ability to capture seeming obscure data--this recent round of leaks shows that WikiLeaks can capture high-value state-level secret targets as well. Some of the emails John Young posts indicate that WikiLeaks is just as mercenary as it is committed to an anarchist/libertarian world.

But even this is speculation. I have no idea WTF is going on there. But the knee-jerk reaction that WikiLeaks must be "Them" "controlled opposition" "MC puppets" "Israel" etc. might be part of the reason I'm browsing the new, chemtrails-free RI forum.


OTOH, the program that follows Emory on WFMU that gets bookended onto his podcasts has some really awesome psychedelic-garage-punk and I'm happy to discover it, so at least something good came out of wasting another two hours of my life listening to Emory's Best of Mae Brussells 1976 Drone-O-Thon. "This begins side one of..." WTF? It's 2010, dawg, not even computers use tapes anymore (with 3TB hard drives I sure hope not).

[seemslikeadream]

SLAD, did you even read the stuff you quoted? Did you listen to the podcasts?

Thanks for doing my work for me nathan now I will take my boot off your head


Why don't you beat up on Project Willow too? She'd probably feel left out? After all it was so enjoyable

[Montag]

Wikileaks founder 17 Different Hairstyles
http://www.buzzfeed.com/sayomg/wikileak ... styles-tah

[Project Willow]

Don't worry SLAD, Nathan is like a dog chasing its tail, telling him his tail is not a rabbit just ruins his fun.

I'll give it a try though and state that people post items on this discussion board to foster discussion, not to prop some tacitly held political consensus.

(on edit: well, a lot of the time )