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On 27 February 2012, WikiLeaks began to publish what it called "The Global Intelligence Files", more than 5,000,000 e-mails from Stratfor dating from July 2004 to late December 2011. It was said to show how a private intelligence agency operates and how it targets individuals for their corporate and government clients.
Iraq War documents leak: A WikiLeaks disclosure of a collection of 391,832 United States Army field reports. [10] [11] [12] United States diplomatic cables leak: A WikiLeaks disclosure of classified cables that had been sent to the U.S. State Department by 274 of its consulates, embassies, and diplomatic missions around the world. [13]
Various outlets said WikiLeaks' description of the Stratfor leak was "like one long toot on a dog-whistle for the paranoid" [34] that the files "seem fairly low level and gossipy" [35] that "this particular WikiLeaks dump should probably be taken to the dump and dumped" [36] and that one seemingly incriminating email published by the New York ...
On 13 April 2017, CIA director Mike Pompeo declared WikiLeaks to be a "hostile intelligence service." [17] In September 2021, Yahoo! News reported that in 2017 in the wake of the Vault 7 leaks, the CIA considered kidnapping or assassinating Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. The CIA also considered spying on associates of WikiLeaks ...
In particular, the IP addresses of visitors to WikiLeaks were collected in real time, and the US government urged its allies to file criminal charges against the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, due to his organization's publication of the Afghanistan war logs. The WikiLeaks organization was designated as a "malicious foreign actor". [354]
In June 2010, The Guardian journalist Nick Davies and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange established that the U.S. Army had built a huge database with six years of sensitive military intelligence material. WikiLeaks wanted to release the material immediately, but Davies convinced him to let the Guardian examine it first. [22]
The Kissinger cables [1] are 1.7 million United States diplomatic and intelligence records dating from 1973 to 1976 that had previously been declassified and released by the National Archives and Records Administration [2] and were republished in searchable form by WikiLeaks in April 2013.
WikiLeaks spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson said with reference to the cable: "This further undermines claims made by the US Government that its embassy officials do not play an intelligence-gathering role." Part of the cable read: "Posts are not/not being asked to consult with host governments with respect to this request." [16]