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WikiLeaks publishes more than 1.7 million United States records - Magda Hassan - 08-04-2013
Looking forward to what they have to say in the cables from Canberra and Santiago. Both had US removal of their elected governments during this time period.
Quote:WikiLeaks publishes more than 1.7 million United States records
By Alan Jones 08 April 2013
Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks today published more than 1.7 million United States records covering diplomatic or intelligence reports on every country in the world.
Much of the work was carried out by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange during his time in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he has been staying since last summer.
He sought refuge at the embassy last June over fears that he would be sent to the United States if he was extradited to Sweden to face sexual offence claims by two women - charges he denies.
The Ecuadorian Government has granted Mr Assange political asylum and has repeatedly offered Swedish prosecutors the chance to interview the Australian at the embassy, which is based in London's Knightsbridge area.
The data released today comprises more than 1.7 million US diplomatic records from the beginning of 1973 to the end of 1976, covering a variety of diplomatic traffic including cables, intelligence reports and congressional correspondence.
WikiLeaks has called the collection the Public Library of US Diplomacy (PlusD), describing it as the world's largest searchable collection of US confidential, or formerly confidential, diplomatic communications.
Mr Assange told the Press Association that the information showed the "vast range and scope" of US diplomatic and intelligence activity around the world.
Henry Kissinger was US Secretary of State and National Security Adviser during the period covered by the collection, and many of the reports were written by him, or were sent to him.
Thousands of the documents are marked NODIS (no distribution) or Eyes Only, as well as cables originally classed as secret or confidential.
Mr Assange said WikiLeaks had undertaken a detailed analysis of the communications, adding that the information eclipsed Cablegate, a set of more than 250,000 US diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks from November 2010 and over the following year.
These documents were released after being anonymously leaked, detailing US foreign policy over the last decade.
The collection published today has not been leaked, but Mr Assange said WikiLeaks had been working for the past year to analyse and assess a vast amount of data held at the US national archives before releasing it in a searchable form.
Mr Assange said WikiLeaks had developed sophisticated technical systems to deal with "complex and voluminous" data.
Top secret documents were not available, while some others were lost or irreversibly corrupted for periods including December 1975 and March and June 1976, said Mr Assange.
He added that his mother, who lives in Australia, had told him he was being kept at the embassy "with nothing to do but work on WikiLeaks material".
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/wikileaks-publishes-more-than-17-million-united-states-records-29179986.html
WikiLeaks publishes more than 1.7 million United States records - David Guyatt - 08-04-2013
Yes, the US manipulated events as they wanted to shut him up, but have miscalculated. Arrogance goes before a fall, eh.
WikiLeaks publishes more than 1.7 million United States records - Anthony Thorne - 08-04-2013
It took a few minutes playing around with the search engines on that Wikileaks page to realise I had to scroll down to see the results. One of the search tags listed is 'assassinations', so hopefully they'll have some good stuff.
WikiLeaks publishes more than 1.7 million United States records - Peter Lemkin - 08-04-2013
Interesting history of financial control attempts to stop Wikileaks....
Financial Blockade: Chronology
- 27 November 2010: United States - US State Department intentionally and wrongfully imply (but do not formally state) illegal conduct by WikiLeaks in a letter to lawyers for Julian Assange, which they then immediately leak to the press
- 29 November 2010: Global - Cablegate publication starts with New York Times, Der Spiegel, El Pais & the Guardian, expanding eventually to over 90 publications in over 50 countries.
- 29 November 2010 and following days: United States - Assassination calls and declarations of war by US senators, pundits and media against WikiLeaks.
- 1 December 2010: United States/Global - Amazon stops hosting WikiLeaks
- 2 December 2010: United States/Global - EveryDNS stops wikileaks.org domain service
- 3 December 2010: United States/Global - Paypal discontinues service
- 4 December 2010: Germany - PayPal blocks Wau Holland Stiftung's (WHS, the foundation receiving donations for WikiLeaks) access to its account and freezes remaining money for 180 days. The money is released immediately by PayPal after a WHS lawyer intervenes.
- 6 December 2010: Switzerland - Swiss Post Finance freezes Julian Assange Defence Fund account in Switzerland
- 7 December 2010: United States/Global - Visa and MasterCard stop processing payments to WikiLeaks.
Germany - A letter from the FA Kassel (Kassel tax department) to WHS Foundation, which receives donations for WikiLeaks, asked whether donations have been transferred to WikiLeaks. WHS responded promptly, with data detailing transfers to WikiLeaks
- 8 December 2010: United States/global - Updated Statement about WikiLeaks from PayPal General Counsel
- 9 December 2010: Global - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights condemns blockade
- 12 December 2010: Iceland - Icelandic Parliament Considers Revoking Visa/MasterCard Licenses For Wikileaks Ban
- 15 December 2010: Germany - FA Kassel (tax department) announces WHS (the foundation that receives donations for WikiLeaks) charitable status may be revoked (pending investigation).
- 16 December 2010: Global - Amnesty International examines Human Rights at stake when blocking WikiLeaks payments
- 18 December 2010: United States/global - Bank of America discontinues any services intended for WikiLeaks
- 20 December 2010: United States - Apple removes WikiLeaks application for iPhones
- 21 December 2010: United States/Global - Western Union adds WikiLeaks to 'Interdiction List'
Global: UN and OAS Special Rapporteurs on Freedom of Expression issue a Joint Statement Condemning the Blockade against WikiLeaks
- 26 December 2010: United States: New York Times Editorial Condemns Blockade
- 30 December 2010: Denmark/Global - Denmark-based contractor for VISA Europe and MasterCard, Teller AS, reports that WikiLeaks has not violated any VISA regulations, Icelandic or Danish laws.
- 1 January 2011: Germany WHS Foundation, which receives donations for WikiLeaks moves its office from Kassel to Hamburg
- 13 January 2011: United States - US Treasury finds no grounds to blacklist WikiLeaks
- 17 January 2011: UK - WikiLeaks Press conference with Rudolf Elmer
- 19 January 2011: Switzerland - Elmer is handed suspended sentence. He is the arrested without charge in connection with WikiLeaks press conference.
- 9 February 2011: United States/Global - Bank of America, who hired data intelligence firms HBGary, Palantir Technologies and Berico Technologies, is revealed to have commisioned a proposal of a systematic attack against WikiLeaks. The proposal is leaked.
- 24 February/1 March 2011: United States Ethics complaint filed at the DC Bar against law firm Hunton&Williams and members of Congress call for probe into illegal conduct by the firm (hired by Bank of America to sabotage WikiLeaks and target WikiLeaks' supporters)
- 14 February 2011: Germany: FA Hamburg-Nord (tax department) drops Kassel investigation into WHS Foundation's (which receives donations for WikiLeaks) charitable status, but initiates a new investigation on different grounds.
- 9 June 2011: EU - WikiLeaks & Datacell announce prospective EU Commission Complaint against VISA and Mastercard
- 7 - 8 July 2011: Iceland/Global - DataCell: Credit card donation to WikiLeaks is accepted again but VISA closes payments hours after
- 14 July 2011: EU - WikiLeaks & Datacell file a Complaint to the European Commission for infringement of the EU Anti Trust Laws
- 25 July 2011: Switzerland - Rudolf Elmer is released after 187 days in detention. He had not been charged.
- 24 October 2011: Global - WikiLeaks suspends publication to invest all resources in fighting the blockade.
Germany - Decision on revoking WHS (the foundation that receives donations for WikiLeaks) status is still pending; WHS has been prevented from opening new bank accounts in Switzerland and Germany for the past 9 months.
For information on how to beat the banks visit our donate page.
For further information on the banking blockade against WikiLeaks download this PDF.
A kit with full information on the blockade and tools to assist WikiLeaks through it can be downloaded here.
http://wikileaks.org/Banking-Blockade.html
WikiLeaks publishes more than 1.7 million United States records - Anthony Thorne - 08-04-2013
I liked this one, which offers some nice fodder for astronomers worried about space junk, or UFO buffs, I'm not sure which.
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973NATO01541_b.html
OUTER SPACE: REGISTRATION OF SPACE OBJECTS
1. WE PROVIDED POLADS MAR 27 WITH TEXT OF STATEMENT REF AAND TEXT OF DRAFT REGISTRATION CONVENTION REF B.
2. CANADIAN REP, WHOSE INQUIRY WAS ECHOED BY SEVERALOTHERS, ASKED US REP FOR SOME SPECIFICS ON SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS INVOLVED WHICH LED TO DEVELOPMENT OF DRAFT USCONVENTION. US REP REPLIED HE WOULD SEEK GUIDANCE. MATTERWILL BE CONSIDERED FURTHER AT NEXT POLADS MEETING APR 3.
3. COMMENT: INQUIRY FOR SPECIFICS WAS PREDICTABLE. WEBELIEVE A RESPONSE IS CALLED FOR, GIVEN US DECISION TO SEEKSUPPORT OF ALLIES THROUGH NATO ON JUDGEMENT THAT THESEWOULD BE GREATER SENSITIVITY IN NATO TO SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS. WE RECOMMEND THAT DEPT PREPARE ACONFIDENTIAL BRIEFING, AT SECRET LEVEL, TO BE GIVEN ORALLYAND ELABORATING ON WHAT SECURITY MATTERS ARE INVOLVED.
END COMMENT
RUMSFELD
WikiLeaks publishes more than 1.7 million United States records - Anthony Thorne - 08-04-2013
An interesting one following the Whitlam dismissal, recording the comments of future PM Paul Keating.
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975SYDNEY02354_b.html
AUSTRALIAN POLITICAL CRISIS
1. SUMMARY: RECENTLY APPOINTED MINISTER NORTHERN TERRITORIES(IN WHITLAM GOVT) PAUL KEATING, AN ALP MEMBER PARLIAMENT FROMSYDNEY, CONFIRMED IN MOST BITTER TERMS EMBASSY CANBERRA'SJUDGMENT IN PARA ONE REFTEL THAT NATURE OF PARLIAMENTARYDEMOCRACY BEING ALTERED AND THE FUTURE IS ONE OF INSTABILITY.HE MADE SEVERAL POINTS:
2. GOVERNOR GENERAL KERR'S ACTION IS PROOF OF "ESTABLISHMENT'S DETERMINATION TO GET RID OF LABOR GOVERNMENT AT ANYCOST". IT WILL DEEPEN HOSTILITY TO ESTABLISHMENT, "STRENGTHENTHE REDS AND PUT MODERATES AT MERCY OF EXTREMISTS". KEATINGCHARGED GOVERNOR GENERAL CONSPIRED SECRETLY WITH FRASER.HAD KERR FRANKLY GIVEN WHITLAM A CHOICE BETWEEN RESIGNATIONOR CALLING DOUBLE DISSOLUTION (IN ORDER TO BREAK DEADLOCK)WHITLAM WOULD HAVE CALLED ELECTION AND WON IT FROM THEADVANTAGEOUS POSITION OF BEING IN POWER. IN FACT, KERR DID NOT OFFER THIS CLEAR-CUT CHOICE BUT REACHED HIS OWN CONCLUSION (WHICH FRASER KNEW IN ADVANCE) AND EXECUTED IT ONTHE SPOT BY WITHDRAWING WHITLAM'S COMMISSION.
3. AS RESULT KERR GAVE FRASER THE IMMENSE ADVANTAGE OF WAGINGCAMPAIGN FROM POSITION OF POWER. RESULTS ALREADY EVIDENTSAYS KEATING. FRASER PUBLICLY INDICATED INTENTION TO USEABC WHILE OWNERS OF PRO-FRASER PRESS ARE GIVING HIM UNFAIRADVANTAGE BY HAVING MANAGEMENT INTERFERE IN THE NEWS COVERAGEAND MAKE-UP REPORTAGE. HE MENTIONED PAGE ONE OF TODAY'SAUSTRALIAN AND PAGE TWO OF YESTERDAY'S MIRROR AS EXAMPLES.SOME ELEMENTS IN ALP CONSIDERING WHETHER TO STRIKE BACK,"CLOSING DOWN THE PRESS BY CALLING OUT THE PRINTERS ANDDELIVERY UNIONS ON STRIKE". THESE ELEMENTS WOULD IGNORE ACTUPRESIDENT HAWKE'S ADMONITION AGAINST INDUSTRIAL ACTION. HOW-EVER, KEATING ADDED DECISION NOT YET MADE AND WILL DEPEND ONJUDGMENT WHETHER STRIKE WOULD BENEFIT PARTY OR BE COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE.
4. KEATING ACKNOWLEDGED CRISIS REVEALS DEEP SCHIZOIDTENDENCY IN AUSTRALIAN CONSTITUTION WHICH INCORPORATES INCOMPATIBLE CHUNKS OF BRITISH WESTMINSTER AND AMERICANFEDERAL SYSTEMS. CANNOT BE CORRECTED BY AMENDMENT IN FORESEEABLE FUTURE BECAUSE OF OPPOSITION FROM STATES, L/CP ANDCONSERVATIVE POPULACE IN COUNTRYSIDE. KNOWING THIS, ANDCONVINCED THE "ESTABLISHMENT" WOULD FORCE LABOR GOVERNMENTOUT ASAP BY ANY AVAILABLE MEANS, WHITLAM DECIDED AT OUTSETHIS ADMINISTRATION IN DECEMBER 1972 TO RAM THROUGH AS MUCHNEW SOCIAL REFORM AS POSSIBLE, SAYING, "THEY'LL GET US OUT.LET'S DO WHAT WE CAN WHILE WE ARE HERE". AS KEATING SEES ITPRIMIN'S PROPHECY HAS COME TRUE AND IF ALP LOSES THIS ELECTION"CAN THE LABOR PARTY WHICH HAS HELD THE REDS AT BAY ALL THESEYEARS, DO SO ANY LONGER?"
5. COMMENT: WHILE KEATING (A MODERATE) IS PARTLY ANIMATEDBY IMMEDIATE SENSE OF RAGE, HIS REMARKS ARE CONSISTENT WITHHIS LINE TWO MONTHS AGO AT A MUCH CALMER TIME. INDEED EVENTHEN HE FORESAW POSSIBLE STRIKES TO CLOSE DOWN THE PRESS ANDEVEN USE OF POLICE AND ARMY IF STRIKE BREAKERS WERE BROUGHTIN (SEE MEMCON SEPTEMBER 16).
HANNAH
CONFIDENTIAL
WikiLeaks publishes more than 1.7 million United States records - Anthony Thorne - 08-04-2013
A general word search on 'Rumsfeld' brings up numerous communiques sent by the man during his Gladio-adjacent tenure with NATO in Belgium.
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973NATO01371_b.html
TERRORISM: NATO CONSULTATIONS ON FURTHER MEASURES
1. AT PERMREP LUNCH ON MARCH 20, I PLAN TO FOLLOW- UP MYPRESENTATION IN THE COUNCIL LAST WEEK BY PROPOSING PER REFTELTHAT ON MARCH 28 NAC CONSIDER:
-- HOW TO DISCOURAGE SUPPORT BY ARAB GOVERNMENTS OF ARABTERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS;
-- EFFORTS UNDERTAKEN AS A CONSEQUENCE OF NATO CONSULTATIONS LASTDECEMBER, AND WHAT FURTHER CAN BE DONE IN NATO; AND
-- INTERNAL DOMESTIC PROCEDURES TO DEAL WITH ARAB TERRORISTS.
2. I ALSO RECOMMEND THAT THE DEPARTMENT AUTHORIZE ME TOPROPOSE ON MARCH 28 THAT THE COUNCIL CONVENE A MEETING IN LATEAPRIL WITH INTERIOR MINISTERS AND ATTORNIES GENERAL TOCONSIDER, IN PARTICULAR, HOW TO COPE WITH PROBLEM REPRESENTEDBY ARAB TERRORIST ACTIVITIES IN WESTERN COUNTRIES ANDESPECIALLY IN EUROPE. IN MY VIEW, SUCH A MEETING WOULDSERVE TO FOCUS CABINET-LEVEL ATTENTION IN OTHER NATOGOVERNMENTS TO THE PROBLEM. I BELIEVE THAT ATTORNEY GENERALKLEINDIENST TOGETHER WITH HIS COUNTERPARTS COULD WITH PROFITREVIEW NATIONAL PROCEDURES AND CONSIDER WHAT NEW POLICIES HAVEWORKED AND MIGHT WITH ADVANTAGE BE ADOPTED MORE WIDELY. ONE AIM OF SUCH A MEETING -- WHICH NEED NOT LAST FOR MORE THAN A DAYAND A HALF -- WOULD BE THE DEVELOPMENT OF A PROGRAM AND WORKINGGROUP DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE TO INTERIOR MINISTERS. OTHEREUROPEAN STATES NOT MEMBERS OF NATO COULD BE ASKED TO COMMENTUPON AND SUBSCRIBE TO THIS PROGRAM. THE WORKING GROUP, IFINFORMALLY CONSTITUTED, COULD ATTRACT THE PARTICIPATION OF THESENON-NATO COUNTRIES.
3. I WOULD APPRECIATE AN EARLY RESPONSE.
RUMSFELD
WikiLeaks publishes more than 1.7 million United States records - Anthony Thorne - 08-04-2013
Discussion of a book critical of CIA involvement in Italian politics.
THE CIA AND THE VATICAN: EXCERPTS FROM NEW BOOK
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Chilean military personnel take pot-shots at RFK Jr. during a skiing trip.
ROBERT F. KENNEDY, JR
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The House Select Committee on Assassinations plans a trip to Mexico.
VISIT OF STAFF INVESTIGATORS OF HOUSE AND SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS
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A Swedish magazine alleges the CIA maintains a secret psychological study of Olof Palme on file.
SWEDISH MAGAZINE SPECULATES ON ROLE OF CIA REPORT IN SWEDISH- AMERICAN RELATIONS
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A media strategy is contemplated regarding Daniel Ellsberg's allegations of a massive CIA station operating in Mexico City.
REACTION TO ELLSBERG CHARGES RE CIA IN MEXICO
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975MEXICO10409_b.html
WikiLeaks publishes more than 1.7 million United States records - Peter Lemkin - 08-04-2013
Type in the keyword 'Gladio' and several documents - all under Turkey pop up.....Sibel was correct!
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WikiLeaks publishes more than 1.7 million United States records - Anthony Thorne - 08-04-2013
Peter, can you link the Gladio documents you found? They didn't come up when I did a keyword search.
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Discussion of strategies regarding inconvenient FOI requests and leaks in Italy.
MISUSE OF CLASSIFIED DOCUMENT: THREE CASE STUDIES
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1976ROME03248_b.html