US Intell planned to destroy Wikileaks

[Peter Presland]

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As a result of the latest of a number of communications to Cryptome via the encrypted message forwarding facility PGPBoard, by a group identifying itself "Wikileaks Insiders", the PGPboard operators sent an open letter to Birgitta Jónsdóttir (an Icelandic MP and colleague of Julian Assange) conveying "Wikileaks Insiders'" declaration of support should she be willing to take over the fronting of Wikileaks from Assange. The following is her reply dated 6 September 2010:

dear xxxxx

the messenger should never become the message as has happened with JA
i however fear that the media circus would make me into yet another mythic person that is not good for wikileaks at all
wikileaks should have spokes people that are conservative and not strong persons, rather dull, so to speak, so that the message will be delivered without the messenger getting all the attention
whilst i find it to be important to speak out about how i find it troubling to mix together wikileaks and personal matters like is happening right now - i have no desire to take over as a front person
i feel the most urgent matter is that the core people of wikileaks will have a meeting where structure and transparency issues are solved
wikileaks has grown so much in the last few months but the needed structure of more horizontal nature has not grown the same - most of us working as volunteers for wikileaks do not feel at ease with pyramid structure in power
i do not know who wikileaks insiders are but feel they should step forward and show some transparency themselves...
all my best
Birgitta Jónsdóttir