Just like in a 007 film, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has kept thousands of secret US diplomatic files at a former Swedish Cold War nuclear bunker that houses dozens of powerful computer servers used as storage by many companies.
Unlike in the past, the latest tranche of secret United States diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks have not been leaked, but have been "legitimately obtained from a US government web site" and released in a user-friendly searchable format. Nearly 1.7 million diplomatic cables from the period between 1973 and 1976 -- now being dubbed as 'The Kissinger cable' -- were declassified by the US State Department in 2006.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has revealed that he has sent out 100,000 encrypted versions of secret files in case anything happens to him.Assange acknowledged that there had been death threats against him and his colleagues because of the damaging leaks. The encrypted filed are the insurance policy he had put in place to ensure that his whistle-blowing website will not be silenced, whatever drastic steps may be taken by his enemies.
It has been consistently unearthing and disseminating concealed documents online for the last three years. But when it recently released the Afghan War Diary -- a confidential compilation of over 90,000 documents about the war in Afghanistan -- WikiLeaks hogged the limelight not only in the virtual world but in the physical one as well.
Bradley Manning, a United States soldier accused of disclosing secret cables to WikiLeaks, made his first court appearance for a pre-trial hearing on Friday. His lawyers argued that the reserve officer presiding over the proceedings should recuse himself for perceived bias. The proceedings in a Maryland court are being held to determine whether Bradley, 24, should be tried on charges of staeling secret US cables and passing them over to WikiLeaks.
According to the WikiLeaks cables published by the Hindu, just five days before the United Progressive Alliance government faced a trust vote in 2008 over the Indo-US nuclear deal, a political aide to Congress politician Satish Sharma showed a United States embassy official 'two chests containing cash'. This, he described as part of a large stash of Rs 50 to Rs 60 crore the Congress party had put together to buy out votes from members of Parliament
France, not sure about Pakistan's nuclear deterrent, has decided against supplying nuclear energy technology to it, according to a secret United States diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks.
Besides creating political embarrassment, the leak of cables visibly containing informal State-to State coversations by WikiLeaks could see the drying-up of interactions at the foreign office and intelligence agencies levels, writes B Raman
Cutting across party lines, United States lawmakers expressed their outrage at what they called "illegal" publication of classified American documents by WikiLeaks, and asked the Obama administration to use all legal means to shut down this whistleblower website.
Nearly 250,000 classified United States documents procured by WikiLeaks give detail about a wide variety of secret diplomatic episodes and incidences of backroom bargaining, the New York Times reported on Sunday.
A former Swiss banker on Monday handed over documents of 2,000 high net worth people from the United States, Britain and Asia to WikiLeaks that he claims would expose attempts by these business leaders and lawmakers to evade tax payments.
Rediff.com brings for you the FOURTH in the series of leaked Wiki cables, which point towards some startling revelations.
A top Singaporean diplomat described India as "stupid", saying the country was "half in, half out" of the ASEAN grouping, according to leaked US cables.
Just two months before she was killed in a terror attack, former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto had approached the United States ambassador in Islamabad, asking for help to evaluate her personal security. But her request was ignored, the latest cables published by whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks have revealed. Bhutto handed over a written request to US Ambassador Anne W Patterson two months before she was killed, asking her to carry out an evaluation of the security
A helpless White House on Friday implored WikiLeaks, which is reportedly in possession of 15,000 more classified documents on the Afghanistan war, not to post any more of the records, saying US national security and life of its soldiers and Afghan nationals were at risk.
Revelations by the WikiLeaks are having a positive impact, believes its founder Julian Assange, who claims that the publication of secret United States embassy cables by the Indian media had helped inspire an anti-graft movement in the country.
The internet whistle-blower who has been in hiding for nearly a week was arrested when he walked into a metropolitan police station as 0930 hrs and Scotland Yard said he was arrested on a European arrest warrant.
The US termed as "deeply disturbing" the release of secret cables by WikiLeaks and said the whistleblower website was "inviting" terrorist attacks by making public documents about some of the key infrastructures projects across the globe.
The latest tranche of WikiLeaks published in the media has revealed that Zardari had made extensive preparations in case of his own assassination and instructed his son Bilawal to name his sister, Faryal Talpur, as president.
While the international community has long suspected that the US has warheads remaining in Europe, the locations of the bombs have never been revealed -- until now.
The WikiLeaks expose on the alleged 'cash-for-votes' scam in 2008 on Friday disrupted Parliament proceedings, as a united Opposition demanded a clarification from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the matter. The cables published by WikiLeaks alleged that the United Progressive Alliance government had bribed MPs to win the 2008 trust vote after the Left parties withdrew support on the Indo-US nuclear deal.
The website will, however, not release this material during the court martial of its source, US Army Private Bradley Manning, according to a report by The Age on Tuesday.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who has been in a damage control mode ever since the explosive cables were leaked out by WikiLeaks, made a telephone call to External Affairs Minister S M Krishna to discuss a wide range of issues ranging from bilateral relationship, to the situation in the region including Afghanistan, besides WikiLeaks cables.
A series of diplomatic cables, available on WikiLeaks and the United States National Archives, contain mentions of Nath backing A B A Ghani Khan Choudhury as a replacement for then West Bengal chief minister Siddhartha Shankar Ray, a position Pranab Mukherjee, now president, too, was said to be eyeing.
US embassy cables released by whistleblower website WikiLeaks reveal that teams of US special forces have been secretly working with Pakistan military in the tribal areas, the Guardian said.
In a shocking revelation, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said black money mainly comes from India.
China's presumed future president Xi Jinping is an "extremely ambitious" person who is incorruptible and has chosen to survive by becoming "redder than reds", a US diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks said.
A K Antony was "one of the only" leaders apart from Priyaranjan Dasmunsi who "flatly criticised" Sanjay Gandhi during a session of the All India Congress Committee in 1976 in Guwahati, during the Emergency, when the latter's political graph was on the rise, United States diplomatic cables have claimed.
Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks on Monday began publishing -- The Global Intelligence Files -- more than five million confidential emails from Texas-headquartered "global intelligence" company Stratfor that has been likened to a shadow Central Intelligence Agency.
The whistle blower website WikiLeaks is being exploited for propaganda purposes against India by Pakistani newspapers, which have published fake cables attacking the Indian Army.
In an online poll conducted by Time magazine for its readers WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has beaten the likes of United States President Barack Obama and Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs to be nominated as 'Person of the Year'. Here's a list of 2010's top 10 personalities.
This was not the first time "Wiki" - a widely used, free resource - was appealing for funds. Finally, reports indicated that Google had agreed to pay for Wikipedia content.
White House ruled out a similar consideration for Edward Snowden, who is currently on a political asylum in Russia.
Without disclosing specific details, he said the leaked documents would be hosted on the WikiLeaks website early next year.
Contrary to Pakistani military's persistent assertion that it will not allow foreign troops to operate within the country, United States special forces were embedded with Pakistani troops for intelligence gathering and were also deployed on joint operations in their territory, according to secret US diplomatic cables.
The main trend of these cables have shown that "our government has been succumbing to American pressures... particularly on foreign policy (with the government) accepting the broad thrust of US policies," CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat told media persons in New Delhi.
US diplomatic cables say Indian partners might be actually lobbying against raising the FDI cap.
A few hours after her release, Manning posted a photo that showed her in a pair of new black Converse sneakers with the caption: 'First steps of freedom!!'
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Wednesday lost his appeal against extradition from the United Kingdom to Sweden to face charges of rape and sexual assault in that country.
Ford Foundation, whose financing came under scrutiny in India last year, appears to have received help from John Podesta, chairman of the Clinton Campaign, to resolve the issue for which he is believed to have spoken to Prime Minister Narendra Modi too, according to latest emails released by WikiLeaks.
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