About the Book
   It was the biggest leak in history. WikiLeaks infuriated the world’s greatest superpower, embarrassed the British royal family and helped cause a revolution in Africa. The man behind it was Julian Assange, one of the strangest figures ever to become a worldwide celebrity. Was he an internet messiah or a cyber-terrorist? Information freedom fighter or sex criminal? The debate would echo around the globe as US politicians called for his assassination.
   Award-winning Guardian journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding have been at the centre of a unique publishing drama that involved the release of some 250,000 secret diplomatic cables and classified files from the Afghan and Iraq wars. At one point the platinum-haired hacker was hiding from the CIA in David Leigh’s London house. Now, together with the paper’s investigative reporting team, Leigh and Harding reveal the startling inside story of the man and the leak.
 

 
 
 
 
   
   Inside Julian Assange’s
 
    War on Secrecy
 
 
 
   David Leigh and Luke Harding
   with Ed Pilkington, Robert Booth and Charles Arthur
 
 
 
 
 
   
 

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   First published in Great Britain in 2011 by
 
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   CONTENTS
 
   Cast of characters
   Introduction
   Chapter 1: The Hunt
   Chapter 2: Bradley Manning
   Chapter 3: Julian Assange
   Chapter 4: The rise of WikiLeaks
   Chapter 5: The Apache video
   Chapter 6: The Lamo dialogues
   Chapter 7: The deal
   Chapter 8: In the bunker
   Chapter 9: The Afghanistan war logs
   Chapter 10: The Iraq war logs
   Chapter 11: The cables
   Chapter 12: The world’s most famous man
   Chapter 13: Uneasy partners
   Chapter 14: Before the deluge
   Chapter 15: Publication day
   Chapter 16: The biggest leak in history
   Chapter 17: The ballad of Wandsworth jail
   Chapter 18: The future of WikiLeaks
   Appendix: US Embassy Cables
   Acknowledgements
 

 
 
   CAST OF CHARACTERS
 
 
   WikiLeaks
   MELBOURNE, NAIROBI, REYKJAVIK, BERLIN, LONDON, NORFOLK, STOCKHOLM
   Julian Assange – WikiLeaks founder/editor
   Sarah Harrison – aide to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
   Kristinn Hrafnsson – Icelandic journalist and WikiLeaks supporter
   James Ball – WikiLeaks data expert
   Vaughan Smith – former Grenadier Guards captain, founder of the Frontline Club and Assange’s host at Ellingham Hall
   Jacob Appelbaum – WikiLeaks’ representative in the US
   Daniel Ellsberg – Vietnam war whistleblower, WikiLeaks supporter
   Daniel Domscheit-Berg – German programmer and WikiLeaks technical architect (aka Daniel Schmitt)
   Mikael Viborg – owner of WikiLeaks’ Swedish internet service provider PRQ
   Ben Laurie – British encryption expert, adviser to Assange on encryption
   Mwalimu Mati – head of anti-corruption group Mars Group Kenya, source of first major WikiLeaks report
   Rudolf Elmer – former head of the Cayman Islands branch of the Julius Baer bank, source of second major WikiLeaks report
   Smári McCarthy – Iceland-based WikiLeaks enthusiast, programmer, Modern Media Initiative (MMI) campaigner
   Birgitta Jónsdóttir – Icelandic MP and WikiLeaks supporter
   Rop Gonggrijp – Dutch hacker-businessman, friend of Assange and MMI campaigner
   Herbert Snorrason – Icelandic MMI campaigner
   Israel Shamir – WikiLeaks associate
   Donald Böstrom – Swedish journalist and WikiLeaks’ Stockholm connection
 
 
   The Guardian
   LONDON
   Alan Rusbridger – editor-in-chief
   Nick Davies – investigative reporter
   David Leigh – investigations editor
   Ian Katz – deputy editor (news)
   Ian Traynor – Europe correspondent
   Harold Frayman – systems editor
   Declan Walsh – Pakistan/Afghanistan correspondent
   Alastair Dant – data visualiser
   Simon Rogers – data editor
   Jonathan Steele – former Iraq correspondent
   James Meek – former Iraq correspondent
   Rob Evans – investigative journalist
   Luke Harding – Moscow correspondent
   Robert Booth – reporter
   Stuart Millar – news editor, guardian.co.uk
   Janine Gibson – editor, guardian.co.uk
   Jonathan Casson – head of production
   Gill Phillips – in-house head of legal
   Jan Thompson – managing editor
 
 
   New York Times
   NEW YORK, LONDON
   Max Frankel – former executive editor
   Bill Keller – editor
   Eric Schmitt – war correspondent
   John F Burns – London correspondent
   Ian Fisher – deputy foreign editor
 
 
   Der Spiegel
   HAMBURG, LONDON
   Georg Mascolo – editor-in-chief
   Holger Stark – head of German desk
   Marcel Rosenbach – journalist
   John Goetz – journalist
 
 
   El País
   MADRID, LONDON
   Javier Moreno – editor-in-chief
   Vicente Jiménez – deputy editor
 
 
   Other Media
 
   Raffi Khatchadourian – New Yorker staffer and author of a major profile of Assange
   Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen – Reuters news agency employees accidentally killed by US army pilots in 2007
   David Schlesinger – Reuters’ editor-in-chief
   Kevin Poulsen – former hacker, senior editor at Wired
   Gavin MacFadyen – City University professor and journalist, London host to Assange
   Stephen Grey – freelance reporter
   Iain Overton – former TV journalist, head of Bureau of Investigative Journalism
   Heather Brooke – London-based American journalist and freedom of information activist
 
 
   Bradley Manning
 
   Bradley Manning – 23-year-old US army private and alleged WikiLeaks source
   Rick McCombs – former principal at Crescent high school, Crescent, Oklahoma
   Brian, Susan, Casey Manning – parents and sister
   Tom Dyer – school friend
   Kord Campbell – former manager at Zoto software company
   Jeff Paterson – steering committee member of the Bradley Manning support network
   Adrian Lamo – hacker and online confidant
   Timothy Webster – former US army counter-intelligence special agent
   Tyler Watkins – former boyfriend
   David House – former hacker and supporter