Leaks, Spies & Propaganda Lies, Hacking, Surveillance and Diplomacy in the Digital Era

Question 1

WIKILEAKS

December 2006 - assassination docs

Answer 1

Publishes first doc

Decision to assassinate government officials signed by Somali Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys

Question 2

WIKILEAKS

2007-2009: Standard Operating Procedures for Camp Delta

Answer 2

Protocol of the US Army at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp

Question 3

WIKILEAKS

2007-2009:

list of leaks?

Answer 3

Julius Baer (Swiss bank)

Church of Scientology; Sarah Palin’s emails;

List of BNP members; Barclays docs;

Stuxnet attack against Iran’s facilities in Natanz;

Trafigura leak in the Ivory Coast; 570,000 intercepted pager messages sent on 9/11;

Iceland’s Icesave scandal

Question 4

April 2010: Collateral Murder

Answer 4

Afgan war logs (92,000 docs)

Iraq war logs (400,000 docs)

Question 5

Julian Assange

Answer 5

FOUNDER of WikiLeaks,

Born: 1971
Nationality: Australian

Question 6

Chelsea (Bradley) Manning

Born: 1987

Answer 6

US Army intelligence analyst

Sentenced to 35 years in prison

Released info to Wikileaks

She was convicted in 2013

State Department: Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System (JWICS) database (global funnel for top-secret dispatches)
Pentagon and

Question 7

Hillary Clinton

Wikileaks 2010 speech

Answer 7

Former US Secretary of State

Speech about wikileaks

“a new nervous system for our planet”

not just an attack on America’s foreign policy interests. It is an attack on the international community

1st year: 1.2 million docs
Now: receives 10,000 every day

Question 8

Nick Davies

Answer 8

Investigative reporter (NotW, Flat Earth News)

Established collaboration with Assange (founder of wikileaks)

Question 9

David Leigh

Answer 9

Investigations editor, The Guardian

Led handling of WikiLeaks cables

Question 10

Vaughan Smith

Answer 10

Founder of the Frontline Club

Investigative video journalist

Gave refuge to Julian Assange in 2010 at Ellingham Hall in Suffolk

He supported Assange because he felt that UK media > dominated by PR and press releases

Question 11

The role of the “old” media: gate-keeping and making sense

A rather traditional journalistic operation, albeit using skills of data analysis and visualisation which were unknown in newsrooms until fairly recently (harding)

Answer 11

Step 1: build a search engine that can make sense of the data (262 million words)

Step 2: analysis by foreign correspondents and foreign affairs experts

Step 3: redaction process so as to avoid compromising active national security/intelligence operations or putting sources in danger

Question 12

EDWARD SNOWDEN

Fidel Castro

Answer 12

Worked for the CIA

Leaked info from their computers to Wikileaks

US wanted to revoke his passport (would be arrested if returned)

He was on the run

Fidel Castro said that he would home him in Cuba

Question 13

AL JAZEERA’S SPY CABLES

largely derived from communications between South Africa’s State Security Agency and various agencies

Answer 13

Leaked documents from global intelligence agencies (2006-2014)

• SSA (South Africa)
• Mossad (Israel)
• MI6 (UK)
• CIA (USA)
• FSB (Russia)
• And others from France, Jordan, Oman and the UAE