Ministers, Pastors and Spiritual Leaders

Cc: wmreditor[a t]waynemadsenreport.com,
 funtimesahead[a t]lists.riseup.net
From: Julien Assange <me[a t]iq.org>
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 21:07:48 -0600
To: John Young <jya[a t]pipeline.com>
Subject: [WL] Re: Wikileaks Suspects You

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John, can you xxxx  the reference to "IQ.ORG" in that document near  
"my daughters photo".

7 January 2007

A writes:

Just read the majority of the mailing list conversation and did not understand your, what I thought, sudden shift in direction. I imagine something that did not make its way onto the mailing list conversation prompted you to pull your support and then publish the emails? If so, can you fill us in?

Cryptome:

All the messages received were published. My objections had been building, shown in later messages, after initial support. The finally fed-up turnaround occurred with the publication today of the $5 million dollar by July fund-raising goal -- see messages at the tail-end. I called that -- along with a delay in offering a public discussion and critique forum and failure to provide a credible batch of leaked documents for public scrutiny -- a surefire indication of a scam. This is the exact technique used by snake oilers, pols and spies. Requests to Cryptome to keep stuff quiet are regular fare and they always get published. Next up, the names and affiliations of the perps if they don't reveal themselves in an open forum.

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Dear John,

You knew me under another name from cypherpunk days. I am involved
in a project that you may have feeling for. I will not mention its
name yet incase you feel yu are not able to be involved.

The project is a mass document leaking project that requires someone
with backbone to hold the .org domain registration. We would like
that person to be someone who is not privy to the location of the
master servers which are otherwise obscured by technical means.

We expect the domain to come under the usual political and legal
pressure. The policy for .org requires that registrants details
not be false or misleading. It would be an easy play to cancel the
domain unless someone were willing to stand up and claim to be the
registrant. This person does not need to claim any other knowledge
or involvement.

Will you be that person?

anon1984@fastmail.to

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John Young agreed to do so by encrypted message, undecryptable by JY.

[A decrypted PGP message.] Dear J, The difficulties that confront a conspirator are infinite. many have been the conspiracies, but few have been successful; because he who conspires can not act alone, nor can he take a companion except from those whom he believes malcontent, and as soon as you have opened your mind to a malcontent you have given him the material with which to content himself. --Macchiavelli wikileaks.org, wikileaks.cn, wikileaks.info done Domain Name:WIKILEAKS.ORG (etc) Created On:04-Oct-2006 05:54:19 UTC Last Updated On:04-Oct-2006 06:45:38 UTC Expiration Date:04-Oct-2007 05:54:19 UTC Sponsoring Registrar:Dynadot, LLC (R1266-LROR) Status:TRANSFER PROHIBITED Registrant ID:CP-10335 Registrant Name:John Young c/o Dynadot Privacy Registrant Street1:PO Box 1072 Registrant Street2: Registrant Street3: Registrant City:Belmont Registrant State/Province:CA Registrant Postal Code:94002 Registrant Country:US Registrant Phone:+1.6505851961 Registrant Phone Ext.: Registrant FAX: Registrant FAX Ext.: Registrant Email:privacy@dynadot.com The privacy forwarding service is part of the dynadot.com rego. Many thanks. Far from jya to be content :)

To: jya[a t]pipeline.com From: Subject: Welcome to list xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 23:48:40 -0800 (PST) Welcome to list xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. Your subscription email is jya[a t]pipeline.com Your password : xxxxxxxxxxxxx This list is aimed at increasing water flow through the Santa Lucía River river system. Everything about this list: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

[Names and addresses, headers and redundant messages trimmed by Cryptome.] To: Resent-Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 20:50:32 +1100 From: [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] I think they're almost perfect and your efforts are prob. better spent doing something new, rather than perfecting mr. mole. I'm not sure how easy it is for you to modify. Are you doing all this freehand? Comments from others: germans seem to love the mole! I hadn't realized before and neither do they, but smashing through walls with guard type figures above has special resonance for them! not sure how that effect can be enhanced further, without giving the game away, but it sure is interesting! Comments from an american [I am not making this up!] Nice walrus! Err, ok, nice seal. What's with the strange flippers? Otter? Oh, one of those strange marsupials? platypus? [they eventually got it. how's that for the american education system?] - mole comes from dark into light but white around moles head? perhaps needs shading? - dudes above look like they can see mr mole and might get him, but mr mole can't see them? - are they coming down stairs to get mr mole? - strongly prefer left hourclass wkileaks to hand form on right Comments from me: - mr. mole's attitude is perfect - logos look great, nothing to change. prefer hourglass artistically to hand, but white hands cupping have historically found a lot of traction in people's minds. possible confusion with global warming - icecaps melting, but can't think of anything that can be done about that other than leading with appropriate context, which should work. it's not as if we're sending out random letters in the post. - How about a "logo" sized mole with similar attitude? Be nice to get his lovability onto every page header, for example - As a "backing" organization we're forming something like "centre for open democracy" or some such phrase of eminent and untouchable worth. any suggestions on the phrase? we can re-use one of the logos there, if mole-logo starts to dominate - 2d brickwork, 3d fallen bricks. difficult problem. maybe just cut at the bottom of the wall, since the image is pretty tall anyway? 2d wall, 3d mole is nice stylistically - perhaps some spreading cracks (not too gratuitous) in the brickwork to further suggest mr. moles impact on the rotten foundations of state power? - perhaps top of moles head should overlay brickwork for increased depth? not sure - moles snout might look seal like, though never thought of this till comment by americano. some real moles have amazing star noses. we can't have our mr. mole have one of those, because it will de-humanize him. But iff you can do it without dehumanizing him, some variant, like a powerful glinting conical metal drill nose might be cool - perhaps angle black dudes eyes up a bit? or have them looking at each other? - be interesting to know how "leaks" and "mole" translate to other languages - we probably need fresh eyes now to see things objectively On 20.11.2006, at 18:08, Ani Lovins wrote: > Howdie, cowgirl! > > I take it I am just waiting now for any comments? > Yes, well as you said - both cute and with attitude, the mole shall > be.

From: Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 20:28:09 +1100 To: [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] Begin forwarded message: > From: > Subject: Re: fresh meat > > OK, so here are some further modifications: > > First of all I changed the font on the 2 logos so whatever one you > decide to go with, I think this is better. ( I am guessing you'll > decide amongst yourselves what logo is appropriate) > > As to the mole: I disagree about several things. > > The dark figures are now looking beyond/ above the mole but they > should NOT look at one another, as I want no bonding or feeling of > togetherness about them. > Moles have noses like little hearts (which makes them so cute), whilst > seals dont really have a separate nose (it blends in with the skin). I > tried a quick change with a drill but I don't like it. > Also added a version with a darker mole bckground, but that takes away > from the picture, and I think your eye is no longer drawn to the > center. > Anyway, I will try to shrink the mole into some kind of logo sized > icon over the next few days. Bit busy, cause of Christmas coming up > but shall do my best. > > Hope this is acceptable. > > Battle on! > aï¿¼ï¿¼ Begin forwarded message: From: Subject: Re: fresh meat OK, so here are some further modifications: First of all I changed the font on the 2 logos so whatever one you decide to go with, I think this is better. ( I am guessing you'll decide amongst yourselves what logo is appropriate) As to the mole: I disagree about several things. The dark figures are now looking beyond/ above the mole but they should NOT look at one another, as I want no bonding or feeling of togetherness about them. Moles have noses like little hearts (which makes them so cute), whilst seals dont really have a separate nose (it blends in with the skin). I tried a quick change with a drill but I don't like it. Also added a version with a darker mole bckground, but that takes away from the picture, and I think your eye is no longer drawn to the center. Anyway, I will try to shrink the mole into some kind of logo sized icon over the next few days. Bit busy, cause of Christmas coming up but shall do my best. Hope this is acceptable. Battle on! a[][] [Image]

From: Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 20:28:09 +1100 To: [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] Begin forwarded message: > From: > Subject: Re: fresh meat > > OK, so here are some further modifications: > > First of all I changed the font on the 2 logos so whatever one you > decide to go with, I think this is better. ( I am guessing you'll > decide amongst yourselves what logo is appropriate) > > As to the mole: I disagree about several things. > > The dark figures are now looking beyond/ above the mole but they > should NOT look at one another, as I want no bonding or feeling of > togetherness about them. > Moles have noses like little hearts (which makes them so cute), whilst > seals dont really have a separate nose (it blends in with the skin). I > tried a quick change with a drill but I don't like it. > Also added a version with a darker mole bckground, but that takes away > from the picture, and I think your eye is no longer drawn to the > center. > Anyway, I will try to shrink the mole into some kind of logo sized > icon over the next few days. Bit busy, cause of Christmas coming up > but shall do my best. > > Hope this is acceptable. > > Battle on! > aï¿¼ Begin forwarded message: From: Subject: Re: fresh meat OK, so here are some further modifications: First of all I changed the font on the 2 logos so whatever one you decide to go with, I think this is better. ( I am guessing you'll decide amongst yourselves what logo is appropriate) As to the mole: I disagree about several things. The dark figures are now looking beyond/ above the mole but they should NOT look at one another, as I want no bonding or feeling of togetherness about them. Moles have noses like little hearts (which makes them so cute), whilst seals dont really have a separate nose (it blends in with the skin). I tried a quick change with a drill but I don't like it. Also added a version with a darker mole bckground, but that takes away from the picture, and I think your eye is no longer drawn to the center. Anyway, I will try to shrink the mole into some kind of logo sized icon over the next few days. Bit busy, cause of Christmas coming up but shall do my best. Hope this is acceptable. Battle on! a[] Content-Id: Content-Type: image/jpeg; x-unix-mode=0644; name=Logos new font.jpg Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Logos new font.jpg"

To: From: Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 20:42:37 +1100 This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone. Dear Mr. Ellsberg. We have followed with interest and delight your recent statements on document leaking. We have come to the conclusion that fomenting a world wide movement of mass leaking is the most cost effective political intervention available to us* We believe that injustice is answered by good governance and for there to be good governance there must be open governance. Governance by stealth is governance by conspiracy and fear. Fear, because without it, secrecy does not last for long. Retired generals and diplomats are vociferous, but those in active service hold their tune. Lord Action said, "Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity". This degeneration comes about because when injustice is concealed, including plans for future injustice, it cannot be addressed. When governance is closed, man's eyes become cataracts. When governance is open, man can see and so act to move the world towards a more just state; for instance see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reporters_Without_Borders which shows a striking correlation between press freedom and countries known for their quality of life. us*: some attributes may have been swapped to protect selected identities, no particular order. 1) Retired new york architect and notorious intelligence leak facilitator 2) Euro cryptographer/programmer 3) Pacific physicist and illustrator 4) A pacific author and economic policy lecturer 5) Euro, Ex-Cambridge mathematician/cryptographer/programmer 6) Euro businessman and security specialist/activist 7) Author of software than runs 40% of the world's websites. 8) US pure mathematician with criminal law background 9) An infamous US ex-hacker 10) Pacific cryptographer/physicist and activist 11) US/euro cryptographer and activist/programmer 12) Pacific programmer 13) Pacific architect / foreign policy wonk New technology and cryptographic ideas permit us to not only encourage document leaking, but to facilitate it directly on a mass scale. We intend to place a new star in the political firmament of man. We are building an uncensorizable branch of Wikipedia for leaked documents and the civic institutions & social perceptions necessary to defend and promote it. We have received over 1 million documents from 13 countries, despite not having publicly launched yet! We have approached you now for two reasons. Firstly, we have crossed over from `prospective' to `projective'. The basic technology has been prototyped and we have a view as how we must proceed politically and legally. We need to move and inspire people, gain volunteers, funding, further set up the necessary political-legal defenses and deploy. Since you have thought about leaking more than anyone we know, we would like you on board. We'd like your advice and we'd like you to form part of our political armor. The more armor we have, particularly in the form of men and women sanctified by age, history and class, the more we can act like brazen young men and get away with it. Secondly, we would like to award "The Ellsburg Prize for Courageous Action" and "The Ellsburg Prize for Courageous Action (USA)", for the two leaks submitted in the past year which most assist humanity. The regionalization of the second prize is to encourage patrons of similar awards in other countries. Although it is premature to go into detail, we have designed a scheme were this can be meaningfully awarded to anonymous leakers. We have been pledged substantial initial funding. Please tell us your thoughts. If you are happy, we will add you to our internal mailinglist, contacts, etc. Solidarity! WL.

To: From: Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 22:45:09 +1100 [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] I've registered us to present WL at the World Social Forum in Nairobi Jan 20-25th 2007! There should be 40-70 thousand people attending. Anyone else feel like coming to Africa? At the moment I've only registered us to present on the first day. However, we *can* register upto 5 presentations/workshops/roundtables etc. I've reserved a slot for a 200-300 audience, but it's really quite hard to guess how many people will turn up. There's 1000 other organizations jostling for time, but there are 40-70k people. Many people there must be net savy and even those that aren't can't but help hearing about the wikpedia. Does anyone have suggestions on how to best stagger the presentation types (you'll have examine wsfprocess.net to see what's available). At the moment, my intent is to register a similar sized slot on each day, with a slightly different label, so as to appeal to different character types. The 7th edition of the World Social Forum brings the world to Africa as activists, social movements, networks, coalitions and other progressive forces from Asia-Pacific, Latin America, the Caribbean, North America, Europe and all corners of the African continent converge in Nairobi, Kenya for five days of cultural resistance and celebration. http://www.wsfprocess.net/ You'll need to create an account (easy) at wsfprocess in order to see us.

To: From: Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 16:05:06 -0500 (EST) [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] Thanks for registering on Idealist! To complete the registration process please click in the following link: http://www.idealist.org/if/idealist/en/MyIdealist/UserVerification/activate?email=funtimesahead%40lists.riseup.nettoken=f8bbd3190dd90c4174cc2c7d197d5219 Please remember that the verification link is valid for 7 days. If you have any questions about how to make the most of Idealist, please visit our Help Section at http://www.idealist.org/help Thanks, and all the best! The Idealist.org Team www.idealist.org

From: Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 02:01:30 +1100 To: [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] I may donate XX.ORG [now worth $30k] for the WL civic institution if someone can find a good acronym. Some good words: Quorum, Question, Quest, Quadrant, Quality, Qualification, Quantum, Quotient, Query, InQuiry... Quasimodo [ok, q's are hard] I... Q... [french word order] I, International, Idea, Ideal, Identify, Integrity, Illusion, Image, Imagination, Immortal, Immaterial, Impartial, Interesting, Impassioned, Impending, Imperial, Impetuous, Institute, Important, Impressive, Impunity, Incite, Inclusive, Incorrigible, Incredible, Identical, Infamous, Infinite, Inform, Ingenous, Initiating, Inner, Institute, Insight, Intelligent, Intention, Inter-, InterQuadrant, InterQuarter, Intra-, Intro-, Intri-, Intuitive, Invariant, Innocent, Invective, Investi-, Iconic, Independent, Irony, Island, In- I like: Inter-Quadrant, Inter-Quarter, International Quorum/Question, (center for public) inquiry, Infinite Quest. If there's a great character from history who's name begins with I, one can form something like: Isaac's Question/Quest ("Behold the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb?" (Genesis 22: 7)) Which is lovely, since the open mind yearns to know what the question is as soon it hears the name, and a biblical character may give christian sanctity (the answer to Isaaic is deeply moving. But the source of the pathos is horror. If we were to front as a Ploughshares style movement this might work). Isaiah has many questions, of which 6:10 seems to be the most interesting: Isaiah 6:10-11 "10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they, seeing with their eyes, and hearing with their ears, and understanding with their heart, return, and be healed.'. Then said I: 'Lord, how long?' And He answered: 'Until cities be waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land become utterly waste. Suggestions?

From: Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:44:37 +1100 To: [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] Dear How have you been? How's xxxxxx and xxxxxx? From reading your blog, it seems like the course you are on is sustaining you and people you care about. Other than to catching up, would you like to join the initial advisory board of an organization that's designing and deploying a censorship resistant version of wikipedia (mediawiki) for mass document leaking? More about that later. I want to give you time to think about what it may mean (technically and politically) in the light of John Young's proven ability to withstand censorship of some very important, but smaller scale leaks on Cryptome. 3 FBI meetings, but no raids. What it doesn't mean is lots of your time. I think even your name would be a positive contribution. There's a recent picture of me and my daughter(!) on xxxxxxxxxxx, although the rest is mostly decontexualised. I see you've acquired an interest in motorcycles. Me too. [I liked the following part of my letter to you so much, I took the non personal bits and published them here xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- please excuse the style change!] It seems like everyone I meet plans to follow the young Che Guavara, and take off on their motorbike and adventure through the poverty and pleasurs of South and Central American, now that seduction of random latinos has been politically sanctified -- and who can blame them? Last year I rode my motorcycle from Ho Chi Min City (Saigon) to Hanoi, up the highway that borders the South China Sea. The road to Hanoi is a Vietnamese economic artery but is nonetheless dominated by potholes, thousands the size of bomb craters. There are constant reminders of "The American War" all over Vietnam, and perhaps this was one of them, but in a more indirect way. To a physicist a pothole has an interesting life. It starts out as a few loose stones. As wheels pass over, these stones grind together and against the under surface. Their edges are rounded off and the depression they are in also becomes rounder by their action. The stones become pestles to the hole's motor. Smaller stones and grit move between the spaces of larger stones and add to the grinding action. The hole enlarges, and deepens. Small stones are soon entirely worn away, but in the process liberate increasingly larger stones from the advancing edge of the hole. The increasing depth and surface capture more and more energy from passing wheels. The destruction of the road surface accelerates until the road is abandoned or the hole is filled. Road decay is, like a dental decay, a run away process. Utility rapidly diminishes and costs of repair accelerate, and just like teeth it is more efficient to fill a pothole as soon as it is noticed. But this measure of efficiency is not the metric of politics and it is a political feedback process that lays behind the filling in of potholes on almost every road on earth. That process is driven by the behavior of politically influential road users who are themselves motivated to action by psychologically negative encounters with potholes. When potholes are small, the resultant political pressures are not sufficient to overcome the forces of other interests groups who compete for labour and resources. Likewise, it is difficult to motivate people who have other passions and pains in their life to go to the dentist when their teeth do not ache. Both are caused by limitations in knowledge and its distillation: foresight. Why is this surprising? It is surprising because we are used to looking at government spending through the lens of economic utility; a lens which claims the political process as a derivative. This vision claims that political forces compete for access to the treasury to further their own utility. Hence, military intelligence and public health compete with road maintenance for funding and so should attempt to minimize the latter's drain on the treasury. But that drain is minimized by filling in potholes immediately! Foresight requires trustworthy information about the current state of the world, cognitive ability to draw predictive inferences and economic stability to give them a meaningful home. It's not only in Vietnam where secrecy, malfeasance and unequal access have eaten into the first requirement of foresight ("truth and lots of it"). Foresight can produce outcomes that leave all major interests groups better off. Likewise the lack of it, or doing the dumb thing, can harm almost everyone. Computer scientists have long had a great phrase for the dependency of foresight on trustworthy information; "garbage in, garbage out". In intelligence agency oversight we have "The Black Budget blues", but the phrase is probably most familiar to us as "The Fox News Effect". of the world, cognitive ability to draw predictive inferences and economic stability to give them a meaningful home. It's not only in Vietnam where secrecy, malfeasance and unequal access have eaten into the first requirement of foresight ("truth and lots of it"). Foresight can produce outcomes that leave all major interests groups better off. Likewise the lack of it, or doing the dumb thing, can harm almost everyone. Computer scientists have long had a great phrase for the dependency of foresight on trustworthy information; "garbage in, garbage out". In intelligence agency oversight we have "The Black Budget blues", but the phrase is probably most familiar to us as "The Fox News Effect". But back in the west and a land of cars, I noted that I knew only 10 people who had died; two murders, one suicide and six dead or severely brain damaged in motorcycle accidents. None from old age, which reflects my clans' longevity and wanderlust on one hand and fractiousness on the other. I stopped riding in the land of cars. Cheers,

From: Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:31:08 +1100 To: [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] xxxxxxx says yes! I wonder if that letter to Ellsberg has been routed to somewhere other than the spam bucket. Can someone step forward to chase down his postal address? Perhaps one of our bay area people? Any other suggestions? xxxxxx noted that Psyphon [poorly chosen name!], a sort of poor mans tor/i2p lulled Soros and a bunch of others into giving them US$3,000,000 for development. As some of you may know we were recently leaked the entire Davos (World Economic Forum) attendees contacts list, which has Soros, Sergi-Brin, any many others on it. Presumably one of the reasons Psyphon was able to get these $ was its affilication with some Canadian uni -- makes donors feel safe. We have some people with affiliations, but that's not quite the same thing.

From: To: Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 05:17:33 -0600 [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] A simple googlestalking operation reveals his address to be: 90 Norwood Avenue Kensington CA 94707 USA

From: To: Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 22:55:25 -0800 [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] WL cryptographic certificate. Valid for two years. Note that this is for the top level domain only. Wild card certificats (*.wl.org) necessary to handle language groups as per wikipedia.org e.g en.wikipedia.org, de.wikepedia.org etc are quite expensive. Since we haven't even started on language regionalization yet, we'll leave that to later. CECERT will issue these certs for free, but it's not recognised in browsers yet. cecert certs will *probably* find their way into browsers in the next six months. John Young's address in NY given as the rego address. Hope you're still feeling brave, John :) -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- [Deleted by Cryptome.] -- WikiLeaks.Org anon1984[a t]fastmail.to -- http://www.fastmail.fm - I mean, what is it about a decent email service?

From: To: Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 23:00:22 -0800 [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] Hi xxxxxx, We haven't publically launched yet. WL has developed and integrated technology to foment untracable, unstoppable mass document leaking and discussion. Our primary targets are those highly oppressive regimes in china, russia and central eurasia, but we also expect to be of assistance to those in the west who wish to reveal illegal or immoral behavior in their own governments and corporations. We aim for maximum political impact; this means our technology is fast and usable by non-technical people. We have received over a million documents of varying quality. We plan to numerically eclipse the content the english wikipedia with leaked documents. We believe that the increasing familiarity with wikipedia.org provides a comfortable transition to those who wish to leak documents and comment on leaked documents. We feel that per hour spent this provides the greatest positive impact on the world and ourselves that is within our means to achieve. [...] PS. We can always use additional assistance, any ideas, let us know. We are also looking for stable and trustworthy document drop-offs in different countries. There are two types of drop-offs: 1) deniable 2) regular A deniable drop off will receive a leaked CD/DVD/thumbdrive with encrypted information to which they do not have the key. Their job is to simply upload this to WL. Since at no time do they have access to the information they can not later be held to be knowingly concerned with its contents. A regular drop off is willing to receive and upload both deniable media, regular digital media and printed documents. In the case of printed documents, they are expected to scan/ocr the documents or if there prove to be too many, forward some on to a regular drop off. Is riseup interested in being the location of one of the US drop-offs? We have one in NY, one in CA. Seattle and washington would probably make a full US complement. -- WikiLeaks.Org anon1984[a t]fastmail.to -- http://www.fastmail.fm - And now for something completely different…

To: From: Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 05:27:40 +1100 [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] idealist.org is a volunteering intermediary. quite good -- does anyone feel like combing them for assistants? Thank you for getting back to me. Your application has been approved and is now active. You may access it by logging in at http://www.idealist.org. Email: Password: On your Control Panel, you will see a link to your organization, Instructions on managing your account may be found at http://www.idealist.org/if/idealist/en/FAQ/QuestionViewer/default?category-eid=208-271&eid=655-219. If you wish to provide access to this account, either fully or partially, to other staff in your organization, please follow the instructions at http://www.idealist.org/if/idealist/en/FAQ/QuestionViewer/default?category-eid=210-74&eid=656-252 Best, Chelsea Idealist User Support Staff Action Without Borders http://www.idealist.org

Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 01:34:26 -0500 To: From: Michael Ellsberg <ellsbergpress[a t]gmail.com> [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] Subscription Confirmation Before we add you to our mailing list, we would like to confirm your subscription. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Your subscription will be activated immediately upon clicking the above link. This double opt-in method ensures that all subscribers on our list do indeed want to receive our newsletters and that no one can add your email address to a list without your consent. Thank you for your assistance! This message was sent from Michael Ellsberg to xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. It was sent from: Michael Ellsberg, 90 Norwood Ave., Kensington, CA 94707. You can modify/update your subscription via the link below.

From: Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 17:43:24 +1100 To: [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] xxxxxxxx, I notice ellsberg also uses ellsbergd[a t]cs.com [compuserve]

From: Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 18:07:01 +1100 To: [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] xxxxxxxxxx, xxxxxxxxxx [Telephone number deleted by Cryptome.]

From: Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 18:44:10 +1100 To: [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] xxxxxx/xxx 'uncensorizable' should probably be 'uncensorable'.

From: Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 19:05:34 +1100 To: [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] I've sent a version of xxxxxxxxxx's Ellsberg letter to John Gilmore. Begin forwarded message: > From: > Date: 16 December 2006 19:00:14 GMT+11:00 > To: gnu[a t]eff.org, gnu[a t]toad.com > Subject: document leaking > > Dear J, > > Are you interested in helping us build/support/get support for > this: www.wikileaks.org > > We have come to the conclusion that fomenting a world wide movement of > mass leaking is the most cost effective political intervention > available to us*. We believe that injustice is answered by good > governance and for there to be good governance there must be open > governance. Governance by stealth is governance by conspiracy and > fear. Fear, because without it, secrecy does not last for long. > Retired generals and diplomats are vociferous, but those in active > service hold their tune. > > Lord Action said, "Everything secret degenerates, even the > administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it > can bear discussion and publicity". > > This degeneration comes about because when injustice is concealed, > including plans for future injustice, it cannot be addressed. When > governance is closed, man's eyes become cataracts. When governance is > open, man can see and so act to move the world towards a more just > state; for instance see > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reporters_Without_Borders which shows a > striking correlation between press freedom and countries known for > their quality of life. > > us*: some attributes may have been swapped to protect selected > identities, > no particular order. > > 1) Retired new york architect and notorious intelligence leak > facilitator > 2) Euro cryptographer/programmer > 3) Pacific physicist and illustrator > 4) A pacific author and economic policy lecturer > 5) Euro, Ex-Cambridge mathematician/cryptographer/programmer > 6) Euro businessman and security specialist/activist > 7) Author of software than runs 40% of the world's websites. > 8) US pure mathematician with criminal law background > 9) An infamous US ex-hacker > 10) Pacific cryptographer/physicist and activist > 11) US/euro cryptographer and activist/programmer > 12) Pacific programmer > 13) Pacific architect / foreign policy wonk > > New technology and cryptographic ideas permit us to not only encourage > document leaking, but to facilitate it directly on a mass scale. We > intend to place a new star in the political firmament of man. > > We are building an uncensorable branch of Wikipedia for leaked > documents and the civic institutions & social perceptions necessary to > defend and promote it. We have received over 1 million documents from > 13 countries, despite not having publicly launched yet! > > We have approached you now for two reasons. > > Firstly, we have crossed over from `prospective' to `projective'. The > basic technology has been prototyped and we have a view as how we must > proceed politically and legally. We need to move and inspire people, > gain volunteers, funding, further set up the necessary political-legal > defenses and deploy. Since you have created more successful > technical-political > projects than anyone else we know of in the US, we would like you > on board. We'd like > your advice and we'd like you to form part of our political armor. > The more armor we > have, particularly in the form of men and women sanctified by age, > history and class, the more we can act like brazen young men and get > away with it. > > We state here our clear, bold goal. We will provide a catalyst > which will > bring down government through stealth everywhere, not least that of > the Bushists. > > What do you say? >

From: To: Date: [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] Just ran into this guy at bar camp. http://www.rumor-mill.org/ dzetland[a t]gmail.com -- xxxxxxxx

From: Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:21:22 +1100 To: [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] Well, other than the V theme, what's the low down xxxxxxxxx? ppt is causing me grief. On 18.12.2006, at 08:02, xxxxxxxxx wrote: http://www.rumor-mill.org

From: Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 19:35:54 +1100 To: [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] This is great. I hang my head in shame for ever thinking you were not going to write it. I have to go out, but I wanted to give you my (literally!) 5 minute take so you have something to work with. I have only skimmed the document. The time of year has some implications for political publishing i.e it has to be quite soon or we need to wait till, say 3rd of jan when there's a trade off between types of activity [long articles may be better received in the holidays once social events are over]. As usual with most people who write, the evenness of your tone and style, and consequent readability improves as the document goes along. but the first few paragraphs are the most important because people won't read the rest unless they get hooked by them. so that's what I'll comment on. Keep in mind that my comments may be irrelevant since I have only read a small part. 1. remove most obscure acronyms from the first few paragraphs and try to reduce them using grammar in the subsequent few. maths people are good at holding definitions, others not so, but for both types linear reading is required; this can't be assumed on the internet. I *know* you don't want to use 'government' since it grants a right to authority which frequently does not exist. 2. place some questions and violent acts into the readers mind quickly so that they want to resolve them. Leak reads like a script for what happened -- good plan or good post-facto forgery? Some readers are interested in that country. but many in China. Why was it being passed off to C in Oct (broaden political relevance, add chrono relevance)? Arms? C oil company (many interested in oil)? six killed in Sept assassination attempt on pres -- any connection? (make violence / chrono relevant). Forged? It seems likely that this document is legitimate, but we don't have to tell the reader that straight away, and notice that the 3rd jpg has been edited. If forged, why, and why pass it off now (Oct)? Probably worth putting in a call to what remains of the somali govt and asking where they got it [do they claim leaked, or seized in military operation?]. Do we not want to reveal that the S government has it? I think to be true to the truth we have to. So why haven't they told the world? Have they? Why hasn't the world followed up? Did no one have time to understand it/somalia (quite possible)? Or did no one trust that it wasn't faked? Faking it seems a bit long temr and esoteric for the somalis govt, who fighting for their immediate survival, but assume it is a fake, then who's the master? CIA? But that's it's influence on the US seems to be where it would be the most useful. But not now. A year ago; so why is it being passed off now? Who's "Captain WELI", the translator? We assume someone in the somali military, not loyal to UIT.

From: Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:50:40 +1100 To: [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] just noticed the amazing events that are happening on the ground. is that hitting the news wires? -- if so we must act quickly. most importantly we must verify the integrity of that translation. first quote I've found was $300 for 1,000 words. cruising some irc channels that operate in that language may suffice. anyone have somali friends? in particular we can't make claims about words like 'criminal' without knowing the translation has integrity. i *assume* it has general integrity since that' s something that's easy to check, but there's always give for word bias in translation other notes: emotive language (including amplifiers, like 'massive') that maybe justified, but not justified immediately preceeding text should go. The strongest position is say "murderous" when the facts provide carte blanche and otherwise keep quiet. 'we' should be 'I', unless you're referring to yourself and the reader 'we can see that'. Even then it's better style to avoid those constructs (seductively easy way of roping the reader into your argument, I know). give colorful bio of the author early -- easy to do, if you've looked at his wiki page -- there he is, flame on his chin, holy book in his hand and anti-aircraft cannon between his legs. this story is more powerful in a publishing venue which takes photos. those scanned jpgs, together with recent news and a photo of the author are a powerful combination!

From: Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 23:43:53 +1100 To: [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] Something worth noting about the unusual relative power of community building islamist movements when operating against well funded US led democracy wagons; the promise of better shopping does not move the heart to great acts of love or sacrifice. "Democracy" is a difficult abstraction that is easily abused (try drawing it). It is a means, not an end. There's no instinct or desire for democracy. Consider the US Declaration of Independence (1776), a document which is the distillation of psychological forces that drove men to civil war and kept them there. What are those forces? ...God.. Creator.. Men are created equal... Life, Liberty,... pursuit of Happiness.. Safety and Happiness... [followed by 26(!) paragraphs of hatred for the abuses of King George]. In other words, religious feeling (x2), equality, life, liberty, happiness (x2), safety and above all, an extreme hatred for the brutal acts, preferment, and corruption of foreign influenced or controlled government. Not once does "democracy" or "shopping" appear. Doesn't bode well for the Iraqi provisional authority -- at least the British spoke the same language.

From: Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 01:32:09 +1100 To: [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] http://www.epochtimes.com/gb/6/2/1/n1208580.htm

From: Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 04:57:37 +1100 To: [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] [xxxxxxxxxxx has an message size limit of 300k, my earlier post didn't go through, so I've split it up into three parts] Given the recent dramatic turn of events in somalia, we have decided to rush forward with the first ``Bourbaki'' article based on a Somali diplomatic government leak (seized document?) handed over to the chinese in mid October (and then submitted to us). Nobody, amazingly writing it in under a day. [] http://cryptome.org/wikileaks/som.zip

From: Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 08:46:25 +1100 To: [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] Hi all, Can everyone on this list who has functional access to PGP [ i.e will not cause days of delay to encrypt/decrypt a message] please send their public keys to this list? I'd like to keep our discussions on the path of least resistance and this this generally means, open and transparent, but there some matters we need to address soon where openness is better enabled through secrecy; we owe our sources, even through we keep no logs or other information that might identify them, to exercise mindful diligence (not paranoia) in response to their courage. We're on an exponential; we have no forces working against us yet, but there will many in a few months and these early discussions may take on an unexpected poignancy. xxxxxxxxxxxx.

From: To: Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:42:22 +1100 Subject: [WL] somali bourbaki article [.doc] [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] [xxxxxxxxxxx has an message size limit of 300k, my earlier post didn't go through, so I've split it up into three parts] [] http://cryptome.org/wikileaks/inside_somalia.doc

To: From: Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:43:01 +1100 [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] [] http://cryptome.org/wikileaks/inside_somalia.pdf

Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 06:26:14 -0800 To: From: John Young <jya[a t]pipeline.com> [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] It would be prudent to attempt to verify that the Somali document is not a forgery. The last threat about shooting anybody who reveals the document smells like a smear of the author. The spooks forge such documents as a matter of regular tradecraft, and leaks of them are frequently through an alleged third party. The more the reputation of a target would be damaged by a "leak," greater the likelihood of a forgery. Verification, or the best that can done close to it, is probably a basic requirement of this list. Or a disclaimer that no verification has been done. It should not be long before deliberate leaks start to appear here, as they do around nearly all means of distributing information. Contaminating these means is the nature of those who prowl for ways to insert lies and duplicity into the search for truth and reliability. This is not to suggest leaks are not to be trusted, just not blindly so, for they are now standard tools for lying, smearing and stinging by governments, corporations, persons of all demonics.

From: Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 06:58:25 +1100 To: [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] The situation in Somalia is still very tense. Political map to understand what follows: http://upload.wikimedia.org/ wikipedia/commons/9/99/Somali_land_2006_12_02.png The authenticity of the Islamic Courts' document is difficult and extremely interesting. There are strong arguments in both directions and it is conceivable that the middle position of a document that's slightly altered is also correct. If this document is what it claims to be, the chance of ICU verification seems remote. Like many conjectures it is falsifyable, but not provable. Further, there doesn't seem to be a direct way to contact the ICU. Contact (for me) would require hopping through Somali refugee relationships. Looking instead to falsify the translation, I presented the first half page to a Somali reader (from Somaliland), but as soon as they saw "secret decision of islamic court", their heart grew fearful and their hand's restless enough to return it. Looking at motivation: There are only two items in the document damaging to the Islamic Courts Union, of these, only the first is substantive. The ICU denies expansionist ambitions on the north of Somlia (Puntland and Somaliland) -- though these ambitions are now clear to everyone, back before the ICU took Mogadishu, the perception was different. Putland claims to be an autonomous region, while Somaliland [http:// www.somaliland.gov/], declared independence (unrecognised) in 1991 and subsequently mandated by referendum in 2001. The UN/US/Ethiopian backed government -- the Transitional National Assembly (TNA), is opposed to Somaliland, despite its success as an independent Kurdish- style democracy over 15 years. Somalia's new transitional government is staunchly opposed to the referendum. Its acting prime minister, Osman Jama Ali, described it on Wednesday as "a ploy to divide Somalia by the help of unfriendly foreign countries and opportunist individuals". [http:// news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1361394.st] We can see what must of been the threat structure last year, prior to the ICU capturing the capital [in order, merging Ethopia into the TNA] TNA: ICU, Somaliland, Puntland ICU: TNA, Puntland Somaliland: TNA, Puntland Putland: TNA, ICU, Somaliland So Somalia land and the ICU are natural allies and the ICU and Puntland are uneasy truce partners. That's essentially how things were last year. Since the ICU captured the capital, Mogadishu, perceptions and relationships have shifted: TNA: ICU, omaliland, Puntland ICU: TNA, Puntland, Somaliland Somalialand: ICU, TNA, Puntland Puntland: ICU, TNA, Somaliland The document claims the imprimatur "Islamic Republic of Somalia". The ICU never publically refers to itself using these words and nor does the press -- to do so would be to STAKE AN ISLAMIST CLAIM ON ALL OF SOMALIA, including Puntland and Somalialand. There are 4 pages of google references to "Islamic Republic of Somalia" (the Somali translation is a google whack), and most are of this form (June 2006): "The former head of the JIC, Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, will be the chairman of the council's executive committee, which will be in charge of day-to-day running of the Islamic courts," an Islamist official said. "This is one step short of calling for the official establishment of the Islamic Republic of Somalia," said Ahmed Hassan, a Somali democracy advocate. [http://mwcnews.net/content/view/ 7835/207/] Or this, also from June 2006: From the ashes will rise the Islamic Republic of Somalia modeled much like Iran where we are in a developing highly intelligent nation ran by Islamic Law. [http://www.esai.org/myESAi/viewtopic.php? t=8964&sid=cd700d7cd0909f210b92841ab3dab9c3] Behold the hidden darwiish of espionage -- not the content, it's the imprimatur itself. When we look at the remaining references to "Islamic Republic of Somalia", we hear half whispers; users registering themselves, claiming to be from that invisible republic: [http:// www.somalilife.com/member-viewprofile-36588.html] and the occasional Somali refugee using it informally to refer to UIC controlled areas. But examine this quote from July, not picked up by other wire services. Is it a slip of Aweys' tongue or the reporter's pen? The local Shabelle media group quoted on Monday the Islamists' hardline leader, Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, as saying bin Laden's comments had "nothing to do" with his movement. "It's nothing more than a friendly call because Osama shares the pain with the Islamic republic of Somalia," he added. [http://www.hananews.org/ WholeArticle.asp?artId=6158] The most we can say is that the imprimatur, however it got to be that way, is sufficient motivation for TNA to spread it around. ---- Now lets look at John Young's smeary "Care has to be maintained all along to avoid leaking of this information. Whosoever leaks this information and is found guilty should be shot.". It enters the mind like a scripted dramatic effect. But our supposed author, Aweys, is all about dramatic effect and dramatic affect! His other statements often carry this flourish. Now consider the last four words; "and is found guilty" -- an unusual thing for a forger who wished to discredit Aweys to say, but something Aweys, not as a general, but as a judge and scholar of islamic law, would find comfortable. ---- Forensic attack. I had assumed that the English translation was produced by the TNA. Looking at the binary strings in the English ".doc" translation (word users can try "show document info"), we see: ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF SOMALIA Captain Weli Normal Microsoft Office Word Department of State Microsoft Office Word MSWordDoc Word.Document.8 The salient features are "Islamic Republic of Somalia", "Captain Weli" and "Department of State". "Department of State" is cartoonish, but all over the world, the powerless ape the powerful. Yet some Word meta-information is easier to change than others -- was the version of Word use to prepare this document licensed to a different DEPARTMENT OF STATE? Would the UIC bother filling out organization fields on its Windows installations? Was another country's Department of State careless in its forgery? The US supports the TNA. It's difficult to imagine the TNA, which is fighting for its very existence, producing such a forgery entirely on their own. The translation, together with the jpg, was deliberately passed onto the Chinese at diplomatic level in mid October, BY THE TNA. If the document is not a forgery, the TNA must have been leaked or captured the paper document or the jpegs AND an English translation by the UIC (in electronic form) or... THE LEAKER IS THE TRANSLATOR IS CAPTAIN WELI. It is possible that both documents were flowing through the UIC electronically. Only 7.6 million, or about 50% of Somalia speaks the Somali language. In the south, where the UIC draws its support, there are a number of other language groupings [http://www.ethnologue.com/ show_country.asp?name=SO] the most popular of which is Maay [approx. 1 million speakers]. Is English used as the second language for orders flowing through the UIC from Aweys? Islamic Judges can read Arabic. Why wasn't the translation into Arabic? Or was it translated into a number of languages in the style of the European parliament? Are UIC regions networked enough for electronic distribution of Aweys orders? If the Aweys leak is a forgery, then taking the extra effort to make the electronic translation to English appear to originate with the UIC is an act of the highest perceptual idiocy or very creative reverse psychology. Both nice phrases and both in full flower down Langley way.

Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 21:12:20 -0800 To: From: John Young <jya[a t]pipeline.com> [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] This is a good analysis and suggests how to respond to doubts about a document, or for that matter, for a document for which there are no immediate doubts but probably should be questioned as a good practice for a leak-promoting source like this: skepticism as a premise of providing leaked documents. The MSM all too often substitute a prefabricated authority for skepticism of what it publishes. Whereas scholarly work, the best of it, presents counterarguments as part of a presentation, on the assumption that discourse is superior to pontification, or worse, infalliability. Leaks should be doubted and doubts answered by leakers or those who distribute the leakables. An iron-clad leak is a phony or a lie. It does require more work to perform an exegesis of a leaked document weighing the pros and cons, but that is what it takes to avoid the trap of vainglorious pride in being a leaker and the subsequent lure of leaking crap to remain in the spotlight -- the politician's disease. Or the other trap is pretending authority where it is not deserved, indeed, where reputation and reliability are marketed as come-ons, thus the celebrated MSM and its bastard children, the nameish blogs seen as sidebars to other nameish blogs, self-referencing one another into triviality. The spooks treat forging and forgeries as high art, producing and challenging, some claim there is no higher purpose of the spies than to masterfully forge and to undo a master forgery. Takes one to know one. The same is true of leakers: there is hardly a better means to get a false and/or true story into the public domain, or better, into the most secret caverns of suspicious noggins like that of James Jesus Angleton and his ilk among the Soviets, Israelis, Brits, and so on. Spooks practice this on each other, in training and in practice. The saying is that analysts rule for their unquenchable disbelief, and nothing that goes up the chain of command without powerful dissent is believable, so biased are promoters that they are unable to tell the full story, that is, preach. Thanks for moving in the rightly dubitable direction.

From: Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 23:15:45 +1100 To: [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

To: From: Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 13:32:45 +1100 [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] A bit of affectionate rototilling: 1. slickify occasional wording, especially in the first few pages 2. following Skunk, cut words etc for size and style 3. cut/town down what could be painted as left wing bias using rhetorical tricks"It is" -> "Critics say" etc 4. tone down criticisms over shooting leakers. Shooting people who leak war cabinet documents is normal. Even the rosenbergs got it in the neck in peace time. If it's fake it's there to encourage distribution via the dramatic violation of spreading the damn thing, which btw, is working a treat. let me know if you disagree with this. 5. tone down some implicit value judgements which I suspect are actually cultural assumptions. 6. delete some things which I thought were true, but did not represent it statistically, since some things when mentioned are "instant moral death sentences" to the reader. e.g as soon as you know a man's sheets have seen goat fur, even if it was 20 years ago, this will be the lens through which you see his every action 7. fix up a problem with the document analysis ("Islamic Republic of Somalia") 8. add explicit WL reference. Feels nice. A perhaps too long in the middle, but the writing is strong and I couldn't see any easy place to cut it. I'm sure I've dropped some words as seems to be my habbit. Anyone see them? Not changed, but needs to be: Today/yesterday/recently/this week etc references have to go. We can only ref "Tuesday" etc if we know it's going to be published that same week, but "Today/Yesterday", is very unlikely without prior arrangement. Also relative dates make updating / republishing painful. Last some parts [esp, last] need updating to reflect the Ethiopian air attacks. While final paragraphs are not as important as initial paragraphs, they rank#2. Haven't done much with these as I assume xxxxxx will update. Otherwise it's ready to roll! Hope you're happy with that xxxxxxxxxxxxx.

To: From: Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 13:33:21 +1100 [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] [] http://cryptome.org/wikileaks/inside_somalia_v3.doc

Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 22:04:09 -0800 To: From: John Young <jya[a t]pipeline.com> [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] Quite an excellent report, much superior to what appears in the MSM. More thoughtful about the first and continuing casualties of war, diplomacy and commercial journalism: the truth about and critical examination of information sources. Where, when and how is it to be made public along with the original document? While perhaps implicit, there could be an invitation for critical comment by readers to continue the discourse. And if so, to what or whom are comments to be sent?

From: Subject: Re: [WL] new somali article(v3) more on Bourbaki Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 18:55:06 +1100 To: John Young <jya[a t]pipeline.com> John, you set an example to us humble rabble and lift our spirits with your gentile tidings. Keep up our hopes, our e-spirit de corpuscular; draw forth our anger, our courage -- and our fire -- to lick at the damp paper of uncivilization until it catches and our hearts are warmed by the conflagration of basement mendacities the world over. Let our smiles be woken by flowers of openness pushing through the ash from below. We are compelled to act, as we are best able, for a man who witnesses injustice but does not act, becomes a party to a cascade of injustice, via the iterative diminution and pacification of his character. It is our plan to foment political and financial support for WL. To do that we need a commanding voice. Everywhere we see professional sayers and professional knowers, but the demands of each mean little intersection and the world finds itself with brainless words and wordless brains. By uniting a handful of knowers together in harmony we can project our voice without devoting our minds to the preferments and petty intrigues of moguls. We have the collective sources, personalities and learning to be, or rather, appear to be, the reclusive ubermench of the 4th estate. We will take the non-linear blessing such a position affords and apply it to our great task of DIY universal open governance. Our rules follow that of the French Bourbaki who through their allonym set the mathematical world to right in the first half of the 20th C with internal agreement by exhaustion and the purification inherit in non-attribution of ego. Ben likes to quotes Woodruff thus "There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." For the Somali document I am not sure of the venue. I've had a couple of things published in Counterpunch recently, so have an in with Cockburn and the content and style is an easy fit. Suelette and I have had junk published in the London Independent, Age, SMH, Australian etc, but this article is a bone too big for the dailies to chew, and although it might be happy with fragments, my feeling is it will pick them from the Counterpunch midden without our efforts. My only hesitation vis-a-vis Counterpunch is the readership, which though large, tends to pal up on one pew and sometimes even sings and claps. We're open to other venue suggestions, and very happy to take edits, since your are still a great stylist. When WL is deployed, feedback will be, like Wikipedia, an act of creation and correction; the Aweys document and those like it will eventually face one hundred thousand incensed Somali refugees, blade and keyboard in hand, cutting, cutting, cutting apart its pages until all is dancing confetti and the truth. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. On 25 Dec 2006, at 17:04, John Young wrote: > Quite an excellent report, much superior to what appears in the > MSM. More > thoughtful about the first and continuing casualties of war, > diplomacy and > commercial journalism: the truth about and critical examination of > information > sources. > > Where, when and how is it to be made public along with the original > document? > > While perhaps implicit, there could be an invitation for critical > comment by > readers to continue the discourse. And if so, to what or whom are > comments > to be sent?

From: To: Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 08:24:05 -0600 [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] Your edits are great. Good to get more than one set of hands on the document, to maximise rhetorical and stylistic flourishes. With regard to the document analysis, I take it you discovered the same thing I did: the "Islamic Republic of Somalia" is the *title* of the document, not its location, and word automatically titles the document by its first line. Need to adjust for this. Venues: In addition to counterpunch, the following crossed my mind, though I haven't really thought them through. The Nation? Monthly Review? ZNet? Of these, the first two would be great to get into, and ZNet might be good regardless of where else we go... their massive and useful database of essays would be great to be in, and a contribution to understanding amongst the community there. The longer we leave it, the more updating we have to do, so I propose getting it out sooner rather than later. Remaining edits: I'll see what I can do. If somebody else can get in and do them first, go right ahead. There's not much to do now.

From: Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 02:28:36 +1100 To: [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] > With regard to the document analysis, I take it you discovered the same thing I > did: the "Islamic Republic of Somalia" is the *title* of the document, not its location, and word automatically titles the document by its first line. Need to >adjust for this. No! I don't use Word. This very important observation of yours naturalizes the translation provenance and a couple of my edits need be reversed in light of it. Eg I XXXX'd out Weli's name just in case he was the leaker, but now we can reveal it. It also makes the "State Department" label more interesting and confirms that the TFG's angle on the document is what we thought i.e focus on the appellation. The US and others are paranoid about Iranification so we can see the motivation for spreading it outside Somalia. I think this slightly increases the chance that its a forgery, as the reverse psychology needed to have the UIC undertaking the english translation was too clever by half. We can now cut out the discussion as to the translation origin. Venues: In addition to counterpunch, the following crossed my mind, though I haven't really thought them through. The Nation? Monthly Review? ZNet? Of these, the first two would be great to get into, and ZNet might be good regardless of where else we go... their massive and useful database of essays would be great to be in, and a contribution to understanding amongst the community there. The monthlies tend to have long lead times which may not suit us, but they're worth hitting. Does anyone have contacts there? We need a mini bio (pick truths from all of us) for bourbaki and a less obvious name though "Jack Bourbaki" sure is kind to the tongue. I have a washington voice mail service I'll set up with the identity.

Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 11:57:05 -0800 To: From: John Young <jya[a t]pipeline.com> [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] Has the Word doc been subjected to the program which reveals hidden revisions and their authors? I don't have it but Richard Smith says he's written a program to show the concealed revisions: http://www.computerbytesman.com/privacy/blair.htm The original PDF might also reveal hidden information with a bit of probing. Recall that NSA and others now warn about sanitizing Word to PDF conversions: http://www.nsa.gov/snac/vtechrep/I333-TR-015R-2005.PDF Beware of attributions like Department of State, they regularly pop up along with TLA nyms. Even idiotic spammers use them. None of this should hold up publication for that will set in motion a slew of tests from a wide variety of skeptics eager to debunk. The first debunkers will probably be the media approached to lend credibility and provide exposure. They, rather their lawyers, are ever eager to avoid liability and, worse, loss of reputation marketability. The fret a lot about being stung by "leaks," black and white. The analysis could bring them around, but it also conveys suspicion of authenticity. Too much caution, though, sharply limits what gets published. This forum got to face the fact it will be treated with caution until a strong bonafide is established, maybe requiring a ride on the back of a gold plated reputation, but that's might hard to come by. Still, all the gold-plates once were once fools gold and rejected by the old reputables, then wham, a supernova of expose brought an invite into the comfy club. Most exposers never make it, and most leakers don't get the attention they have dreamed of. I think the Net offers opportunities the MSM just won't provide until the gauntlet is run.

From: Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 16:44:15 +1100 To: [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] The additional metadata: $ catdoc -v Translation_of_Aweis_Letter_1_.doc File Info block version 193 Found at file offset 128 (hex 80) Written by product version 24689 Language 1033 This is document (DOC) file File uses extended character set File created on Windows Using default character set Textstart = 1536 (hex 600) Textlen = 5908 (hex 1714) No surprises there. Language 1033 is english. Can't seem to find a ref to product version 24689. Might be interesting if that was US govt or African (font reasons) MS issue. $ wvSummary Translation_of_Aweis_Letter_1_.doc Metadata for Translation_of_Aweis_Letter_1_.doc: Editing Duration = 2009-04-22T19:33:48Z msole:codepage = 936 Generator = "Microsoft Office Word" Last Modified = 2006-10-03T18:50:00Z Creator = "Captain Weli" Revision = "2" Number of Pages = 1 Number of Words = 782 Title = "ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF SOMALIA" Created = 2006-10-03T18:50:00Z Subject = "" Template = "Normal" Keywords = "" Description = "" Number of Characters = 4462 Security Level = 4462 Last Saved by = "hi" msole:codepage = 936 Number of Lines = 37 Number of Paragraphs = 10 Unknown1 = 5234 Company = "Department of State" Scale = FALSE Links Dirty = FALSE Unknown3 = FALSE Unknown6 = FALSE Unknown7 = 726502 Salient points here; The last modification date is Oct 03, though it is the second save. This is only Creation date == last modified. I'm not sure what that implies; perhaps the document was copied to another computer for the second edit. Can't find an easy ref to security level 4462. The account name, 'hi' almost seems intended for us! Timeline: Sep 18 Attempted Assassination of President Abdullahi Yusuf in Baidoa. Brother and 5 guard killed. Oct 03 Final edits to Aweys english translation Oct 14ish Document sent to Chinese Nov 02 President Yusef Arrives in Beijing Nov 04 Forty eight African countries that have diplomatic relations with China participate in a two-day summit.

Subject: metadata dump for somali .doc and timeline analysis [chinese motivation] Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 16:44:15 +1100 To: The additional metadata: $ catdoc -v Translation_of_Aweis_Letter_1_.doc File Info block version 193 Found at file offset 128 (hex 80) Written by product version 24689 Language 1033 This is document (DOC) file File uses extended character set File created on Windows Using default character set Textstart = 1536 (hex 600) Textlen = 5908 (hex 1714) No surprises there. Language 1033 is english. Can't seem to find a ref to product version 24689. Might be interesting if that was US govt or African (font reasons) MS issue. $ wvSummary Translation_of_Aweis_Letter_1_.doc Metadata for Translation_of_Aweis_Letter_1_.doc: Editing Duration = 2009-04-22T19:33:48Z msole:codepage = 936 Generator = "Microsoft Office Word" Last Modified = 2006-10-03T18:50:00Z Creator = "Captain Weli" Revision = "2" Number of Pages = 1 Number of Words = 782 Title = "ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF SOMALIA" Created = 2006-10-03T18:50:00Z Subject = "" Template = "Normal" Keywords = "" Description = "" Number of Characters = 4462 Security Level = 4462 Last Saved by = "hi" msole:codepage = 936 Number of Lines = 37 Number of Paragraphs = 10 Unknown1 = 5234 Company = "Department of State" Scale = FALSE Links Dirty = FALSE Unknown3 = FALSE Unknown6 = FALSE Unknown7 = 726502 Salient points here; The last modification date is Oct 03, though it is the second save. This is only Creation date == last modified. I'm not sure what that implies; perhaps the document was copied to another computer for the second edit. Can't find an easy ref to security level 4462. The account name, 'hi' almost seems intended for us! Timeline: Sep 18 Attempted Assassination of President Abdullahi Yusuf in Baidoa. Brother and 5 guard killed. Oct 03 Final edits to Aweys english translation Oct 14ish Document sent to Chinese Nov 02 President Yusef Arrives in Beijing Nov 04 Forty eight African countries that have diplomatic relations with China participate in a two-day summit.

To: From: Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 17:00:06 +1100 [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] Cyberspace reflections of political realities: Official Somali gov web-site: http://somalia-gov.info Bandwidth Limit Exceeded The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later. Apache/1.3.36 Server at www.somali-gov.info Port 80

To: From: Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 17:49:10 +1100 [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] Based on the ministers etc, it looks like an oil for arms swap. [leaked via chinese intercept of Somali Govt communications]. trusted source. Subject: The Great China Project From: Faisal Ahmed Yusuf Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 01:57:45 +0400 Dear Amb. Mohamed Awil and Abdirahman Haji; YE, first of all I am very sorry about the sad happening at our Embassy premises and what the mindless people did to our national property. Also, this is to thank you for the continuous support and cooperation provided to us, in order to make this mission a successful one. Brothers, as I was just talking to brother Syed Ali and Abdirahman, and having obtained now the consent, elderly blessing and directives of HE, the President, thanks to Syed Ali for that, it is about time to do the last few actions requested by CHEC. The Preliminary delegate coming to Beijing for the meeting consist of: Ministers: 1-Hon. Said Hassan Shire, Minister of Rebuilding and Resettlement. (Invitation letters, tickets, and hotel arranged already). 2-Hon. Abudlahi Yusuf Harare, Minister of Petroleum. (Please correct the name for me if Harare is just nickname and not the official third name) Brothers, as CHEC requested, we need to officially request a meeting between our above mentioned ministers and: 1-With the Chinese Minister/Ministry of Foreign Affairs (international Cooperation liaison office) 2-With the Chinese Minister/Ministry of Commerce. 3-With the Governor of Export and Import Bank. As indicated by the CHEC, a sample draft letter to each of the above dignitaries could be as attached (It is just a sample and you may amend it as deemed fit), as CHEC indicated, the president office could send this to the Chinese embassy at Nairobi, Kenya, while Amb. Mohd Awil could send the same directly to the Chinese ministries. Grateful if you could both make the request on urgent basis, please. CHEC, believes we should send via to two channels at the same time, please. YE, additionally, brothers there are some of us who are coming there to Beijing to lobby for the project, in a very SILENT manner we will be working from the background and support the Ministers, President delegates, Embassy so that the mission ends with the anticipated successes. Sinosom delegates: 1-Mr. Isse Haji Farah 2-Mr. Kadir Abdulrahman Mohamud 3-Mrs. Mariam Abdulahi Yusuf 4-Mr. Feysal Ahmed Yusuf. With lots of anticipation and forward looking, this is put for your kind cooperation and immediate action, please. Best of Regards; Faisal Hawar.

From: Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 16:45:09 +1100 To: [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love. In a modern economy it is impossible to seal oneself off from injustice. If we have brains or courage, then we are blessed and called on not to frit these qualities away, standing agape at the ideas of others, winning pissing contests, improving the efficiencies of the neocorporate state, or immersing ourselves in obscuranta, but rather to prove the vigor of our talents against the strongest opponents of love we can find. If we can only live once, then let it be a daring adventure that draws on all our powers. Let it be with similar types whos hearts and heads we may be proud of. Let our grandchildren delight to find the start of our stories in their ears but the endings all around in their wandering eyes. xxxxxxxx

To: From: Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 04:46:20 +1100 [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] Begin forwarded message: > From: wl-person > Date: 28. Dezember 2006 > To: > Subject: Re: somalia v4 > > Please find attached two files. The first is a proofed version > with errors corrected only where I was absolutely certain what the > changes should be (they are mostly typographical); you should be > able to use your software to compare this with the one sent to me. > The second file is a list of concerns about which I wasn't > absolutely certain what the changes ought to be. Negative numbers > are numberings from the end of the relevant paragraph, starting > from -1. I've included explanations where I felt them necessary, > and recommendations where I have been able to think of some. Given > the hour, many of them are probably more terse than they should be, > and I've probably missed a few things, but I hope you still find it > all useful. > > [] http://cryptome.org/wikileaks/inside_somalia_v4_proofed.doc [] http://cryptome.org/wikileaks/inside_somalia_v4_proofnotes.txt

To: From: Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 05:16:11 +1100 [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] Changes: 1. adapted and smoothed intro in light of ethiopian invasion. 2. few other clean ups. not many 3. added hanna's timeline and chinese oil for arms / african-china congress analysis, and further translation .doc forensics 4. purged discussion about translation source Does NOT include the proofs sent by xxxxxxxxxxxxx to this list in the last half hour. xxxxxxxxx, if you don't hear from me again before reading this message, can you do the final put together (use merge changes)? Nice work xxxxxxxxxxx, xxxxx, anonymous, xxxxxxxxxxxxx & JY. A very promising and timely result. Let's hope it gives the poor Somalis succor -- they're going to need it. [] http://cryptome.org/wikileaks/inside_somalia_v5.doc

From: Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 08:08:44 +1100 To: [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] Changes: 1. v4.1 merged with v5 2. americaniZe spelling 3. beautify intro little more Have a look. I like it. I'll shop it around later today, barring the most dramatic discoveries. Only 1.1 million - 2 leaks to go...

To: From: Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 08:32:55 +1100 [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] xxxxxxxx & interviewed xxxxxxxxx a few years back around the time of his work exposing Crypto AG. But JYA will find this amusing: I'd be happy to help as an advisory board member. I will think about others who may be also interested and provide you with their email addresses. 2 things come to mind -- being able to separate bogus documents from actual ones -- therefore it may be a good idea to have a forgery expert on the advisory board as well. John Young of Cryptome.org has done yeoman's work on publishing documents to the chagrin of a dozen or more intell agencies. He may also be a good person to approach. He is adept at anonymizing the sources of his documents. for future ref: my snail mail address is: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx for more secure communications. best for the New Year, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

From: Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 09:08:08 +1100 To: [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] Dear xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. I don't know if you remember me or xxxxxxxxxxx, but yes, we are also on the WL advisory board. Some of us are involved writing under a collective allonym for various strategic reasons (not revealed here) I enclose our first article. The article is long, but the subject is time sensitive. I know I can get material into counterpunch, and that venue reflects certain freedoms, but otherwise I don't have a feel for the american MSM or quasi-MSM. Can you have a look at the article and suggest placements? In particular a venue that others thieve from may be unusually useful. Happy new year! [] http://cryptome.org/wikileaks/inside_somalia_v62.doc

From: Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 10:08:21 +1100 To: [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] Fixed several dropped words. Otherwise no change. [] http://cryptome.org/wikileaks/inside_somalia_v7.doc

Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 11:09:29 +1100 From: To: [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] Hi xxxxxxxxxxx, Thank's for the quick reply. The technology prevents any form of direct censorship -- including by wikileaks itself. The visible wikileaks organisation can be deposed and this will not directly effect document provision. There is indirect communal "censorship" in the manner of wikipedia -- changes can be made to an entry, including deletions, however, those changes can always be seen and reverted. This is effectively taking the paper from the top of the pile and placing it on the bottom of the pile. Still available, but less visible and a lot more hassle to get to. This hassle factor denies these items the oxygen of publicity or convience, which we believe will create a social incentive to only upload material which doesn't suffer this fate, since there are more convienent venues for such material. On 12/28/06, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Thanks for the fascinating message. Wikileaks sounds like a very exciting and promising undertaking with great potential for good. > > But I think there are some "philosophical" issues or principles that need to be clarified before your questions below can be answered, because they will define the character of your project and they will affect how it is perceived by friends and foes. > > These issues boil down to the following: > > Do you recognize any limits on what information may be published on your site? (If so, what?) > > For example, would you publish personal private information (home addresses, childrens' school names, etc.) about govt officials? Information about how to use explosives with maximum impact? Obscene or racist information, or information that incites to violence? > > Will you have a procedure for accepting and considering requests to delete information from your site? > > Of course, there are different ways to answer such questions. For example, FAS is rather conservative in this respect-- there are things we will not publish, and occasionally we will remove documents from online access on request. By contrast, John Young at cryptome.org seems willing to publish just about anything. > > If you are seeking to be "sanctified" and to be perceived as a quasi-journalistic enterprise, then it would be helpful to articulate some editorial standards on these points. > > Anyway, I will think about this some more. I hope you will keep me informed as it progresses. Good luck! > > > -----Original Message----- > From: > Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 8:31 PM > To: > Subject: advisory board inquiry [wikileaks] > > xxxxxxx, please pass this around to the relevant folks (is that just you?). > > WikiLeaks is developing an uncensorable version of WikiPedia for untraceable mass document leaking and discussion. Our primary targets are those highly oppressive regimes in China, Russia and central Eurasia, but we also expect to be of assistance to those in the west who wish to reveal unethical behavior in their own governments and corporations. We aim for maximum political impact; this means our technology is (like the WikiPedia) fast and usable by non-technical people. > We have received over one million documents so far. We plan to numerically eclipse the content the English WikiPedia with leaked documents and analysis. > > [http://www.wikileaks.org/] > > We believe fostering a safe, easy, socially sanctified way for uncensorable mass document leaking, publishing and analysis is THE most cost effective generator of good governance. We seek good governance, because good governance does more than run trains on time. > Good governance responds to the sufferings of its people. Good governance answers injustice. > > We are looking for initial advisory board members to advise us politically, since our strengths are in building large technical projects such as the WikiPedia. In particular we'd like your advice > on: > > 1. How can WikiLeaks help you as a journalist and consumer of leaks? > 2. How can WikiLeaks motivate, protect, and help your sources or people like them? > 3. Who are some other good people to approach, of the figurehead variety and of > the will-actually-do-work variety? > 4. What is your advice on political frame setting and possible funding bodies? > > We expect difficult state lashback unless WikiLeaks can be given a sanctified frame ("center for human rights, democracy, good government and apple pie press freedom project" vs "hackers strike again"). Our initial reputation is carried over form the success of the WikiPedia, but we do not feel this association is, by itself, enough to protect us. The public support of organisations like FAS, who are in some sense sanctified, is vital to our initial survival. > > Advisory board positions will. at least initially, be unpaid, but we feel the role may be of significant interest to you. > > > ps. Have merry Christmass and a Happy New year! >

From: To: Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 10:31:47 -0600 [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] So many minor adjustments, so little real change. This incorporates all edits so far. Footnotes have been reattached (they got lost somehow). Some grammar/typos have been fixed. Some smoothing of corners also. Hopefully we're there now. [] http://cryptome.org/wikileaks/inside_somalia_v8.doc

Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 06:01:09 +1100 From: To: [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] Hi xxxxxxxxx, Thanks for your kind words. We've thought long and hard about this. It's easy to percieve the connection between publication and the complaints people make about publication. But this generates a perception bias, because it overlooks the vastness of the invisible. It overlooks the unintended consequences of failing to publish and it overlooks all those who are emancipated by being in a climate where bad governance cannot be concealed. Such a climate is a motivating force to behave better in the first place and shifts structures and individuals that generate bad governance away from positions where they generate poor governance. Injustice concealed cannot be answered. Concealed plans for future injustice cannot be stopped until they are revealed by becoming reality, which is too late. Administrative injustice, by defintion affects many. Government has ample avenues to abuse revelation, not limited to the full force of intelligence, law enforcement, and complicit media. Moves towards the democratisation of revelation are strongly biased in favor of justice. Where democratised revelations are unjust they tend to affect isolated individuals, but where they are just, they affect systems of policy, planning an governance and through them the lives of all. You may point to a salicious main stream media, but that is not democratised revelation. We point instead to the internet as a whole, which although not yet a vehicle of universal free revelation, is very close to it. Look at the great bounty of positive political change pooring forth as a result. WikiLeaks reveals, but it is not primarily a tool of revelation. There are many avenues on the internet for revelation. What does not exist is a social movement to that makes acting ethically by leaking a virtue. What does not exist is a comfortable way for everyone to leak safely and easily. What does not exist is a way to turn raw leaks into into politically influential knowledge through the revoutionary mass collaborative analysis of wikipedia. Sufficient leaking will bring down many administrations that rely on concealing reality -- including the US administration. Ellsberg calls for it. Everyone knows it. We're doing it. In relation to timing; We intend to go live with a reduced system in the next month. Untill then we are publishing selected analysis in convential venues to get some material out and encourage assistance. We're gradually scaling up. At the moment we have certain asymmetries- e.g more leaks than we can store or index. It's just a matter of gradually inspiring increasing commitment and resources from generous people. Like yourself :) 12/29/06, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I didn't realize that, thanks. From my perspective, I think this approach is problematic, since publication of information is not always an act of freedom. It can also be an act of aggression or oppression. Because it is so potent I don't think it should be automated to the point that it goes beyond human editorial intervention. But I understand there are advantages to doing so. > > The Somalia piece looks very interesting (though I am not an expert on the subject matter) and it seems like a good opening move for wikileaks. > > Do you have a date in mind for when you will start publishing? I could probably help spread the word. >

From: Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 20:07:56 -0600 To: [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] Gotta go now, will do rest later. counterpunch Electronic form only Submit to counterpunch[a t]counterpunch.org Length: you have a better chance with 500-2000 words. Editors don’t guarantee any response to submissions. Phone 1(707) 629-3683 or 1(800) 840-3683 znet Article and graphic submissions to chris.spannos[a t]zmag.org or sysop[a t]zmag.org (different addresses given on different pages on their site) No requirements seem to be given. I’ve Mike Albert says they’ll publish almost anything that fits with their general philosophy and politics. zmag Article submissions to zmag[a t]zmag.org or lydia.sargent[a t]zmag.org (different addresses given on different pages on their site) Unsolicited submissions welcome. Letters should be succinct and may be edited for length. Article submissions due 25th of each month -- the 25th of January for the March issue, and so on. Best to email articles. Articles should include a short, two sentence, biography. No guarantees. Address: 18 Millfield Street, Woods Hole, MA 02543 Phone: +1 508 548 9063 Fax: +1 508 457 0626 csmonitor Length 500 (for fairly simple stories) to 1,400 words (for more in- depth pieces). “When you file a story with us, it is assumed that the piece is original and exclusive to us for 90 days from the date of publication.” “we accept a new writer's work "on spec" only. That means you give us the opportunity to read your piece before we decide whether to accept it; and our agreeing to look at something on spec implies no financial obligation on our part. We try to render verdicts on pieces quickly, but we are often inundated, and you should feel free to pester us for an answer on a perishable story.” basic rate for a story is $200 to $225. “Monitor coverage though you may have to write it before journalists from other US dailies file their day-one stories almost always has to read like a day-two analysis.” Copy deadline for news is 7 a.m. EST the day before publication. Email for inquiries: regional editor for Latin America/Africa Matt Clark http://www.csmonitor.com/cgi-bin/encryptmail.pl? ID=CDE1F4F4A0C3ECE1F2EB, phone +1 617 450-2433, with copy to Amelia Newcomb newcomba[a t]csps.com village voice, aljazeera Couldn’t find any submission guidelines. Don’t take unsolicited submissions, I guess.

From: Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 21:15:17 +1100 To: [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] Search space constraints: 1. memorable 2. only one or two valid spellings, obvious to all 3. gender neutral or masculine 4. preferably two syllables (first) one second 5. preferably first name errors checks last name etc 6. clever and inducing pride in insiders 7. no or very few google references to full name 8. preferably no or few references even to last name e.g like famous ALP insider, "Hillary Bray", Spi Ballard, Lee Kline., Harry Harrison, Jack Lovejack, Larry Lovedocs, etc. However none of these fill all constraints.

Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 01:38:03 +1100 From: To: [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] We enourage people to act ethically. If, like Ellsberg they believe that involves disclosing classified information, then we can only respect their courage and do what we can to make their bravery meaningful. We're in a better position to that faced by the NYT with Ellsberg. We have no direct editorial control, the climate is laxer and the technology grants us great freedom as to jurisdiction. I seem to recall US tax deductability having clauses about not advocating violation of US laws? Is this what you were referring to? What's that law like in practice? Your comment on our make up is salient vis Eurasia. Do you have advice on who to approach? Most of are not from US but Tiawan, Europe, and Oceania. We've only just started approaching additional people. The relative wealth and tolerance of the west gives us opportunities to be involved in such a project -- I'm pretty sure it doesn't reflect any dissonanance with our stated objectives -- but it's interesting that that is your perception. On 12/29/6, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Most of these distinguished individuals are of course associated with leaks in the U.S., not in Eastern Europe, China or Russia. And they more or less openly advocate defiance of U.S. laws on disclosure of classified information. That may be your position too. But if so, it would probably disqualify the effort from U.S. foundation support... > > -----Original Message----- > From: > Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 2:58 PM > To: > Subject: Re: advisory board inquiry [wikileaks] > > Hi xxxxxxxxxx. Thanks for your Soros suggestion. As you might know, one of the first things such organisatons look for is who is on your advisory board ;) > > So far, among the people who may be known to you, we have xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, John Young, and xxxxxxxxxxxxxx and I suspect Dan Ellsberg, but this has yet to be confirmed. > > On 12/29/06, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Thanks very much. I can see you have given this some serious thought, and I believe that I understand your argument. I imagine that I am neither the first nor the last to raise questions. > > > > Anyway, I will continue to think about this, and let's see how things unfold. > > > > One of your questions concerned possible funding sources. One potential source might be the Soros Open Society Institute: > > > > http://www.soros.org/

From: Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 23:52:14 +1100 To: [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] Hey xxxxxxxxxx, We've taken the liberty, at least I hope that's the word, of subscribing you to one of our internal mailinglists. The name is deliberately obscure, but you should have received the subscription info by now. Please checkout the archives. There's no overview document yet, in part because we still working out what the problem is and what the solution looks like. I think we're substantially there, but this maybe a lack of perspective(s). You may want to read http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; an obscure motivational document, almost useless in light of its decontextualization and perhaps even then. But if you read while thinking about how different structures of power are differentially affected by leaks (the defection of the inner to the outer) its motivations may be clearer. The more secretive and unjust an organization is, the more leaks induce fear and paranoia in its leadership and planning coterie. This must result in minimization of efficient internal communications mechanisms (an increase in cognitive "secrecy tax") and consequent system-wide cognitive decline and hence the ability to hold onto power as the environment demands adaption. Hence in a world where leaking is easy, secretive or unjust systems are nonlinearly hit relative to open, just systems. Since unjust systems, by their nature induce opponents, and in many places barely have the upper hand, mass leaking leaves them exquisitely vulnerable to those who seek to replace them with more open forms of governance. Only revealed injustice can be answered; for man to do anything intelligent he has to know what's actually going on. Best,

From: Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 04:21:43 +1100 To: [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] I've shopped the somali article around to the usual places, but no bites or rejections yet. My feeling is that this is due to 1. time of year 2. length 3. new byline with no rep I've asked xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx to go intermediary.

From: Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 08:56:55 +1100 To: [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and plenty of backbone.] It's clear to me that as i2p, tor, anonnet and freenet evolves, other p2p programs become more anon and file-sharing web-sites become more popular the anon + can't get the cat in the bag part aspects of the&nbs