LAHORE: Asian intelligence sources say that there is a strong belief in some Asian countries, particularly China and Thailand, that the website Wikileaks, which purports to publish classified and sensitive documents while guaranteeing anonymity to the providers, is linked to US cyber-warfare and computer espionage operations, as well as to Mossad’s own cyber-warfare activities, investigative blog Wayne Madsen Report (WMR) said on Sunday.
Wikileaks claims to have decrypted video footage of a US Predator air strike on civilians in Afghanistan and that covert US State Department agents followed Wikileaks’s editor from Iceland to Norway in a surveillance operation conducted jointly by the US States and Iceland, WMR said. Iceland’s financially-strapped government recently announced a policy of becoming a haven for websites that fear political oppression and censorship in their home countries. However, in the case of Wikileaks, countries like China and Thailand are suspicious of the websites’ actual “ownership”, WMR said. Wikileaks says it intends to show its video at an April 5 press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, but that its presenters may be detained or arrested before that time. WMR said its sources believe the Wikileaks “militancy” in the face of supposed surveillance appears fake.
Our Asian intelligence sources report the following: “Wikileaks is running a disinformation campaign, crying persecution by US intelligence – when it is US intelligence itself. Its [Wikileaks’] activities in Iceland are totally suspect.” Wikileaks claims it is the victim of a new COINTELPRO [Counter Intelligence Programme] directed by the Pentagon and various US intelligence agencies.
WMR said its sources believed that Wikileaks that is part and parcel of a cyber-COINTELPRO campaign, such as that proposed by President Obama’s “information czar,” Dr Cass Sunstein. In January 2007, John Young, who runs cryptome.org, a site that publishes a wealth of sensitive and classified information, left Wikileaks, claiming the operation was a CIA front. Young also published some 150 email messages sent by Wikileaks activists on cryptome. They include a disparaging comment about this editor by Wikileaks co-founder Dr Julian Assange of Australia. Assange lists as one of his professions “hacker”. His German co-founder of Wikileaks uses a pseudonym, “Daniel Schmitt”. Wikileaks claims it is “a multi-jurisdictional organisation to protect internal dissidents, whistleblowers, journalists and bloggers who face legal or other threats related to publishing [whose] primary interest is in exposing oppressive regimes in Asia, the former Soviet bloc, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, but we are of assistance to people of all nations who wish to reveal unethical behavior in their governments and corporations. We aim for maximum political impact. We have received over 1.2 million documents so far from dissident communities and anonymous sources.”
In China, Wikileaks is suspected of having Mossad connections. It is pointed out that its first “leak” was from an Al Shabbab “insider” in Somalia. Al Shabbab is the Muslim insurgent group that the neo-cons have linked to “Al Qaeda”.
“Asian intelligence sources also point out that Assange’s “PhD” is from Moffett University, an on-line diploma mill and that while he is said to hail from Nairobi, Kenya, he actually is from Australia where his exploits have included computer hacking and software piracy,” WMR said.
WMR said its had confirmed Young’s contention that Wikileaks is a CIA front operation. Wikileaks is intimately involved in a $20 million CIA operation that US-based Chinese dissidents that hack into computers in China. Some of the Chinese hackers route special hacking programme through Chinese computers that then target US government and military computer systems.
“After the hacking is accomplished, the US government announces through friendly media outlets that US computers have been subjected to a Chinese cyber-attack. The “threat” increases an already-bloated cyber-defence and offence budget and plays into the fears of the American public and businesses that heavily rely on information technology,” WMR said.
It said that on Wikileaks’ advisory board is Ben Laurie, a one-time programmer and Internet security expert for Google, which recently signed a cooperative agreement with the US National Security Agency (NSA) and has been charged by China with being part of a US cyber-espionage campaign against China.
Other Wikileaks advisory members are leading Chinese dissidents, including Wan Dan, who won the 1998 National Endowment for Democracy (NED) Democracy Award; Wang Youcai, founder of the Chinese Democracy Party; Xiao Qiang, the director of the China Internet Project at the University of California at Berkeley, member of the advisory board of the International Campaign for Tibet, and commentator on the George Soros-affiliated Radio Free Asia; and Tibetan exile and activist Tashi Namgyal Khamsitsang.
WMR said its sources in Asia believed that Wikileaks ran afoul of their CIA paymasters after it was discovered that some of Wikileaks’s “take” was being diverted to Mossad instead of to their benefactors at Langley. After a CIA cut in funding, “Daniel Schmitt” took over and moved the Wikileaks operation to Belgium and Sweden with hopes of making a more secure base in Iceland.
There are strong suspicions that Wikileaks is yet another Soros-funded “false flag” operation on the left side of the political spectrum. WMR said it had learnt that after former Senator Norm Coleman decided to oppose Soros’s choice of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan’s deputy Mark Malloch Brown as president of the World Bank, succedding the disgraced Paul Wolfowitz, Soros put the Wikileaks operation into high gear.
“Daniel Schmitt” hacked into Coleman’s supporters list, stealing credit card info, addresses, and publishing the “take” on Wikileaks. Democrat Al Franken, who was strongly backed by Soros, defeated Coleman in a legally-contested and very close election.
WMR also said that Soros was behind the operation to move Wikileaks to Iceland. By becoming a power in Iceland, Soros could prevent Icelanders from paying back the British and Dutch investors in Icelandic online Ponzi scheme banking and continue his all-out war against British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who has, in turn, targeted Soros for betting against pound sterling.
Iceland is classic prey for Soros. The Icelandic krona has been decimated as a currency and has no where to go but up in value, especially if the British pound and the euro depreciate.
