Chapter 18: The future of WikiLeaks
Appendix: US Embassy Cables
Acknowledgements
CAST OF CHARACTERS
WikiLeaks
MELBOURNE, NAIROBI, REYKJAVIK, BERLIN, LONDON, NORFOLK, STOCKHOLM
Julian Assange – WikiLeaks founder/editor
Sarah Harrison – aide to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
Kristinn Hrafnsson – Icelandic journalist and WikiLeaks supporter
James Ball – WikiLeaks data expert
Vaughan Smith – former Grenadier Guards captain, founder of the Frontline Club and Assange’s host at Ellingham Hall
Jacob Appelbaum – WikiLeaks’ representative in the US
Daniel Ellsberg – Vietnam war whistleblower, WikiLeaks supporter
Daniel Domscheit-Berg – German programmer and WikiLeaks technical architect (aka Daniel Schmitt)
Mikael Viborg – owner of WikiLeaks’ Swedish internet service provider PRQ
Ben Laurie – British encryption expert, adviser to Assange on encryption
Mwalimu Mati – head of anti-corruption group Mars Group Kenya, source of first major WikiLeaks report
Rudolf Elmer – former head of the Cayman Islands branch of the Julius Baer bank, source of second major WikiLeaks report
Smari McCarthy – Iceland-based WikiLeaks enthusiast, programmer, Modern Media Initiative (MMI) campaigner
Birgitta Jonsdottir – Icelandic MP and WikiLeaks supporter
Rop Gonggrijp – Dutch hacker-businessman, friend of Assange and MMI campaigner
Herbert Snorrason – Icelandic MMI campaigner
Israel Shamir – WikiLeaks associate
Donald Bostrom – Swedish journalist and WikiLeaks’ Stockholm connection
The Guardian
LONDON
Alan Rusbridger – editor-in-chief
Nick Davies – investigative reporter
David Leigh – investigations editor
Ian Katz – deputy editor (news)
Ian Traynor – Europe correspondent
Harold Frayman – systems editor
Declan Walsh – Pakistan/Afghanistan correspondent
Alastair Dant – data visualiser
Simon Rogers – data editor
Jonathan Steele – former Iraq correspondent
James Meek – former Iraq correspondent
Rob Evans – investigative journalist
Luke Harding – Moscow correspondent
Robert Booth – reporter
Stuart Millar – news editor, guardian.co.uk
Janine Gibson – editor, guardian.co.uk
Jonathan Casson – head of production
Gill Phillips – in-house head of legal
Jan Thompson – managing editor
New York Times
NEW YORK, LONDON
