09-16 U.S. PSYOP programs expand on a global scale. "You may not be interested in psychological warfare, but psychological warfare is interested in you. " -Xu Hezhen As the U.S. has increased its use of Psychological Operations (PSYOP), the acknowledged effectiveness of its methods has led to global use of PSYOPS tactics by both U.S. allies and enemies. Recent reports indicate that U.S. PSYOP has even extended to target U.S. citizens - which constitutes a violation of law. According to the U.S. The 2003 toppling of a statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad was (contrary to popular belief) staged by a U.S. PSYOP methods reportedly include: the dissemination of propaganda via leaflets, local television and radio stations, newspapers, and the internet; using prolonged noise harassment to demoralize targets; and telephoning the family members of enemy forces, in efforts to intimidate the opposition.
However, U.S. More troubling to some have been indications that the U.S. may have recently overstepped its bounds by using PSYOP domestically. WikiLeaks cables claim al-Jazeera changed coverage to suit Qatari foreign policy | World news. Qatar is using the Arabic news channel al-Jazeera as a bargaining chip in foreign policy negotiations by adapting its coverage to suit other foreign leaders and offering to cease critical transmissions in exchange for major concessions, US embassy cables released by WikiLeaks claim.
The memos flatly contradict al-Jazeera's insistence that it is editorially independent despite being heavily subsidised by the Gulf state. They will also be intensely embarrassing to Qatar, which last week controversially won the right to host the 2022 World Cup after presenting itself as the most open and modern Middle Eastern state. In the past, the emir of Qatar has publicly refused US requests to use his influence to temper al-Jazeera's reporting. But a cable written in November 2009 predicted that the station could be used "as a bargaining tool to repair relationships with other countries, particularly those soured by al-Jazeera's broadcasts, including the United States" over the next three years.
Interactive Timeline: WikiLeaks cables and the Philippines. Miriam rages at Ramos' Gaddafi funds Sep 5, 2011 Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago asks the Senate to investigate recent information released by online whistleblower group WikiLeaks, which revealed that former President Fidel Ramos received P5 million from Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi for his 1992 presidential campaign. Santiago, who claims Ramos cheated her in the polls, filed a resolution calling on the Senate electoral reform and Blue Ribbon Committees to conduct a probe on the matter. Santiago suspects the money Ramos got from Gaddafi helped him cheat during the elections. Business exec seeks probe on Mike Arroyo Former Makati Business Club executive director Bill Luz has urged the Aquino administration to look into the alleged corruption involving former First Gentleman Jose Miguel "Mike" Arroyo that was revealed in a US cable released by whistleblower group WikiLeaks.
Mike Arroyo denies links to syndicates Palace downplays Kenney's assessment of PNoy Sep 4, 2011 Sep 2, 2011 Sep 1, 2011. WikiLeaks cable: Gaddafi funded, trained CPP-NPA rebels | ABS-CBN News | Latest Philippine Headlines, Breaking News, Video, Analysis, Features. MANILA, Philippines - Libyan strongman Moammar Gaddafi was a key financier of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its military wing, the New People's Army (NPA), according to a US Secretary of State secret cable published by anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks. The Libyan government gave at least $7 million to the CPP-NPA in a 5-year period in the late 1980s and early 1990s, according to cable dated November 14, 1991.
The cable, one of the earliest on WikiLeaks' archives that discussed the Philippines, tackled the indictment of Libyan officials for the bombing of PAN AM Flight 103 in 1998. The memo said Libya's support for terrorist groups was extensive worldwide, and allowed militants to train in Libyan camps. The cable said Libya provided funding to the CPP-NPA and other groups by directly giving money to militants who trained in the North African country. "Trainees from Asia, Latin America, and Africa often go to Libya legally, usually pretending to be students. {*style:<b> </b>*} Cable cluster graph. A interactive visualization of the references between diplomatic cables.
Index Browse the visualizations! Please use a recent Chrome or Safari. Firefox does display it correctly, but is missing the "jump" functionality. How is it made? The cables.csv contains a field for referencing related cables via MRN. Example: What is the structure of the network? Some of these clusters form a star which can be a indication for a type of "action request" that was sent to multiple embassies. The largest cluster (giant) contains ~100000 cables with ~143000 references. For every community, cluster or star a interactive visualization is generated. What are missing cables? From the total of 251287 cables ~56000 additional cables are referenced but not included in the cables.csv.
For some of the missing cables it is possible to estimate the date of creation. What can i do? Zoom in and out of the graph with the (+ / -) on the upper left. How do i read the graph? Code and Data cable2graph source code (GPLv3). Contact. Wikileaks: ICE / IFPI Infiltrate Pirate Topsites. A diplomatic cable leaked by Wikileaks reveals that entertainment industry groups and law enforcement combined their efforts to infiltrate Warez Scene topsites. One of the strategies they discuss during a 2009 meeting is to have an informant leak music before the official release date, to gain trust of the site's operator and gain access to the highly secured Scene servers. If anything, the diplomatic cables that were released by Wikileaks reveal that entertainment industry groups such as the MPAA, RIAA and IFPI are pitching their agendas at the highest political levels. These private groups train law enforcement officers around the world and are used to gather evidence, as if they were law enforcement branches.
A good example of the above is cable from October 2009, written by Kathleen Stephens, U.S. ambassador in South Korea. In the cable Stephens writes about a meeting between South Korean law enforcement officials, lobby groups IFPI and the MPAA, and a representative from the U.S. Wikileaks: Microsoft aided former Tunisian regime | Security. Microsoft provided IT training to law enforcement officials in Tunisia while the country was governed by a repressive regime, embassy cables published by Wikileaks show.
Cables leaked by Wikileaks show that Microsoft provided IT training to law enforcement officials in Tunisia, before the country threw off its repressive regime in 2011. Photo credit: Nasser Nouri on Flickr According to a cable sent by the US embassy in Tunis on 22 September, 2006, Microsoft was so keen to get the Tunisian government to drop its policy favouring open-source software that it agreed to set up a "program on cyber criminality" to cover training. The deal also entailed the company giving the Tunisian regime, headed by President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, the original source code for Microsoft software.
The cable was made public last week by Wikileaks as part of a massive and largely accidental publication of unredacted US embassy messages. Tunisia 'not free' Open-source opposition. Wikileaks exposes fierce fight in govt for control of Ghana oil. The latest release of leaked diplomatic cables by the whistle-blowing website, Wikileaks has revealed some persons around the Presidency have tried to use their influence to manipulate control of the country's oil resources for their personal gain. The documents detailing correspondence between the US Embassy and Washington reveals private discussions with government aides who were of the opinion that the long drawn out tussle over government's interests in the shares of Jubilee Field partner, Kosmos Energy was one such manifestation of this manipulation.
The cables however also indicate that the American Embassy believed in the country's legal structures. Joy Business' Israel Laryea who has been poring over some of the cables reports that government for most of the time that it blocked US energy giant ExxonMobil from acquiring the shares of Kosmos Energy insisted that it was a matter of national pride that the country should have a say in who acquires the shares.
McClatchy blog: China Rises. This cable, from the U.S. consulate in Chengdu, is a great read. It's from 2007, but one suspects the world of Chinese state propaganda hasn't changed much since then. If you're in a hurry, take a look at the "Propagandizing Foreigners" section at the bottom. CLASSIFIED BY: James A. Boughner, Consul General, U.S. Consulate General, Chengdu, China. REASON: 1.4 (b), (d) 1. Standard propaganda manual, a young Kunming City propaganda department official in southwest China told us of his hopes to work his way up to a comfortable job in a state enterprise.
Among other "pearls of wisdom," the widely available propaganda manual highlights the importance of careful management of the internet to prevent foreign "ideological infiltration and notes that "feeding propaganda" to foreigners should be approached differently than internal agitprop. 2. Propaganda Department official introduced himself to Congenoff, whom he had noticed reading the 2003 Red Flag Press book recent trips to the city. Propaganda work. Drug war cables: 'Burn poppies, burn' - Interactive. WikiLeaks: 'Drugs, thugs and facts' around the world maps some of the recently released US cables on the 'war on drugs' Titles from some of the latest WikiLeaks cables on the "war on drugs" read like cheeky tabloid headlines rather than polished prose from international diplomats.
"Coke, tokes and inept folks: Can Sierra Leone stay tough on drugs? " reads a secret 2008 cable from the US embassy in Freetown, Sierra Leone's capital. Diplomats in the West African country of Guinea-Bissau wrote: "No confidence in government, [but] high confidence in drugs. " In a cable title that could have come from Hunter S Thompson's, diplomats in Mexico expressed fear and loathing for "Drugs and downturn on the border".
"Preval on thugs, drugs and his health,” opened a dispatch from Haiti, in words that would impress murdered rap star Notorious B.I.G. The title of a cable written by the US consulate in Guadalajara, Mexico, even riffed on a classic Disney film. Haiti: Drug trafficking 'greatest problem' WikiLeaks: The five funniest cables about the 'war on drugs' Poring over US diplomatic cables leaked by WikiLeaks can be a dull business - diplomatic jargon and boring posts on consular activities. But like the journalists who read them, the young diplomats who filed the dispatches from US embassies sometimes like to have fun. Here are five of the funniest titles from dispatches related to the "war on drugs". 1) Coke, tokes and inept folks: Can Sierra Leon stay tough on drugs 2) Russia: Nashi summer camp 2008: Sex, thugs and the ROC on a roll (ROC in this case stands for the Russian Orthodox Church) 3) Haiti: Preval on thugs drugs and his health 4) Mexico: Beauty and the beasts: Miss Sinaloa detained with drug thugs 5) Guinea Bissau: No confidence in government, high confidence in drugs These cables might have caused smirks among seasoned diplomats when the dispatches were sent back to the state department in Washington.
A map locating some of the drug war cables, can be accessed here. Julian Assange and WikiLeaks: no case, no need | Editorial. We are learning in numerous ways how hard it is, in a digital age, to keep control of information. Voice messages, emails, corporate documents, medical records, DNA, government secrets – all are vulnerable to hacking, snooping and simple spillage. From the moment a hacker (or, possibly, a whistleblower) passed a vast store of US government and military records to WikiLeaks it was always on the cards that this data would eventually spill out indiscriminately into the open. This week most of it has – accelerated by WikiLeaks itself, which chose to publish the state department cables in unredacted form.
This paper, and the four other news organisations involved in publishing heavily edited selections from the war logs and cables last year, are united in condemning this act. But, with the well-documented rifts in the original WikiLeaks team last year, the data was not secured. One copy was obtained by Heather Brooke, the freedom of information campaigner.
Cablegate encryption. 07-18: The Guardian blames Wikileaks for the arrest of Bradley Manning. A new article by the Guardian's James Ball fleshes out David Leigh's allegation that Wikileaks is to blame for the arrest of Bradley Manning. Last week's release of the unredacted Lamo-Manning chat logs contained more information on the means by which Bradley Manning is alleged to have leaked information to Wikileaks. For a year now, Julian Assange has insisted that he can neither confirm nor deny whether Bradley Manning is the source for the leaks, since - as a matter of policy - the identity of the source is not known to Wikileaks. Wikileaks protects its sources by keeping them anonymous through cryptography and a secure submission system. Even if pressured to reveal their sources by court order - so goes the reasoning - Wikileaks will be unable to do so.
The original redacted chat logs contained no information which contradicted this, but they did contain various passages which appeared to make the story less likely. In fact, the book was even more indiscreet. Wikileaks: Cablegate search is overlo... This week in WikiLeaks press: 25-31 August. Starting last week, WikiLeaks began publishing massive tranches of unclassified cables, and earlier this week it emerged that the full set of 251,287 cables had been decrypted by a password published in David Leigh’s book on WikiLeaks, and that this encrypted file was widely available. During the previous week’s publication of more than 100,000 unclassified cables, WikiLeaks asked the public to help crowd-source a search for cables of interest on Twitter.
This week’s press roundup gathers a sample of headlines from the past week on a very wide spectrum of topics. Iraq: U.S. troops reported to have executed 10 Iraqi civilians, including five children, four women WikiLeaks released nearly 150,000 cables before the full archive of State Department cables appeared online this week. McClatchy reports on a cable recounting a March 15, 2006 incident in which U.S. troops allegedly executed 10 Iraqi civilians and destroyed the evidence by calling an airstrike.
U.S. interests in the Philippines. WikiLeaks site comes under cyber attack | Media. The WikiLeaks website has fallen victim to an apparent cyber attack after the accelerated publication of tens of thousands of state department cables by the anti-secrecy organisation raised fresh concerns about the exposure of confidential US embassy sources. "WikiLeaks.org is presently under attack," the group said on Twitter late on Tuesday. One hour later, the site and the cables posted there were inaccessible.
WikiLeaks updated its Twitter account to say it was "still under a cyberattack" and directed followers to search for cables on a mirror site or a separate search system, cablegatesearch.net. The apparent cyber attack comes after current and former US officials said the recently released cables – and concerns over the protection of sources – are creating a fresh source of diplomatic setbacks and embarrassment for the Obama administration. It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack. WikiLeaks hit back at the criticism even as its website came under attack. What has happened to WikiLeaks? - Features, Gadgets & Tech.
Facts and myths in the WikiLeaks/Guardian saga - Glenn Greenwald. Guardian Investigative Editor David Leigh publishes top secret Cablegate password revealing names of U.S. collaborators and informants... in his book - Nigel Parry. WikiLeaks password leak FAQ « Unspecified Behaviour. Télégrammes diplomatiques : "WikiLeaks a lui-même été victime d'une fuite"
Guardian journalist negligently disclosed Cablegate passwords. Wikileaks: It is strictly false that... Letters: Facts and myths in the WikiLeaks/Guardian saga - Salon. Wikileaks: IMPORTANT: tweet your US c... 30 new revelations from #wlfind. Major War Crime Coverup Called Attention to by WikiLeaks Cable. Another ‘Collateral Murder’ Incident Highlighted by WikiLeaks Cables. Obama and GOPers Worked Together to Kill Bush Torture Probe. Wikileaks: Obama Administration Secretly Worked To Prevent Prosecution of War Crimes By The Bush Administration. Dear Chaos: WikiLeaks and the "Publish or Perish" movement. Secrecy, leaks, and the real criminals - Glenn Greenwald. Wikileaks Cable: US Executed Iraqi Women, Children. WL Central | WikiLeaks news, analysis and action. Unredacted US embassy cables available online after WikiLeaks breach | World news.
Unredacted US embassy cables available online after WikiLeaks breach | World news. WikiLeaks: Panic Growing in Diplomatic Circles.