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Chelsea Manning, former intelligence analyst: “If someone were to publish a massive leak today, people would say ‘oh this isn’t true”

jordi perez — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 14:51:33 GMT

“I was very young when all this stuff happened,” says Chelsea Manning, 37. “All this stuff” was leaking hundreds of thousands of secret U.S. government documents to WikiLeaks in 2010. Manning was stationed in Iraq as an intelligence analyst and saw horrific things that she believed Americans needed to know. She was then imprisoned until 2017. Released after transitioning to a woman, she returned to prison in 2019 and wrote her memoirs.

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Spying on the spies: from James Bond to Edward Snowden, Mata Hari and Hedy Lamarr

Gregorio Belinchón Yagüe — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 14:12:50 GMT

From “The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning. Then the soul-erosion produced by high gambling — a compost of greed and fear and nervous tension — becomes unbearable and the senses awake and revolt from it” to “I have not made public anything that endangers people. I think European governments are afraid of me” there is not only a time lapse of more than six decades, but also a huge journey between fiction and reality. A journey between the first sentence of Casino Royale, the first novel starring James Bond, which its creator, Ian Fleming, published in 1952, to a September 2019 interview published in EL PAÍS with Edward Snowden, a CIA computer security expert and the source of one of the biggest leaks of state secrets in history when he brought to light a program of mass surveillance on a global scale by the CIA and the U.S. National Security Agency in 2013. For some, a hero; for others, a villain.

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Pentagon intelligence leak sends Washington into damage control

María Antonia Sánchez-Vallejo Cobo — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 08:45:24 GMT

An unknown number of people have been able to access Pentagon intelligence documents posted on social media and online gaming platforms since early March. The leak — the most serious since WikiLeaks published 250,000 State Department cables in 2010 and the 2013 Edward Snowden leak of National Security Agency (NSA) classified information — has revealed sensitive information about important U.S. allies, such as Canada, South Korea, Israel and Egypt, straining relations with those countries. Ukraine has also been forced to amend some of its military plans, as the leak contained information on its planned counteroffensive to liberate the Russian-controlled east of the country. While the Justice Department’s continues its investigation into the case, Washington has two priorities: finding out the source of the leak and plugging it immediately. The Pentagon has described the online leaks as a “very serious risk” to national security.

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