From: "Heather" <Heather-AT-teknopunx.co.uk> Subject: Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 23:45:17 -0000 Ellsberg on Whistleblower Arrest in U.N. Spying Scandal ----- Original Message ----- From: "Institute for Public Accuracy" <ipamedia-AT-nationalpress.com> To: <public-AT-lists.accuracy.org> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 1:32 PM Subject: Ellsberg on Whistleblower Arrest in U.N. Spying Scandal > Institute for Public Accuracy > 915 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045 > (202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * ipa-AT-accuracy.org > ___________________________________________________ > > Monday, March 10, 2003 > > Interviews Available: > > Ellsberg on Whistleblower Arrest > in U.N. Spying Scandal > > A 28-year-old woman working at the British Government Communications > Headquarters has been arrested on suspicion of contravening the Official > Secrets Act. > > The arrest came shortly after the Observer newspaper in London revealed > a top-secret memo from the U.S. National Security Agency outlining plans > for spying on U.N. delegates, part of U.S. efforts to gain approval for a > new Security Council resolution on Iraq. > > The Observer reported yesterday that "a top-secret memo from the > National Security Agency, which monitors communications around the world, > was passed to this newspaper by British security sources who objected to > being asked to aid the American operation. The leak marks a serious breach > between the Blair government and elements of the intelligence community > opposed to using British security resources to help the U.S. drive towards > war." > > The NSA memo stated that the Agency "is mounting a surge particularly > directed at the UN Security Council members" for "dependencies" and "the > whole gamut of information that could give U.S. policymakers an edge in > obtaining results favorable to U.S. goals..." The Observer reports that the > U.N. has begun a top-level inquiry into the NSA document. > > Daniel Ellsberg, who authored the new book "Secrets: A Memoir of > Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers," said today: "This leak is potentially > more significant than the release of the Pentagon Papers, since it is > extraordinarily timely. More officials who know -- as I did in 1964-65 -- > that the president, and their bosses, are lying us into a wrongful, > reckless, unnecessary war should consider doing right now, before the bombs > are falling, what I wish I had done at a comparable point, in the months > before the onset of the Rolling Thunder bombing [in Vietnam]: going to > Congress and the press with documents that undercut official lies. There is > still time to avert this invasion with sufficiently comprehensive > truth-telling." > > [Media Advisory: Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971, will > speak at a news conference about the recently leaked NSA memo and related > issues, in Washington, D.C., at the National Press Building in the Murrow > Room at noon on Tuesday, March 11.] > > In addition, for a limited number of interviews, Ellsberg can be > reached at: > > DANIEL ELLSBERG, Michael-AT-ellsberg.net, http://www.ellsberg.net > > Also available for interviews are Observer reporters who broke the NSA > story: > > ED VULLIAMY, ed.vulliamy-AT-observer.co.uk > MARTIN BRIGHT, martin.bright-AT-observer.co.uk > > The latest story from the Observer is at: > http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,910648,00.html > > For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy: > Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020; or David Zupan, (541) 484-9167
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