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From: "Heather" <Heather-AT-teknopunx.co.uk>
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Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 23:45:17 -0000


Ellsberg on Whistleblower Arrest in U.N. Spying Scandal

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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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