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struggle4progress

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3. Nah. They might continue to feed his paranoia, though, like this:
Tue Nov 26, 2013, 10:09 AM
Nov 2013
Teenage WikiLeaks volunteer: Why I served as an FBI informant
Sigurdur Thordarson got $5,000 for handing over 1TB of WikiLeaks data.
by Cyrus Farivar - Jun 28, 2013 1:00 am UTC

... Sigurdur “Siggi” Thordarson .. then an 18-year-old ... had been involved with WikiLeaks during the previous 18 months, moving ever-closer to the inner circle of the group—Julian Assange eventually promoted him to running the group’s IRC channel, and he was put in charge of dealing with newcomers, media, and other volunteers. On Thursday, Wired revealed the Icelandic teenager that was part of WikiLeaks also served as a paid FBI informant, publishing months of e-mails from Thordarson to his FBI handlers .... Over the course of about a year, Thordarson, now 20, claims he was paid around $5,000 in cash .. in exchange for his cooperation with the investigation into WikiLeaks, which included being questioned and handing over around 1TB of data .. that included chat logs, videos, documents, pictures, and other .. data ...

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