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June 27, 2013 08:08 pm GMT

Revealed: WikiLeaks Volunteer Doubled as FBI Mole

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For three months in 2011 — less than a year after WikiLeaks released its most famous series of documents leaked by Bradley Manning — a mole inside the non-profit organization provided the FBI with chat logs, videos and other data from Julian Assange and his associates

The mole's name is Sigurdur "Siggi" Thordarson, a longtime Icelandic volunteer working for WikiLeaks at the time. On Thursday, Wired's Kevin Poulsen revealed Thordarson's double role as a close Assange protégé and a paid informant working for the United States government in its WikiLeaks investigation.

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