1. David Crary, “Older, Quieter Than WikiLeaks, Cryptome Perseveres,” Sunday Gazette (Charlston, W.V.), March 10, 2013, p. A12.
2. Ibid.
3. Brian Kladko, “Gadfly Posts Secrets on Web Site,” The Record (Bergen County, NJ), December 15, 2004, p. A1.
4. Paul T. Colgan, “Spying Game,” Sunday Business Post (Cork, Ireland), September 5, 2004.
5. Ibid.
6. David Kushner, “Click and Dagger,” Mother Jones, July/August 2010, p. 64.
7. Jeanne Whalen, “Website Shines Spotlight on Leaks from WikiLeaks,” The Wall Street Journal, October 27, 2010, p. 12.
8. Manning later changed gender, and took the first name Chelsea.
9. See Charlie Savage, “Was Snowden a Russian Agent?” New York Review of Books, February 9, 2017.
10. For implementation dates, see “SecureDrop,” Wikipedia, https://web.archive.org/web/20190107195518/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SecureDrop
11. Bruce Schneier, “The U.S. Intelligence Community Has a Third Leaker,” Schneier on Security, August 7, 2014.
12. Jacob Appelbaum, Holger Stark, Marcel Rosenbach, and Jörg Schindler, “Merkel beschwert sich bei Obama,” Der Spiegel, October 23, 2013.
13. Marcel Rosenbach, conversation with Thomas Rid, May 8, 2017.
14. Marcel Rosenbach and Holger Stark, “Von Mielke zu Merkel,” Der Spiegel 39 (September 27, 2010), pp. 30–31.
15. Glenn Greenwald, conversation with Thomas Rid, May 10, 2019.
16. Rüdiger Ditz, “Karriere einer Abschrift,” Der Spiegel, December 13, 2014.
17. Jay Carney, White House Press Briefing, October 23, 2013, 1:14 p.m. EST.
18. The story predates the press release by ten minutes, but the White House had provided the same talking points to Der Spiegel before the briefing. See Appelbaum et al., “Merkel beschwert sich bei Obama.”
19. Ibid.
20. Quoted in “German Paper Says Obama Aware of Spying on Merkel Since 2010,” Reuters, October 27, 2013.
21. “Range: Kein Beweis für Ausspähung von Merkels Handy,” Frankfurter Allgemeine, December 11, 2014.
22. “We use a Anonymous Posting concept. Anyone can post to the site. No censorship takes place! NO DOXING ONLY IF ITS UR MOM!,” CyberGuerrilla, undated, https://web.archive.org/web/20131203114704/https://www.cyberguerrilla.org/blog/?page_id=163.
23. “Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Massive DOCS leak. MFA.GOV.UA Hacked,” CyberGuerrilla, October 23, 2013, https://web.archive.org/web/20131031054428/http://www.cyberguerrilla.org:80/blog/?p=16121.
24. “‘Muddling and Meddling’? U.S., EU Politicians Plunge Deeper into Kiev Protest,” Russia Today, December 11, 2013.
25. See James Bamford, “Evidence Points to Another Snowden at the NSA,” Reuters, August 21, 2016.
26. Re Post, “Марионетки Майдана” (Puppets of the Maidan), February 4, 2014, 12:33:35 UTC, http://web.archive.org/web/20140206151309/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSxaa-67yGM.
27. Re Post, “Как они делят Украину” (How They Divide Ukraine), February 4, 2014, 12:33:34 UTC, http://web.archive.org/web/20140207063125/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOjrACdTQE8.
28. @SpartakSergiewi, “Марионетки Майдана,” February 5, 2014 05:36:11 GMT, https://web.archive.org/web/20140209114828/https://twitter.com/SpartakSergiewi/status/430937877912907776.
29. Putnik1, “НАХОДКА ДЛЯ ШПИОНА,” Livejournal, February 6, 2014, 09:53 Moscow time, https://web.archive.org/web/20170714184254/http://putnik1.livejournal.com:80/2694075.html.
30. The YouTube account first posting the video was the pro-Russian “Re Post.” “Лев Николаевич Мышкин” (fictional name), 09:41:53 Moscow time, February 6, 2014, http://web.archive.org/web/20140206073624/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6f3rHZV5JQ.
31. @DLoskutov, “Sort of controversial…,” February 5, 2014, 20:35 GMT, https://web.archive.org/web/20140208234900/https://twitter.com/DLoskutov/status/431330171518345217.
32. “Merkel findet ‘Fuck the EU’-Beleidigung inakzeptabel,” Der Spiegel, February 7, 2014.
33. Ed Pilkington, “U.S. Official Apologises to EU Counterparts for Undiplomatic Language,” The Guardian, February 6, 2014.
34. @DLoskutov, February 6, 2014, 10:52 GMT https://web.archive.org/web/20140209235755/https://twitter.com/DLoskutov/status/431545895935811585.
35. Roman Olearchyk and Neil Buckley, “Leaked Ukraine Recording Reveals U.S. Exasperation with EU,” Financial Times, February 6, 2014.