How Russia Often Benefits When Julian Assange Reveals the West’s Secrets

Re:How Russia Often Benefits When Julian Assange Reveals the... by paavokoya on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @08:44PM (#12402504)

   Other leaks like the SONY leaks indicating the US State Department's active role in puppeteering "The Interview"

Is there any source to this? I haven't found any in the leaks.

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Re:How Russia Often Benefits When Julian Assange Reveals the... by jwtadvice on Thursday September 01, 2016 @12:50PM (#12406851)

Yes, in the email leaks it was disclosed that:

- Michael Lynton (the CEO of SONY) had been in consultation with the State Department over The Interview, and had been giving the Bureau of Information Programs (one of the State Department propaganda bureaus) early screenings.

- Lynton was in consultation with both State Department officials and a RAND expert on nuclear non-proliferation, North Korea and regime change (Bennett).

- The Special Envoy to South Korea had been speaking with Executives of SONY about plans to have The Interview smuggled into the North.

- Clinton staffers and CIA officials were on site during the production of The Interview.

Indeed, the North Korean hacker group attributed by the FBI for the attack (Bureau 121) has a mandate to (and history of) target media companies partnering with adversary states to develop propaganda as a deterrence strategy.

If you Google around for those names and themes you will stumble on articles from various reputable sources that cover it as well as original emails themselves in Wikileaks.

It should be noted that the Wikileaks dump of SONY also implicated them in partnering with the US State Department in other business related to "international messaging", while "The Interview" was merelyl a high profile case.

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Re:How Russia Often Benefits When Julian Assange Reveals the... by paavokoya on Thursday September 01, 2016 @08:14PM (#12409819)

Thanks! Had no idea.

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