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Slide from an NSA presentation on "Google Cloud Exploitation" from its MUSCULAR program;[129] the sketch shows where the "Public Internet" meets the internal "Google Cloud" where user data resides.[130]

Data visualization of US intelligence black budget (2013)

Hong Kong rally to support Snowden, June 15, 2013

Spain, France, and Italy (red) denied Bolivian president Evo Morales permission to cross their airspace. Morales's plane landed in Austria (yellow).

A rally in Germany in support of Snowden on August 30, 2014

Edward Snowden

Edward Snowden is an American former NSA intelligence contractor and whistleblower who leaked classified documents revealing global surveillance programs.

Lineage Bound to the Federal Apparatus

Long before challenging government surveillance, Snowden grew up in a family deeply embedded in federal service. His maternal grandfather, Edward J. Barrett, rose to rear admiral in the Coast Guard and later became a senior official with the FBI. Barrett was stationed at the Pentagon in 2001 during the September 11 attacks. Edward Snowden originally expected to work for the federal government just like the rest of his family.

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Chelsea Manning

Manning in 2012

Adrian Lamo (left) and Wired's Kevin Poulsen (right) in 2001. The person in the middle, Kevin Mitnick, had no involvement in the Manning case.[149]

Manning (left) in Brooklyn during the coronavirus pandemic in April 2020, forty days after her release from jail[213]

Chelsea Manning interviewed at Wired Next Festival 2018 in Milan

Chelsea Manning

Chelsea Manning is an American activist, whistleblower, and former U.S. Army soldier who disclosed hundreds of thousands of sensitive documents to WikiLeaks.

Smuggling Secrets Behind a Pop Star Disguise

Manning concealed unauthorized classified downloads by disguising digital storage media under a musical cover. She saved leaked material onto a CD-RW and smuggled it through military security labeled as Lady Gaga inside the artist's CD case. While operating the classified computer, she lip-synced to Lady Gaga music to simulate listening to songs rather than extracting data.

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Jeffrey Wigand

Jeffrey Wigand is an American biochemist and tobacco industry whistleblower.

Healthcare Management Across Continents

Prior to entering the tobacco sector, Jeffrey Stephen Wigand developed an extensive healthcare background across major corporations. He worked for well-known healthcare companies such as Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson. Additionally, he served as General Manager and marketing director at Union Carbide in Japan, as well as a senior vice president at Technicon Instruments.

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FBI photo of Mark Felt

J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI, photographed in 1961. Hoover appointed Felt the third-ranking official in the bureau in 1971.

L. Patrick Gray, acting director of the FBI from May 1972 to April 1973

Felt saw all files on the FBI's investigation of the burglary at the Watergate complex in 1972

Felt's leaks to Woodward spurred investigations that led to Nixon's resignation

President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt and Miller.

Mark Felt

William Mark Felt Sr. was an American law enforcement officer who worked for the FBI and became known for his role in uncovering the Watergate scandal.

Toilet Paper Inquiries Before Counterintelligence

Before building his law enforcement career, Felt was employed by the Federal Trade Commission. Assigned to investigate whether a toilet paper brand called "Red Cross" deceived consumers into assuming a charitable endorsement, he conducted extensive interviews across the country. The uninspiring research convinced him that citizens disliked discussing bathroom habits, prompting him to abandon the agency and seek alternative employment.

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Karen Silkwood

Karen Gay Silkwood was an American laboratory technician and labor union activist known for reporting health and safety concerns at a nuclear facility.

Uninformed Exposure on the Factory Floor

Karen Silkwood and other committee members were initially not adequately informed about the hazards of the materials they handled. Union official Mazzocchi discovered this gap and explained the direct connection between plutonium exposure and cancer, which took Silkwood completely by surprise. This revelation inspired her to challenge plant safety standards and organize worker education.

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Mordechai Vanunu in 2009

An aerial view of the Negev Nuclear Research Center in 1968

Frank Barnaby (pictured in 1982) helped verify Vanunu's story, and later testified for him as a defense witness.[40][41]

Meeting with Vanunu, Ali Kazak, and Bishop Riah Abu Assal in Jerusalem 2005

Mordechai Vanunu

Mordechai Vanunu is an Israeli former nuclear technician and peace activist who revealed details of Israel's nuclear weapons program to the British press in 1986.

Fifty-Seven Frames and a Glowing Departure Letter

Before resigning from the facility on 27 October 1985, Vanunu secretly smuggled in a camera and covertly took 57 photographs. Despite earlier interrogations regarding his political views, his departure was formally categorized as a layoff rather than a security dismissal. The facility even granted him $7,500 in severance pay alongside a formal reference letter praising his work.

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Logo of Enron Corporation (1997)

Sherron Watkins

Sherron Watkins is an American former corporate executive who discovered and reported the 2001 Enron scandal.

Eight Years Inside the Accounting Giant

Long before uncovering corporate misconduct, Watkins built her accounting foundation directly at Arthur Andersen starting in 1982. She spent eight years working across Andersen's Houston and New York offices as an auditor. After managing commodity-backed finance assets at MG Trade Finance, she officially joined Enron in 1993.

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Peter Buxtun

Peter Buxtun was an American epidemiologist and Public Health Service employee who blew the whistle to end the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.

Flight from Prague to an Oregon Farmstead

Peter Buxtun was born in Prague in 1937 to a family of Jewish and Czech descent. As Adolf Hitler and Nazism gained power, his family moved to the United States later that year. They settled on a farm in Oregon's Willamette Valley, establishing the personal foundation from which Buxtun would eventually embark on a career in public service.

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Frank Serpico

Frank Serpico is a retired New York City Police Department detective best known for whistleblowing on widespread police corruption.

Breaking the Silence on Front Pages

Serpico spent years hitting bureaucratic dead ends when attempting to report systemic graft through standard police channels. Momentum arrived only after he broke departmental silence by sharing his evidence publicly with the press. On April 25, 1970, a front-page story in The New York Times exposed the systemic corruption to the nation. In response to the growing scandal, Mayor John V. Lindsay formed a five-member investigative panel that became the Knapp Commission.

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Frances Haugen

Frances Haugen is an American whistleblower who disclosed tens of thousands of internal Facebook documents to regulators and the press in 2021.

A Personal Health Crisis Sparks an Anti-Disinformation Mission

Haugen's motivation to tackle online radicalization originated from an intimate domestic experience. In 2021, she told The Guardian that she wanted to address misinformation after losing a personal friend who had assisted with household recovery tasks. That individual had fallen into online forums and adopted conspiratorial beliefs involving white nationalism and the occult.

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