WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy

CAST OF CHARACTERS

WikiLeaks

MELBOURNE, NAIROBI, REYKJAVIK, BERLIN, LONDON, NORFOLK, STOCKHOLM

Julian Assange – WikiLeaks founder/editor

Sarah Harrison – aide to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

Kristinn Hrafnsson – Icelandic journalist and WikiLeaks supporter

James Ball – WikiLeaks data expert

Vaughan Smith – former Grenadier Guards captain, founder of the Frontline Club and Assange’s host at Ellingham Hall

Jacob Appelbaum – WikiLeaks’ representative in the US

Daniel Ellsberg – Vietnam war whistleblower, WikiLeaks supporter

Daniel Domscheit-Berg – German programmer and WikiLeaks technical architect (aka Daniel Schmitt)

Mikael Viborg – owner of WikiLeaks’ Swedish internet service provider PRQ

Ben Laurie – British encryption expert, adviser to Assange on encryption

Mwalimu Mati – head of anti-corruption group Mars Group Kenya, source of first major WikiLeaks report

Rudolf Elmer – former head of the Cayman Islands branch of the Julius Baer bank, source of second major WikiLeaks report

Smári McCarthy – Iceland-based WikiLeaks enthusiast, programmer, Modern Media Initiative (MMI) campaigner

Birgitta Jónsdóttir – Icelandic MP and WikiLeaks supporter

Rop Gonggrijp – Dutch hacker-businessman, friend of Assange and MMI campaigner

Herbert Snorrason – Icelandic MMI campaigner

Israel Shamir – WikiLeaks associate

Donald Böstrom – Swedish journalist and WikiLeaks’ Stockholm connection

The Guardian

LONDON

Alan Rusbridger – editor-in-chief

Nick Davies – investigative reporter

David Leigh – investigations editor

Ian Katz – deputy editor (news)

Ian Traynor – Europe correspondent

Harold Frayman – systems editor

Declan Walsh – Pakistan/Afghanistan correspondent

Alastair Dant – data visualiser

Simon Rogers – data editor

Jonathan Steele – former Iraq correspondent

James Meek – former Iraq correspondent

Rob Evans – investigative journalist

Luke Harding – Moscow correspondent

Robert Booth – reporter

Stuart Millar – news editor, guardian.co.uk

Janine Gibson – editor, guardian.co.uk

Jonathan Casson – head of production

Gill Phillips – in-house head of legal

Jan Thompson – managing editor

New York Times

NEW YORK, LONDON

Max Frankel – former executive editor

Bill Keller – editor

Eric Schmitt – war correspondent

John F Burns – London correspondent

Ian Fisher – deputy foreign editor

Der Spiegel

HAMBURG, LONDON

Georg Mascolo – editor-in-chief

Holger Stark – head of German desk

Marcel Rosenbach – journalist

John Goetz – journalist

El País

MADRID, LONDON

Javier Moreno – editor-in-chief

Vicente Jiménez – deputy editor

Other Media

Raffi Khatchadourian – New Yorker staffer and author of a major profile of Assange

Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen – Reuters news agency employees accidentally killed by US army pilots in 2007

David Schlesinger – Reuters’ editor-in-chief

Kevin Poulsen – former hacker, senior editor at Wired

Gavin MacFadyen – City University professor and journalist, London host to Assange

Stephen Grey – freelance reporter

Iain Overton – former TV journalist, head of Bureau of Investigative Journalism

Heather Brooke – London-based American journalist and freedom of information activist

Bradley Manning

Bradley Manning – 23-year-old US army private and alleged WikiLeaks source

Rick McCombs – former principal at Crescent high school, Crescent, Oklahoma

Brian, Susan, Casey Manning – parents and sister

Tom Dyer – school friend

Kord Campbell – former manager at Zoto software company

Jeff Paterson – steering committee member of the Bradley Manning support network

Adrian Lamo – hacker and online confidant

Timothy Webster – former US army counter-intelligence special agent

Tyler Watkins – former boyfriend

David House – former hacker and supporter

David Coombs – lawyer

Julian Assange

Christine Hawkins – mother

John Shipton – father

Brett Assange – stepfather

Keith Hamilton – former partner of Christine

Daniel Assange – Julian’s son

Paul Galbally – Assange’s lawyer during his 1996 hacking trial

Stockholm allegations / extradition

“Sonja Braun” – plaintiff; member of Brotherhood movement

“Katrin Weiss” – plaintiff; museum worker

Claes Borgström – lawyer for both women, former Swedish equal opportunities ombudsman and prominent Social Democrat politician

Marianne Ny – Swedish chief prosecutor and sex crimes specialist

Mark Stephens – Assange lawyer

Geoffrey Robertson, QC – Assange lawyer

Jennifer Robinson – lawyer in Mark Stephens’ office

Gemma Lindfield – lawyer acting for the Swedish authorities

Howard Riddle – district judge, Westminster magistrates court

Mr Justice Ouseley – high court judge, London

Government

Hillary Clinton – US Secretary of State

Louis B Susman – US ambassador in London

PJ Crowley – US assistant secretary of state for public affairs

Harold Koh – US state department’s legal adviser

Robert Gates – US defence secretary

Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles – former UK government special representative to Afghanistan and former ambassador to Kabul