WikiLeaks salaries to be revealed in new report [View All]

Source: Wired Via CNN

By Kim Zetter, WIRED
December 2, 2010 -- Updated 21:42 GMT --

Expenses and salary earnings for paid WikiLeaks staff will be revealed for the first time in a report expected to be published by the end of this year, according to Kristinn Hrafnsson, a spokesman for the secret-spilling organization.

Hrafnsson, speaking Wednesday in London on a panel discussion at the Frontline Club, said that the Wau Holland Foundation -- the Berlin-based non-profit that handles most of the money donated to WikiLeaks -- will finally be detailing how WikiLeaks has spent funds from the more than $1 million it has raised in the last year. The report has been expected since August.

"At year end (Wau Holland) will give a breakdown of how they have reimbursed our costs and the staff salaries of people who are getting paid," Hrafnsson said. It's the first indication that some WikiLeaks staffers have been receiving salary payments for their work.

The report, if complete, should also detail what money WikiLeaks has paid out to date for the defense fund of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, who confessed in online chats to a former hacker that he downloaded classified documents from Army networks -- including 260,000 U.S. State Department cables -- and passed them to WikiLeaks. Manning is currently being held at the U.S. Marine Corps brig at Quantico, Virginia.

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