US Army Counterintelligence Center report on WikiLeaks

'Wikileaks.org – An Online Reference to Foreign Intelligence Services, Insurgents, or Terrorist Groups?' is a 32-page assessment dated 18 March 2008 by the Cyber Counterintelligence Assessments Branch of the US Army Counterintelligence Center, classified SECRET/NOFORN. It assessed the risks posed to the US Army by the publication of military material on WikiLeaks, citing documents we had posted on US equipment in Iraq and Afghanistan, the 2004 battle for Fallujah and the Guantánamo Bay detention camp.

The report described the trust of our sources as our 'center of gravity' and suggested that the identification, exposure and prosecution of insiders who leaked to us could damage that trust and deter others. It ended with a list of unanswered intelligence questions about WikiLeaks, including whether foreign intelligence services, insurgents or terrorist groups might fund or support us.

Written two years before I published it, the report is an early official record of US military concern about WikiLeaks; its publication preceded our large 2010 releases of US military and diplomatic records.

I published the report on 15 March 2010 without identifying our source. Contemporary reports described it as a leaked, classified Army intelligence document (Nextgov; The Register).