From Snowden to Crypto AG: the biggest leaks since 2010 - Business Insider

Edward Snowden may be one of the most infamous sources of leaked documents, but he's hardly the only one.For decades, the CIA used Swiss company Crypto AG, which it covertly owned, to spy on both adversaries and allies,The CIA called it "the intelligence coup of the century," but it's far from the only state secret to revealed in recent years.

Whistleblowers like Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning, by sharing confidential documents with journalists and organizations like WikiLeaks, have helped expose everything from the NSA's surveillance of millions of American citizens to offshore tax havens used by world leaders and the ultra wealthy. Chelsea Manning and WIkiLeaks exposed a side of the War in Afghanistan that the government didn't want people to see.

In July, it released extensive logs about the War in Afghanistan, which included evidence of at least 195 civilians killed by coalition forces, a secret special forces unit tasked with killing Taliban leaders without trial, and efforts to downplay Taliban forces' capabilities. Over 250,000 leaked diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks aired the United States' dirty laundry, including personal digs at foreign leaders.

To some, Edward Snowden is a whistleblower and patriot, and to others, a leaker and traitor. Either way, when the former NSA contractorin 2013, it blew the lid off some of the largest domestic spying operations in US history.

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