Leaders in

Whistleblowing
Safia Traore

Daniel Ellsberg
In 1971, Daniel
Ellsberg, a former U.S.
military analyst
employed by the
RAND corporation,
leaked a top-secret
Pentagon study of the
U.S governments
rationale behind its
decisions during the
Vietnam War to the
Washington Post
Indirect leader

W. Mark Felt, a.k.a Deep Throat

He was a high ranking FBI
agent who leaked
information about the
Watergate scandal to
Washington Post
journalists Bob Woodard
and Carl Bernstein
Following Nixons
resignation in 1974, Felt
denied his role as a
whistleblower for thirty
years before revealing
himself in a 2005 Vanity
Fair article
Indirect leader

Bradley Manning
Bradley Manning, U.S
Army Pvt., downloading
a slew of military and
diplomatic information
to WikiLeaks.
Mannings leaks caused
a political disturbance
in both the U.S, and the
Middle East, where
they helped to catalyze
the Arab Spring
Indirect leader

Julian Assange
Editor-in-chief of
Wikileaks
To date is responsible for
over 1.2 million leaks
since the websites
creation in 2006
He spent a year, in 2013,
holed up in the
Ecuadorian embassy in
London, where he is
seeking political asylum
from charges against
him in Sweden
Direct leader