HAGERSTOWN, Maryland – A former Army counterintelligence agent says he helped point military authorities to a soldier who now is under scrutiny in connection with the massive leak of secret war records to a self-described whistle-blower website.
Timothy Webster, 30, of Santa Barbara, California, said a computer hacker based in Sacramento, California, telephoned him on May 26 with a hypothetical question: What would you do if a soldier told you he had leaked classified information?
Webster said the hacker, Adrian Lamo, eventually told him that Pfc. Bradley Manning, an Army intelligence analyst, had claimed he gave WikiLeaks website secret video of a 2007 US helicopter attack in Baghdad.
Lamo confirmed the account and said he also told Webster that Manning had confided he was planning to send tens of thousands of classified diplomatic reports to WikiLeaks, which is supported by a network of volunteers.
WikiLeaks posted more than 76,900 classified military and other documents, mostly raw intelligence reports from Afghanistan, on its website July 25.
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