Disclosure of Funding Sources and a Wikileaks

In what was considered a rare information on sources of funding and site Wikileaks caller information transparently, German Foundation announced that it had provided financial support to the site last year, increased by 585 thousand U.S. dollars came from donations collected for the site.

Wikileaks site and had been subjected to severe criticism accusing him of double standards because it calls for transparency of information, but when it comes to funding sources of the information available is vague and insufficient.
Years of contributions Foundation F. Holland, Germany issued a report saying that it received in 2010 amounted to $ 1.3 million in U.S. contributions to the site Wikileaks, and about five hundred thousand dollars of that amount has been donated during the month of publication and Wikileaks telegrams of American diplomacy in late November 2010.

The firm said it paid 143 thousand dollars for the site Wikileaks to finance the campaigns of leaking documents to the public, and to cover expenses such as “review and edit documents received, and montages of the material film, and analyze and arrange a large number of documents (…) and many other operations. “

Also indicated the institution that it paid 104 thousand dollars periodic allocations “for a number of project managers and activists, ” but the report did not mention the amounts paid to the site’s founder, Julian Osanj. Report released by F. Holland and posted on its website also stated that sixty thousand dollars paid to sustain the equipment and site Wikileaks, and 62 thousand to cover the costs of travel, “usually airline tickets in Economy Class” and 33 thousand to cover legal expenses.

As explained in terms of item to cover legal expenses, those amounts paid to cover the campaigns, the site had not been paid for “legal advice personal or defend someone before the courts”, which was considered a reference to attempts Osanj persuade Britain not to extradite him to Sweden to face the allegations against harassment Sexual.
Caught in the crossfire The publication and Wikileaks telegrams of American diplomacy put in the crossfire of many governments around the world, and there are a number of international companies have taken action against the site Wikileaks, s web site “Paypal” universally known in the field of e-payment credit card, to prevent Wikileaks from receipt of contributions financial, and after the site to modify the account so that you go contributions to the account of F. Holland by Paypal also close this account on 4 December 2010, but that the report of the Corporation between the four days of work in which the account was enough to collect donations and reached to 103 thousands of dollars, in addition to four hundred thousand came through bank transfers.

The Foundation has provided a breakdown of the sources of contributions according to the States showed that 35% of the donations came from the United States and 14% from Germany and 12% of the UK, and 6% from both Australia and Canada. The report is devoid of any information on the contributions the first month of 2010.

The F. Holland Foundation has called this name after the famous computer Baqrassan F. Holland, who was one of the founders of Chaos Computer Club in 1981, which is considered one of the oldest clubs computer hackers in the world. The club won the international fame when he managed to prove the existence of security gaps in German technical system, after the experts broke the club site and a German television carried him to a German bank accounts and withdrew large sums of it. Club returned the next day and the amounts between he did it to clarify the security gaps.

The latest leaks and last Sunday when Wikileaks published hundreds of documents on secret U.S. Guantanamo Bay and Al Qaeda.

Source: Associated Press+Al Jazeera