Whistleblowers and researchers

Cooper, Cokely, Webb, Assange, Snowden and more, with their books and works. 17 points on the WW9 Atlas, oldest first, each with its source.

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• Jordan Maxwell1959–2022 · Researcher · Los Angeles, CaliforniaResearcher of religion, symbols and secret societies, lecturing from the 1960s. Works: That Old-Time Religion; Matrix of Power. Died 2022.Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Maxwell)
• Peter Buxtun: the Tuskegee study1966–1972 · Whistleblower · Tuskegee, AlabamaPublic Health Service worker Peter Buxtun protests the Tuskegee syphilis study from 1966; in 1972 he gives the story to AP reporter Jean Heller, ending a 40-year study that left Black men untreated. Died 2024.Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Buxtun)
• Frank Serpico1967–1971 · Whistleblower · New York CityNYPD officer who reported police corruption; shot during a drug raid in 1971; testified to the Knapp Commission. Book and film: Serpico.Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Serpico)
• Frances Cress Welsing1970–1991 · Researcher · Washington, D.C.Psychiatrist whose Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation (1970) and The Isis Papers (1991) read white supremacy as a global system driven by fear of genetic annihilation.Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Cress_Welsing)
• Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI1971 · Whistleblowers · Media, PennsylvaniaMarch 8, 1971: eight people break into the FBI field office in Media and mail the files to newspapers, exposing COINTELPRO, the FBI program against Black organizations and the left.Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Commission_to_Investigate_the_FBI)
• Daniel Ellsberg: the Pentagon Papers1971 · Whistleblower · Washington, D.C.1971: military analyst Daniel Ellsberg leaks the secret history of the Vietnam War. Works: Secrets (2002); The Doomsday Machine (2017).Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg)
• Mark Felt: Deep Throat1972–2005 · Whistleblower · Washington, D.C.FBI associate director who secretly guided Washington Post reporters on Watergate; revealed himself in 2005.Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Felt)
• Karen Silkwood1974 · Whistleblower · Crescent, OklahomaPlutonium plant worker and union activist who reported safety violations at Kerr-McGee; died in a car crash November 13, 1974 on her way to meet a reporter. Film: Silkwood (1983).Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Silkwood)
• Ivan Van Sertima1976 · Researcher · New Brunswick, New JerseyRutgers scholar whose They Came Before Columbus (1976) argued for African contact with the Americas before 1492, citing the Olmec heads; the mainstream rejects it. Works: They Came Before Columbus; Journal of African Civilizations.Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Van_Sertima)
• Steve Cokely1987–2012 · Researcher · Chicago, IllinoisChicago researcher and lecturer; special assistant to Mayor Eugene Sawyer, fired in 1988 after his lectures claimed Jewish doctors were spreading AIDS among Africans, which drew national condemnation. Best known for lectures on Sigma Pi Phi (the Boulé) and on the King assassination. Died April 11, 2Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Cokely)
• Milton William Cooper1991–2001 · Researcher · Eagar, ArizonaAuthor of Behold a Pale Horse (1991) and host of The Hour of the Time (shortwave, 1992-2001). On June 28, 2001 he said Osama bin Laden would soon be 'blamed' for a major attack on a U.S. city. Killed November 5, 2001 at his home by Apache County deputies trying to arrest him on assault charges, afteWikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_William_Cooper)
• Gary Webb1996–2004 · Journalist · Carmichael, CaliforniaSan Jose Mercury News reporter whose 1996 'Dark Alliance' series tied Contra-linked cocaine to South Central Los Angeles. Pushed out of his career; died December 10, 2004 of two gunshot wounds to the head, ruled suicide. Works: Dark Alliance (book, 1998). Film: Kill the Messenger (2014).Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb)
• Julian Assange2006–2024 · Publisher · Ecuadorian Embassy, LondonFounded WikiLeaks (2006); published the Collateral Murder video and the Iraq and Afghanistan war logs and diplomatic cables (2010). Inside the Ecuadorian embassy 2012-2019, then Belmarsh prison; freed in June 2024 after a plea deal in Saipan. Works: WikiLeaks archive; Cypherpunks (2012).Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange)
• John Kiriakou2007–2013 · Whistleblower · Langley, VirginiaCIA officer who in 2007 confirmed on TV that the agency waterboarded prisoners; the only CIA official jailed in connection with the torture program, for disclosing a colleague's name. Works: The Reluctant Spy (2010).Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kiriakou)
• Chelsea Manning2010–2017 · Whistleblower · Fort Leavenworth, KansasArmy intelligence analyst who leaked the war logs and cables to WikiLeaks in 2010; sentenced to 35 years, commuted in 2017. Works: README.txt (2022).Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Manning)
• Edward Snowden2013 · Whistleblower · Hong KongJune 2013: NSA contractor Edward Snowden gives journalists documents showing mass surveillance of phone and internet records; charged under the Espionage Act; lives in Russia. Works: Permanent Record (2019). Film: Citizenfour (2014).Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden)
• Reality Winner2017–2018 · Whistleblower · Augusta, GeorgiaNSA contractor who leaked a report on Russian election interference in 2017; sentenced to 63 months, the longest for an unauthorized leak to the media at the time.Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_Winner)