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WikiLeaks sold classified intel, claims website's co-founder - Selling secrets 'lucrative,' but 'usually cloaked in some kind of public benefit'

One of the early members and co-founders of the tight-knit, secretive WikiLeaks operation charged today that the website and its co-founder, Julian Assange, sold intelligence information the site had obtained. John Young, whose name was listed as the public face of WikiLeaks in the site's original domain registration, also alleged that the website is a lucrative business. Young said he left the site in 2007 due to concerns over its finances and that WikiLeaks was engaged in the selling of documents. Young was speaking today to WND senior reporter Aaron Klein on Klein's radio program on New York's WABC Radio. "I think it is a money-making operation, no doubt," Young said of WikiLeaks. "It follows the model of a number of other business intelligence operations. Selling intelligence information is a very lucrative field, and so they are following that model, usually cloaked in some kind of public benefit," he told Klein.

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