[HIB]WikiLeaks Airs Classified CIA Memo

WikiLeaks dug into its trove of unpublished leaks Wednesday to release a six-month-old classified CIA memo about foreign perception of the United States, underscoring that the secret-spilling website won’t be cowed by Pentagon threats, nor derailed by the Swedish legal problem now circling its leader. The memo, classified Secret, asks, “What if Foreigners See the United States as an ‘Exporter of Terrorism?’” Dated February 2, 2010, it was produced by the CIA’s “Red Cell,” a brainstorming team established in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks to provide an “alternative viewpoint” in the intelligence community. The release is the second CIA Red Cell document published by WikiLeaks. In March, the site published another Secret memo analyzing possible PR strategies to shore up public support in Europe for the war in Afghanistan. The new leak is less impactful. It notes several occasions on which Americans have joined up with, or provided financial aid to, extremist groups abroad, and asks how American foreign relations would suffer if the United States started being viewed as a terror-exporting state.

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