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Chelsea Manning
Chelsea Manning Manning, shown in 2018, released thousands of documents to WikiLeaks. Convicted and sentenced to 35 years, much of her sentence was commuted.

Chelsea Manning

United States Army intelligence analyst
Also known as: Bradley Edward Manning
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Chelsea Manning (born December 17, 1987, Crescent, Oklahoma, U.S.) is a U.S. Army intelligence analyst who provided the Web site WikiLeaks with hundreds of thousands of classified documents in what was believed to be the largest unauthorized release of state secrets in U.S. history. Manning was a precocious child, demonstrating an aptitude for computers and excelling in academics. Manning was raised as a boy, and, as a young teenager, he told his mother and close...

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