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Permalink Reply by Central Scrutinizer on April 10, 2012 at 10:49pm

1971

Daniel Ellsberg

State Department

Along with Anthony Russo, leaked the Pentagon Papers, a secret account of the Vietnam War and its pretexts to The New York Times, which revealed endemic practices of deception by previous administrations, and contributed to the erosion of public support for the war.

Permalink Reply by Central Scrutinizer on April 12, 2012 at 11:23pm

1971-1981

Ryszard Jerzy Kukliński

Polish Army (during the Warsaw pact)

He passed top secret Warsaw Pact documents to the CIA between 1971 and 1981. These documents included strategic plans regarding the use of nuclear weapons, technical data about the Warsaw Pact armies' tanks and missiles, the whereabouts of anti-aircraft bases in Poland and German Democratic Republic, the methods used to avoid spy satellite detection of Warsaw Pact armies' military hardware, plans for the imposition of martial law in Poland among others. On May 23, 1984 Kukliński was sentenced to death, in absentia, by a military court in Warsaw. After the fall of communism in Europe, the sentence was changed to 25 years. In 1995 the court cancelled the sentence. The conclusion foollowed that Kuklinski was acting under special circumstances that warranted a higher need

Permalink Reply by Central Scrutinizer on April 15, 2012 at 6:01pm

1972

W. Mark Felt

FBI

Known only as Deep Throat until 2005, he leaked information about United States President Richard Nixon's involvement in Watergate.[2] The scandal would eventually lead to the resignation of the president, and prison terms for White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman and presidential adviser John Ehrlichman.

Permalink Reply by Central Scrutinizer on April 24, 2012 at 10:18pm

1973

Stanley Adams

Hoffmann-LaRoche

Discovered evidence of price fixing.[3] He passed the evidence to the European Economic Community, who erroneously leaked Adams' name back to Hoffman-LaRoche. Adams was arrested for industrial espionage by the Swiss government and spent six months in jail. He fought for ten years to clear his name and receive compensation from the EEC.

Permalink Reply by Central Scrutinizer on April 25, 2012 at 8:42am

1984

John Michael Gravitt

General Electric

Became the first individual in 40 years to file a qui tam lawsuit under the False Claims Act after the statute had been weakened in 1943. Gravitt, a machinist foreman, sued GE for defrauding the United States Department of Defense when GE began falsely billing for work on the B1 Lancer bomber. Gravitt was laid off following his complaints to supervisors about the discrepancies. The case of Gravitt v. General Electric and Gravitt's deposition to Congress led to federal legislation bolstering the False Claims Act in 1986. The amended Act made it easier for whistle-blowers to collect damages. Gravitt's suit proceeded under the 1986 amendments and GE settled the case for a then record $3.5 million.