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A German publisher is set to release a behind-the-scenes title about whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, written by a former staffer.
According to publisher Ullstein, Inside WikiLeaks will "take [readers] into the heart of WikiLeaks" and "tell the story of WikiLeaks as it has not yet been heard." Its subtitle reads, "My time at the world’s most dangerous website."
Author Daniel Domscheit-Berg left WikiLeaks in September with several other engineers after taking issue with founder Julian Assange's use of large-volume leaks such as the Afghan Diaries and Iraq War Logs, according to a Forbes blog. In an interview with Der Spiegel http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,719619,00.html" target="_blank">newspaper he also criticised technical problems on the site and the difficulties caused by Assange's current trial for sexual assault.
A WikiLeaks spokesperson told Forbes that Domscheit-Berg "was suspended and then left of his own accord."
Inside WikiLeaks will be published in January.