WikiLeaks' new home is in a former bomb shelter

WikiLeaks’ new home is in a former bomb shelter

Dec. 2, 2010 11:07 AM PT

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WikiLeaks, the website known for publishing top-secret government information, has found a new home for its trove of covert dossiers: inside a Cold War bomb shelter.

Truly the stuff of spy films, the site features solid steel doors and high-powered computers and is resilient against a nuclear attack. The ultra-secure bunker is buried inside the Pionen White Mountains in Sweden. Check out pictures here.

This is the home of Swedish Internet host Bahnhof AB.

It was built as the “heart of civil defense of Stockholm,” said Jon Karlung, a man described as the company’s chief executive in the YouTube video posted below.

WikiLeaks, which recently released troves of sensitive diplomatic cables, had been hosted by the online retailer Amazon.com Inc.’s servers. But on Wednesday, WikiLeaks posted on Twitter that it had been “ousted.”

“Free speech the land of the free – fine our $ are now spent to employ people in Europe,” a tweet said.

Bahnhof had previously hosted WikiLeaks, but the website abandoned the company in favor of Amazon when its computers had been attacked.

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-- W.J. Hennigan

Photos, from top: An entrance to Bahnhof’s ultra-secure facility. Credit: Bahnhof AB. In a photo illustration, WikiLeaks graphic is displayed on a laptop. Bebeto Matthews / Associated Press

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W.J. Hennigan

W.J. Hennigan covered the Pentagon and national security issues from Washington, D.C., before leaving the Los Angeles Times bureau in November 2017. While there, he reported on war, counter-terrorism, and the lives of American service members from more than two dozen countries and previously covered the aerospace and defense industry from Los Angeles. Hennigan earned awards from the National Press Club, the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation, and was a contributor to the Los Angeles Times coverage of the terror attacks in San Bernardino that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2016.