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WikiLeaks "Top Secret" Mobile Collection Unit Stationed in Long Reach

The truck is emblazoned with "WikiLeaks TOP SECRET"


The WikiLeaks "Top Secret" Mobile Collection Unit truck was stationed in Long Reach on Wednesday morning.

The truck is the work of artist Clark Stoeckley and has no actual connection to the leak website WikiLeaks. Stoeckley has been attending the Bradley Manning trial at nearby Fort Meade.

The back of the truck is emblazoned with "Free Bradley Manning." Stoeckley provides updates about his truck on the Twitter accounty @WikiLeaksTruck.

Earlier this month, on Jul. 8, Stoeckley reported on Twitter he was pulled over by officers on the Fort Mead base.

"The cops were freaking out about my dummy cameras. They asked to look in the back and I said they would need a warrant for that," tweeted Stoeckley.

He tweeted they pulled him over because they believed he was disseminating "Top Secret WikiLeaks info", but after explaining he was attending the Manning trial, the officers let him go.

He even took a photo of one agent examining the truck.

During the Occupy Wall Street movement, Stoeckley used the truck as a courier for the protestors at Zuccotti Park. For his involvement, the truck was seized, searched and temporarily lost by the NYPD, according to the Huffington Post, but later returned to him.

Apparently Wednesday wasn't the first time someone spotted the truck in Long Reach. Local Twitter user @LadyHawke82 said she saw it there on Sunday.

Also odd was the Chevrolet Corvette hauling a small trailer parked behind the WikiLeaks Truck.





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