From "The Atlantic"
In a report in "The Atlantic," the author describes WikiLeaks as "a radical transparency organization that the American intelligence community believes was chosen by the Russian government to disseminate the information it had hacked."
In other words, an agency working with the Russians to influence the US election.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/the-secret-correspondence-between-donald-trump-jr-and-wikileaks/545738/
“It is time to call out WikiLeaks for what it really is, a non-state
hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like Russia,”
Reuters reports https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cia-wikileaks/cia-chief-calls-wikileaks-a-hostile-intelligence-service-idUSKBN17F2L8
