7/29/2019 Ten Most Famous Whistleblowers in Recent History EXERCISE

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Ten most famous whistleblowers in recent historyadapted from http://postnoon.com/2013/06/12/the-insider/129980

Edward Snowden, a/an 1)____________CIA employee who released classified documents about NSAs top-secretsurveillance programme is the latest whistleblower to join the ranks of those who shook the world. Heres a list of otherswho spilled the beans and made a change.

Mark Felt WatergatePopularly known as Deep Throat, Mark Felt was the whistleblower who brought down the Richard Nixonadminstration in 1974. For almost thirty years, he repeatedly 2)____________his involvement with Bob Woodward andCarl Bernstein, who ran series of stories on the Watergate Scandal, but on May 31, 2005, he finally revealed that he wasindeed the Deep Throat. He was the associate director of FBI when he 3)____________crucial information to Bob and

Carl.Jeffrey Wigand Big TobaccoJeffrey Wigands audacity brought the big tobacco company to its 4)____________in the mid 90s, but the story had itsshare of twists and turns. He was the Vice President of Research and Development at Brown & Williamson TobaccoCorporation, till 1993 and in February 1996, he shocked everyone by revealing that the company intentionally5)____________its tobacco blend to increase the amount of Nicotine.

Sherron Watkins EnronSherron Watkins, the Vice President of Corporate Development at Enron Corporation, was the whistleblower whodiscovered massive accounting 6)____________ in financial reports of the company. Within a year after her claimsbecame public, Enron went bankrupt and Arthur Andersen, one of the largest auditing companies, lost all its7)____________.

Coleen Rowley 9/11Coleen Rowley, a former FBI agent, testified for the 9/11 commission about how the personnel at FBI Headquarters8)____________ the information given to them before 9/11 about a suspected terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui, who wasinvolved in a hijacking similar to that of 9/11. Coleen Rowley, along with Sherron Watkins and Cynthia Cooper, wasnamed as Person of the Year by Time Magazine in 2002.

Satyendra Dubey - Highway constructionSatyendra Dubey was a project director at the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI). An IIT-Kanpuralumni, he

joined NHAI in 2002 and soon, he began fighting against the road contract mafia. When he was 9)____________ toBihar in August 2003, he once again began fighting against large scale corruption. In November that year, he wasmurdered in Gaya.

S Manjunath Oil adulterationAn MBA graduate from IIM-Lucknow, Shanmugam Manjunath joined Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) as a marketingmanager. While working in Lucknow, he sealed two petrol pumps in Lakhimpur Kheri when he found out that adulteratedfuel was being sold at these petrol pumps. On November 19, 1995 he conducted a surprise 10)____________on thepetrol pump. Soon, he was found dead. The incident triggered massive protests across the country.

Bradley Manning WikiLeaks11)____________ the 21st centurys Tiananmen Square Tank Man, Bradley Manning, a US Army soldier, wasresponsible forthe biggest ever leak of classified documents related to airstrikes in Iraq, Afghanistan and thousands ofUS diplomatic cables, that were later published by WikiLeaks. Manning was arrested in May 2010, after he was12____________a computer hacker Adrian Lamo. In February 2013, he pleaded guilty to 10 of the 22 charges leviedagainst him.

Sean Hoare News Of the WorldSean Hoare, a journalist who worked for the UK-based tabloid, News of the World, 13)____________a vital role inexposing the phone hacking scandal that rocked the UK in 2011. Sean, who worked with the newspaper for nearly nineyears, in a shocking expose on his tabloid told reporters Don Van Natta, Jo Becker and Graham Bowley of New YorkTimes newspaper that Andy Coulson, the former editor of News of the World, actively encouraged him to hack phones ofcelebrities to get a 14)____________. Following the news report, Sean Hoare was interrogated by Scotland Yard which

in turn led to a major scandal. On 18 July, 2011, in a remarkable turn of events, Sean Hoare was found dead in hisapartment in Watford.

Ingvar Bratt BoforsIngvar Bratt, an Swedish engineer who used to work with Bofors, was the 15)____________source to Cecilia Zadig, a

journalist who was investigating more about the sale of weapons by Bofors to Dubai and Bahrain. Soon after Boforsfound out that Ingvar was the whistleblower, he was fired from his job, but his revelations had 16)____________consequences, especially in India where several politicians were accused of receiving kickbacks from Bofors for winninga bid to supply 155 mm field Howitzers to India.

Cynthia Cooper WorldComIn 2002, Cynthia Cooper, along with her colleagues Gene Morse and Glyn Smith, unearthed the biggest accounting fraudin US history which ultimately pushed WorldCom to bankruptcy. Back then, Cynthia was the Vice President of Internal

Audit at WorldCom and they smelt something was 17)____________when Gene Morse found an accounting entry for$500 million in computer18)____________. By June, 2002, they figured out that WorldCom had 19)____________a

fraud to the tune of $3.8 billion.

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