Biography
Chelsea Manning is an American activist and former US Army intelligence analyst. Born Bradley Edward Manning on 17 December 1987 in Crescent, Oklahoma, Manning enlisted in the Army in 2007 and was deployed to Iraq.
In 2010 Manning was arrested for leaking hundreds of thousands of classified military and diplomatic documents to WikiLeaks. Convicted in 2013 on multiple counts including espionage, Manning was sentenced to 35 years' imprisonment before being pardoned in 2017. Manning publicly identified as a woman in 2013 and has since used the name Chelsea Manning.
Archive footage of Manning appears in the 2013 documentary We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, where Manning is credited as Self - WikiLeaks Source.
