Chelsea Manning
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Chelsea Manning (Chelsea Elizabeth Manning, born Bradley Edward Manning, 1987) is an American soldier, who was convicted in 2013 of leaking large numnbers of classified documents to Wikileaks, and sentenced to 35 years in prison.
Chelsea Manning was born in Oklahoma. Her mother was Welsh and her father was American: they had met while he was in the US Navy and stationed at Cawdor Barracks near St David's, Pembrokeshire. They divorced in 2000, and Chelsea moved with her mother to Haverfordwest. In 2005 Chelsea returned to the USA and began living as a gay man. She joined the army in 2007.
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