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 Mark Arbib, aka CIA Agent 007
Megan Levy
December 9, 2010 - 7:17AM



Mark Arbib: otherwise known as CIA Agent 007.

Visitors to the senator's Wikipedia page this morning may have been
surprised to learn his role as Minister for Social Housing and
Homelessness, among other portfolios, had been usurped by some
decidedly more colourful titles.

CIA agent, US Mole, Traitor, and US Embassy Hero were listed below the
right-wing Labor powerbroker's photograph on the popular online
encyclopedia following revelations by WikiLeaks today that Mr Arbib
was as a confidential contact of the United States embassy in
Canberra.
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A screen grab of the audit history of Mark Arbib's Wikipedia page this
morning, which fell victim to hackers. His biography was changed
(highlighted in red, after revision notes) to read: Click for more
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Arbib's Wikipedia page attacked

A screen grab of the audit history of Mark Arbib's Wikipedia page this
morning, which fell victim to hackers. His biography was changed
(highlighted in red, after revision notes) to read: "Mark Victor Arbib
(born 9 November 1971) is an Australian Traitor and spy for America.
He will join Benedict Arnold and Judas in the afterlife. He is a
public enemy and a villian to his people".

    * A screen grab of Mark Arbib's Wikipedia page this morning, which
fell victim to hackers. His title has been changed from
    * A screen grab of Mark Arbib's Wikipedia page this morning, which
fell victim to hackers. His title has been changed from
    * A screen grab of Mark Arbib's Wikipedia page this morning, which
fell victim to hackers. His title has been changed from
    * A screen grab of the audit history of Mark Arbib's Wikipedia
page this morning, which fell victim to hackers. His biography was
changed (highlighted in red, after revision notes) to read:

And the Wikipedia tinkering didn't stop there.

''Mark Victor Arbib (born 9 November 1971) is an Australian Traitor
and spy for America,'' his Wikipedia page read just after 4am AEDT
today.

''He will join Benedict Arnold and Judas in the afterlife. He is a
public enemy and a villain to his people.''

Benedict Arnold, who was also listed on Mr Arbib's page as his
predecessor, was a general during the American Revolutionary War who
later defected to the British Army.

A short time later his page was also altered to read: ''On 8 December
2010 it was revealed by the Wikileaks cables that Arbib had
traitorously met with US embassy officials on numerous occasions to
inform them of internal party and parliamentary workings.''

In fact, Mr Arbib's page was altered 18 times over six hours this
morning, before moderators reverted the page due to ''vandalism by
multiple editors''.

Just before 7am, his page was listed as ''protected'' due to
''excessive violations of the biographies of living persons policy''.

Anyone may submit an entry to Wikipedia and anyone may either add to,
or edit, any entry.

This has led to doubts about the accuracy of many entries, although
the moderators on the site are known to do their best to keep everyone
honest and objective.

In 2007 bureaucrat spin doctors in Canberra were "outed" for editing
Wikipedia entries critical of their bosses.