Der Spiegel reporter Holger Stark tweets that an old cache of unreleased Wikileaks leak documents is "gone forever." Daniel Domscheit-Berg, who left Wikileaks after a heated dispute with founder Julian Assange, told Stark today "that he has destroyed it."

After quitting (or, depending on whose account you're reading, being forced to leave) from Wikileaks, Domscheit-Berg created a project called OpenLeaks and wrote a tell-all book: "Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website ."

An item about Domscheit-Berg's reported private key and document deletion forthcoming in Der Spiegel, I'd presume. More online now: Heise Online, Netzpolitik.org, WL Central.

An extensive statement on the matter from Julian Assange is here. From a quick read, he appears to believe the CIA is behind this, or that Domscheit-Berg is connected to the CIA in some manner.

Update: The Spiegel article is online. Wikileaks' Twitter account (presumably Assange) tweets that the purportedly deleted data included a complete copy of the US no-fly list, 5GB of Bank of America documents, leaked data from neo-Nazi organizations, and intercept data for US internet companies, then solicits financial donations.

A machine-translated excerpt from the Spiegel article follows.