On 22 October, WikiLeaks released an email discussion where Greenpeace sought the help of John Podesta, top Hillary Clinton aide and her 2016 campaign manager, to help the organisation after the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi levied controls on the funding of the environmental organisation.

The discussion on the situation of Greenpeace in India took place between Podesta and Karen Sack, Managing Director of Ocean Unite, a non-governmental organisation that works towards ocean conservation, who had earlier worked with Greenpeace.

One of the mails concerned was a conversation that took place on 26 May 2015, where Sack wrote to Podesta: