China orchestrated the Google hack in December 2009, says secret document

WikiLeaks began releasing the cache of over 250,000 U.S. Department of State cables on Sunday which includes a document that proves China’s involvement into the December 2009 hack of Google's computer systems.

The New York Times was among a number of other media sources who was given early access to the documents. The paper reported that the U.S. Embassy in Beijing was told by an unidentified Chinese contact that China's Politburo "directed the intrusion into Google's computer systems.”

"The Google hacking was part of a coordinated campaign of computer sabotage carried out by government operatives, private security experts and Internet outlaws recruited by the Chinese government. They have broken into American government computers and those of Western allies, the Dalai Lama and American businesses since 2002, cables said," the Times reported.

Wikileaks is gradually releasing this latest set of cables, and the document in question was not available on WikiLeaks' Web site at press time.