Vault 7 is WikiLeaks’ code name for the 8,761 pages of documents it released March, 2017. Although the story was covered by the mainstream media news outlets, what seemed to get lost in the shuffle were the ultimate implications: what did it really mean?

Initially, it was not clear what Vault 7 was going to be exactly. Beginning in early February of 2017, Julian Assange, the head of WikiLeaks, wrote several cryptic tweets previewing the document release. Although they were somewhat ambiguous, the tweets highlighted some important insights. The first tweet concerned the seed vault on a Norwegian island near the Arctic Circle which contains seeds from every known plant on earth, serving as a backup in case of a catastrophe on earth. However, future tweets about Vault 7 muddied the picture of exactly what it was. One tweet alluded to the infamous Nazi gold mine where the Germans supposedly stored all of their riches including all of the stolen items from their plundering throughout Europe, though much of the stash has since disappeared under mysterious circumstances.

Future tweets Assange posted further confused what Vault 7 would be by referencing U.S. spy posters, jet engine testing rooms, a welding photograph and a famous spy photo. Clearly, the mainstream media did not want to deal in speculation and decided to sidestep the topic rather than hypothesize and be proven embarrassingly wrong.

Once Julian Assange released his blizzard of documents, he communicated details about the infamous Clinton e-mails along with other government documents that were the main focus of the media right before the U.S. Presidential election.

Where did these documents originate from? According to Boston.com, Assange said that they were from “an isolated, high-security network situated inside the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence (CCI) in Langley, Virginia.” The Vault 7 releases all relate to the CIA and its surveillance tactics and cyber warfare.

Documents released by WikiLeaks discussed the capability of the U.S. government to enable smartphones and laptops to track an individual’s every move and word typed.

WikiLeaks subsequently released documents showing how the CIA uses malware software to its benefit and how it even tries to control world events.

Business Insider theorized that “The DNC ran with this information hypothesizing that the CIA hacked the DNC and framed Russia.”

Another theory is that “the FBI recently released emails from the Hillary Clinton’s investigation that the FBI will never be able to release”, according to Heavy.com.

Some observers speculated that future releases would include 9/11 conspiracy theories, illicit military involvement, and beyond.

The frightening implication about Vault 7 is that Assange is alluding to a shadow government (whether the CIA, a rogue division within it or outsiders) who are controlling world events. It almost seems like a Jason Bourne movie. Are they using the Nazi gold to benefit their agenda? Are they monitoring our every move? And what does this have to do with the seed vault that started the whole Twitter preview release? Is that alluding to some end game?

We are forced to wonder until WikiLeaks releases more documents and the truth becomes more clear. Stay tuned.