John Brennan: Wikileaks claim they will publish contents of CIA Director's emails

CIA Director John Brennan said some of the information in the censored '28 Pages' was "un-vetted" (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Wikileaks have claimed they have the obtained the emails of CIA Director John Brennan and intend to publish them soon.

Writing on Twitter, the official Wikileaks account said: "We have obtained the contents of CIA Chief John Brennan's email account and will be releasing it shortly."

There is no word yet on when the emails will be released, or what information they contain.

It was previously reported on the 19 October that Brennan's emails had been hacked, after the alleged hacker told the New York Post that he had found top secret files after breaking into Brennan's private email account.

The CIA did not confirm whether the hack happened, but said they would be investigating the case.

It is not known whether the emails due to be released by Wikileaks are from this hack, or from a separate case entirely.

Brennan took the top job in the CIA in March 2013, just a few months before revelations about the scale of US global surveillance became public.

The use of private email accounts by senior government figures has become a hot topic in the US recently, after presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton was found to have used a private email account during her time as Secretary of State, raising questions about the security of the private information the emails contained.

The release of Brennan's emails will be the first major Wikileaks publication since they released the intellectual property rights chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement on 9 Ocotber, which critics say will have "wide-ranging effects" on the internet, civil liberties and medical patents.