cryptogon.com CIAs Secret War Plans Against WikiLeaks

September 26th, 2021

Via: Yahoo News:

In 2017, as Julian Assange began his fifth year holed up in Ecuadors embassy in London, the CIA plotted to kidnap the WikiLeaks founder, spurring heated debate among Trump administration officials over the legality and practicality of such an operation.

Some senior officials inside the CIA and the Trump administration even discussed killing Assange, going so far as to request sketches or options for how to assassinate him. Discussions over kidnapping or killing Assange occurred at the highest levels of the Trump administration, said a former senior counterintelligence official. There seemed to be no boundaries.

The conversations were part of an unprecedented CIA campaign directed against WikiLeaks and its founder. The agencys multipronged plans also included extensive spying on WikiLeaks associates, sowing discord among the groups members, and stealing their electronic devices.

While Assange had been on the radar of U.S. intelligence agencies for years, these plans for an all-out war against him were sparked by WikiLeaks ongoing publication of extraordinarily sensitive CIA hacking tools, known collectively as Vault 7, which the agency ultimately concluded represented the largest data loss in CIA history.

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