Julian Assange’s partner and mother of his two sons says she feared the CIA was also plotting to kill her.published by Yahoo news claimed that the CIA discussed plots to kill or kidnap the Australian who at the time was in hiding at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London’s Knightsbridge. Assange had sought asylum there to avoid being extradited to Sweden to face possible sexual assault charges.The dramatic plots were never followed through.
“I felt that maybe they might beat me up or try to kill me or something to get to Julian, because they were desperate to drive him out of the Embassy and into Belmarsh prison.”The CIA plotting was reportedly in response to fears that Assange was planning an escape of his own, possibly to Russia. Julian Assange and Stella Moris inside the Ecuadorian embassy, in an undated picture supplied by WikiLeaks.Although the CIA has a history of involvement in drone strikes against terrorism leaders in the Middle East, the US intelligence agency has backed away from organising the assassinations of public figures since the 1970s after revelations of those activities were publicised.
Assange has spent more than two years in British jails since the Ecuadorians revoked his asylum and invited British police to arrest him. Assange was imprisoned for skipping bail and hasThe United States has charged Assange under the Espionage Act. It lost its extradition bid after
latikambourke correction: Pompeo said the report would make for good fiction. Assange wasn't hiding, everyone knew he was in the embassy, and he was granted asylum there to avoid ONWARD extradition from Sweden to the US.
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