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  * CIA reportedly plotted to kidnap and assassinate Julian Assange

CIA reportedly plotted to kidnap and assassinate Julian Assange

  * 28 Sep 2021

Media reports that the CIA considered criminal acts in pursuit of
Julian Assange are deeply troubling.

Reacting to an investigation by Yahoo! News, NUJ general secretary
Michelle Stanistreet said:

    "The suggestion that US security services even considered
    kidnapping and murder on the streets of a trusted ally is
    chilling. That such acts might have been contemplated as a
    reaction to an individual who had simply published inconvenient
    truths is all the more troubling.

    "At Assange's extradition hearings, the US government did not
    contest evidence that individuals allegedly working on its behalf
    had bugged the Ecuadorian embassy in London, followed Assange's
    family and associates, and burgled the office of his lawyer. That
    context makes these fresh allegations all the more difficult to
    dismiss.

    "If true, the story from Yahoo! News' blows a hole in the case
    made by the US government that its attempt to extradite Assange
    is not politically motivated.

    "I am calling on the UK home secretary to explain whether the
    security services had any involvement in, or knowledge of, these
    plans.

    "Furthermore, it is clear that when the US appeal against the
    dismissal of its extradition application in respect of Assange is
    heard in October, it should be dismissed out of hand and its
    subject released at once."

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) general secretary,
Anthony Bellanger, said:

    "If these accusations are true, it would cast a long shadow over
    all independent journalism and they would once again prove that
    extraditing Assange to the United States would put his life at
    serious risk. We are calling for a full investigation and for the
    British authorities to release him immediately."

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