Re: [New post] Wikileaks Russian Ties: Julian Assange’s Forgotten Trips To Moscow

[David Morris]

Thanks, Jerky.

On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 6:47 PM Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I hate to contradict, but in terms of track record, Louise Mensch is NOT
> "more often right than wrong", particularly in her predictions. In fact,
> the opposite is the case.
>
> However, much of the information she presents isn't based on her own
> reporting, and what she delivers here about Assange's biographical details
> and his temporal/geographical footprint squares with what I've learned
> about him over the years via mainstream and somewhat off-mainstream sources
> (nothing clandestine, "sexy" or otherwise impressive, source-wise), so if
> anyone were to ask me whether it's safe to trust this information (and I
> claim no authority other than that of a decently informed, long-time
> observer of the milieu and its denizens), I'd say yes.
>
> Jerky
>
> On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 7:30 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Ms Mensch is more often right than wrong as I read her spottily. She
> seems
> > to save single sources ok much/ most of it which is why she is anathema
> > within established journalism.
> > Yet, sources in Intel seem to inform her of much truth.
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> > > On Jan 3, 2020, at 7:20 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > What he said...;-)
> > >
> > > Www.keithdavismusic.com
> > >
> > >> On Jan 3, 2020, at 6:37 PM, Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk>
> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> 
> > >> Given the source of the information it might be sensible to look for
> > some other verification before assuming the facts are accurately
> presented.
> > Louise Mensch who runs Patribotics has form, to say the least. She was a
> > rising star in the Conservative Party here before she resigned from
> > Parliament and decamped to New York.
> > >>
> > >> And a happy (?) new year to you all.
> > >>
> > >> Mike
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>> On 03/01/2020 20:36, David Morris wrote:
> > >>> When you say you don't ascribe to this article, does that mean you
> > doubt
> > >>> the faces presented re. Assange's history w Russia?  Like, this might
> > be
> > >>> fake facts?
> > >>>
> > >>>> On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 2:18 PM Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >>>>
> > >>>> I don’t endorse this. I just saw it
> > >>>> and thought it might spark some conversation.
> > >>>> kd
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Www.keithdavismusic.com
> > >>>>
> > >>>>>> On Jan 3, 2020, at 9:59 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> 
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> Www.keithdavismusic.com
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> Begin forwarded message:
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> From: Patribotics <donotreply at wordpress.com>
> > >>>>>> Date: January 3, 2020 at 12:51:15 AM EST
> > >>>>>> To: kbob42 at gmail.com
> > >>>>>> Subject: [New post] Wikileaks Russian Ties: Julian Assange’s
> > Forgotten
> > >>>> Trips To Moscow
> > >>>>>> 
> > >>>>>> New post on Patribotics
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> Wikileaks Russian Ties: Julian Assange’s Forgotten Trips To Moscow
> > >>>>>> by Louise Mensch
> > >>>>>> Julian Assange, who rang in the New Year in Her Majesty's Prison,
> > >>>> Belmarsh, appears to have spent a significant amount of time in
> > Russia in
> > >>>> the 1990s. Additionally, he lived in Paris with a Russian-speaking
> > >>>> 'girlfriend' and was part of group of hackers intimately connected
> > with
> > >>>> Russia and the then KGB as a teenager. Assange has also admitted to
> > being
> > >>>> deeply steeped in Russian culture, reading Russian and pro-Russian
> > Ukranian
> > >>>> authors, and even being devoted to Russian vintage children's
> > cartoons.
> > >>>>>> Biographies and profiles of Assange have, inexplicably, glossed
> over
> > >>>> the Wikileaks' founder's youth and activities prior to starting
> > Wikileaks.
> > >>>> As attention focused on Assange's ties to Russia in 2016, and even
> > before
> > >>>> then, as Assange fled to the Ecuadorean Embassy while dodging a
> trial
> > for
> > >>>> rape in Sweden, countless biographies and profiles of Assange have
> > been
> > >>>> published.
> > >>>>>> Bizarrely, most of them completely omitted Assange's clearly
> > extensive
> > >>>> ties to Russian intelligence, that go back as far as his early years
> > as a
> > >>>> proto-hacker, part of an international group of 'phone phreakers'.
> The
> > >>>> general impression has been left of Wikileaks as an idealistic
> > organization
> > >>>> that somehow 'went wrong' as Assange's anti-Americanism drove him
> > into the
> > >>>> arms of the Kremlin, as an 'unwitting idiot'. The facts, however,
> > make it
> > >>>> clear that this approach gives the Australian both too much, and too
> > >>>> little, credit. Too much, in that it assumes Assange meant no harm,
> > and was
> > >>>> merely tricked by the GRU into his assault on American democracy;
> too
> > >>>> little, in that it underestimates the length and witting depth of
> > Assange's
> > >>>> treacherous association with Russian intelligence, dating back to
> the
> > days
> > >>>> of Yeltsin and the KGB.
> > >>>>>> Biographies and profiles such as those on Wikipedia, The New
> Yorker,
> > >>>> the Guardian, (by no less an authority than David Leigh and Luke
> > Harding),
> > >>>> the Independent, and several others this author found simply omit,
> and
> > >>>> apparently do not even know about, Assange's travels to Russia
> before
> > >>>> founding Wikileaks and his connections to Russian intelligence. The
> LA
> > >>>> Times profile of Assange, for example, published last spring, says
> > only:
> > >>>>>> Born in 1971, Assange’s coming of age coincided, somewhat
> fatefully,
> > >>>> with the dawn of the internet era. He showed an early talent for
> > >>>> puzzle-solving and mathematics that swiftly morphed into a knack for
> > >>>> computer programming and coding – and for hacking, which led to a
> > brush in
> > >>>> his 20s with Australian law enforcement.
> > >>>>>> A 2013 CNN 'Fast Facts' on Assange simply starts in 2006, with the
> > >>>> foundation of Wikileaks. The New York Times' timeline on Assange and
> > the
> > >>>> United States likewise starts in 2010, with the Chelsea Manning
> (then
> > known
> > >>>> as Bradley Manning) link to Wikileaks.
> > >>>>>> In 1996, Julian Assange was tried for hacking in Australia. In
> > 2006, he
> > >>>> founded Wikileaks.  In the ten years in between, according to almost
> > all
> > >>>> public biographies, Assange 'lived quietly' in Melbourne, attending,
> > then
> > >>>> dropping out of, university. Nothing to see here. In their book on
> > Assange,
> > >>>> "Wikileaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy", David Leigh and
> > Luke
> > >>>> Harding, both highly respected Guardian journalists, describe some
> > (not
> > >>>> all) of Assange's programming activities after the trial and before
> > >>>> Wikileaks, but they also mistakenly report:
> > >>>>>> As early as 1999 he came up with the idea of a leakers' website,
> he
> > >>>> said, and registered the domain name 'Wikileaks[.]org'. But
> > otherwise, he
> > >>>> didn't do much about it. Assange was living in Melbourne and quietly
> > >>>> raising his son.
> > >>>>>> That wasn't true. In 1998 and 1999, Julian Assange was traveling
> in
> > >>>> Eastern Europe, Russia and China. And since 1999 is when "he came up
> > with
> > >>>> the idea of a leakers' website" this seems galactically significant.
> > >>>>>> Julian Assange Pre-Wikileaks: Money and Moscow
> > >>>>>> According to Assange himself, in a now-deleted 2011 interview
> > >>>> originally hosted on Wikileaks,  and preserved on archives of both
> > >>>> Wikileaks mirrors and other sites, he was a frequent visitor to
> > Moscow, and
> > >>>> was intimately familiar with its system and even its TV shows:
> > >>>>>> When I was in Russia in the 1990s, I used to watch NTV in Moscow.
> > NTV
> > >>>> was the freest TV I have ever seen. I don’t know if you’re familiar
> > with
> > >>>> Spitting Image. It was a British public satire that was very
> > politically
> > >>>> aggressive, but NTV and other Russian channels had far more guts.
> And
> > that
> > >>>> was because at that time, Russia had something like 10 independent
> > points
> > >>>> of power. It had the army. It had the remnants of the KGB and the
> > external
> > >>>> KGB, which ended up becoming the SVR. It had Yeltsin, and his
> > daughter, and
> > >>>> that mob. It had some broader mish-mash of bureaucracy that was left
> > over
> > >>>> from the Soviet Union. And it had seven oligarchs. That meant, in
> > terms of
> > >>>> media control, the state plus the oligarchs with own their own
> > independent
> > >>>> media. As a result, you could actually put out almost anything you
> > wanted
> > >>>> under the patronage or protection of one of these groups. And when
> > Putin
> > >>>> came in, he tamed the oligarchs. Some were arrested, some had their
> > assets
> > >>>> seized, and some were exiled. The result was that they fell in under
> > >>>> Putin’s centralized patronage pyramid. The ownership of the TV
> > stations
> > >>>> also reined popular democracy under Putin’s pyramid. And now, in
> > order to
> > >>>> get anything of scale done in Russia, you have to have a sponsor in
> > the
> > >>>> pyramid somewhere.
> > >>>>>> Assange carried this deep knowledge with him into Wandsworth
> prison,
> > >>>> where Russian authors and popular culture inspired him:
> > >>>>>> As for inspirational texts, well, there isn’t one in particular.
> But
> > >>>> when I was in prison, I read Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,
> > and
> > >>>> I’ve been a long-term appreciator of Solzhenitsyn and other Russian
> > >>>> literature....Pasternak and Dostoyevsky, and yes, Tolstoy when I was
> > >>>> younger, and Bulgakov, though he’s a Ukrainian who wrote in Russian.
> > Cancer
> > >>>> Ward is a wonderful book. Solzhenitsyn was in a cancer ward after
> > being
> > >>>> released from prison and exiled in Siberia, and he draws parallels
> > between
> > >>>> experiences in a Soviet labor camp and a hospital ward, but also
> uses
> > these
> > >>>> as a way to get at power relationships within a Sovietized state.
> But
> > >>>> having cancer in a cancer ward is even worse than being locked in
> the
> > >>>> basement of Wandsworth Prison in solitary confinement. So I found it
> > oddly
> > >>>> cheering.
> > >>>>>> Asked what 'the most beautiful story you ever heard' was, Assange
> > says:
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> I’m very fond of Russian children’s cartoons from the 1970s and
> 80s.
> > >>>> These cartoons embody the highest representation of childhood and
> > beauty
> > >>>> and innocence and curiosity—all together. This is terribly
> > underappreciated
> > >>>> in Western society in this particular period. For something that I
> > find
> > >>>> beautiful, this is what comes to mind instantly.
> > >>>>>> Russophilia is not, of course, a crime. But the facts on Assange's
> > >>>> history indicate actual recruitment. Several biographers did go as
> > far as
> > >>>> to note his co-byline on the early history of a hacking group he was
> > >>>> involved in, "Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession".
> > This
> > >>>> includes a limited amount on himself, "Mendax", as his nom-de-phreak
> > had
> > >>>> it. But Assange is an author of the book, and thus intimately
> > involved with
> > >>>> all the hackers in it. Take this early mention of Germany's "Chaos
> > Computer
> > >>>> Club":
> > >>>>>> Pengo... a well-known hacker with links to the German hacking
> group
> > >>>> called the Chaos Computer Club.... Pengo had been involved with
> > people who
> > >>>> sold US military secrets - taken from computers - to the KGB.
> > >>>>>> Oh. Well, OK then.
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> His real interest was in hacking, not spying. The Russian
> connection
> > >>>> simply enabled him to get access to bigger and better computers.
> > Beyond
> > >>>> that, he felt no loyalty to the Russians.
> > >>>>>> More on the 'Chaos Computer Club' and its KGB assets shortly. But
> > >>>> Assange also writes a long chapter on 'Anthrax', who was involved in
> > human
> > >>>> trafficking and liked, in his off-time, to listen to Radio Moscow.
> > >>>>>> In 1996 Assange was tried in Australia for a string of hacking
> > >>>> offenses, including of United States military sites, the same
> targets
> > his
> > >>>> KGB-connected friends in the Chaos Computer Club had hit. He was
> > convicted,
> > >>>> and, essentially, let off with a warning. He was 25.
> > >>>>>> Most Assange biographies gloss over the next few years. But that
> is
> > a
> > >>>> horrible dereliction of duty. As soon as the trial was over,
> Assange,
> > >>>> formerly an indigent teenage hacker, met his biological father again
> > and
> > >>>> "came into money". This money was large enough to allow him to
> travel
> > all
> > >>>> over the world:
> > >>>>>> Well, I’ve been traveling all over the world on my own since I was
> > >>>> twenty-five, as soon as I had enough money to do it.
> > >>>>>> Not only, even before skating on charges of attacking the US
> > military,
> > >>>> did Assange get enough cash to travel the world, an unnamed "Italian
> > real
> > >>>> estate investor" [sic] gave him and his anti-US-military
> > co-conspirator
> > >>>> "Trax" enough money to buy a mainframe computer at an Italian
> > university.
> > >>>>>> Note how this models what Assange wrote of 'Pengo' - the Russians
> > gave
> > >>>> Pengo access to 'bigger and better computers'
> > >>>>>> In 1992 Mendax and Trax teamed up with a wealthy Italian
> real-estate
> > >>>> investor, purchased La Trobe University's mainframe computer
> > (ironically, a
> > >>>> machine they had been accused of hacking) and started a computer
> > security
> > >>>> company. The company eventually dissolved when the investor
> > disappeared
> > >>>> following actions by his creditors.
> > >>>>>> Uh-huh.
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> It is genuinely amazing that the Guardian would wrongly report in
> > 2011,
> > >>>> of the time when Assange himself said he had enough money to travel
> > the
> > >>>> world, that:
> > >>>>>> Convicted but leniently treated, Assange was now an unemployed
> > father
> > >>>> in Melbourne surviving on a single parent pension.
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> Assange's Choice of Travel - Moscow, St. Petersburg, Irkutsk,
> > Beijing
> > >>>>>> In 1998 Assange was in the long period of traveling that he
> admitted
> > >>>> started in 1996. According to the biography he refused to allow to
> be
> > >>>> published, which has not come out in e-book, he announced some few
> of
> > the
> > >>>> destinations in a round-robin email for his "international" group of
> > >>>> hackers: Frankfurt, Berlin, Poland, Moscow, St. Petersburg,
> Irtkutsk,
> > and
> > >>>> Beijing.
> > >>>>>> If anyone feels like getting together for beer, vodka, Siberian
> bear
> > >>>> steak.... just let me know
> > >>>>>> It is apparent, then, that several of his round-robin emailees
> > lived in
> > >>>> Russia. It would be pretty hard to meet him for Siberian bear steak
> in
> > >>>> Irkutsk if they did not.
> > >>>>>> The Chaos Computer Club, the KGB, and... the 2016 Election?
> > >>>>>> Starting in Frankfurt and Berlin was also significant. The Chaos
> > >>>> Computer Club was the one Assange wrote about back in 1997 -
> > admitting one
> > >>>> of his friends there had sold US military secrets to the KGB.
> > >>>>>> But what is this? A 2018 Washington Post profile of Andy
> > Muller-Maguhn,
> > >>>> going to visit Assange, says that in 2016, Muller-Maguhn:
> > >>>>>> ...typically brings Assange books, clothes or movies. Once in
> 2016,
> > he
> > >>>> delivered a thumb drive that he says contained personal messages for
> > the
> > >>>> WikiLeaks founder, who for security reasons has stopped using email.
> > >>>>>> These visits have caught the attention of U.S. and European spy
> > chiefs,
> > >>>> who have struggled to understand how Assange's organization operates
> > and
> > >>>> how exactly WikiLeaks came to possess a trove of hacked Democratic
> > Party
> > >>>> emails that the group released at key moments in the 2016
> presidential
> > >>>> campaign.
> > >>>>>> No, ma'am, Ms. Nakashimae - US and European spy chiefs have no
> > problems
> > >>>> whatsoever understanding how Wikileaks operates - it's a lazy as
> hell
> > >>>> mainstream media that overlooked how Wikileaks operates.
> > >>>>>> The piece continues:
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> The roots of Müller-Maguhn's relationship with Assange trace back
> to
> > >>>> his teenage years in the 1980s when his walk to school in Hamburg
> > took him
> > >>>> past the offices of the Chaos Computer Club.
> > >>>>>> Oh.
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> In a Herculean effort to whitewash Muller-Maguhn, the profile then
> > goes
> > >>>> on to admit that the German works for the Chinese state and has
> > attended
> > >>>> conferences in Moscow.
> > >>>>>> One of his clients is in China, a state known for its suppression
> of
> > >>>> the Internet and its surveillance of dissidents....In recent years,
> > >>>> Müller-Maguhn's consulting and advocacy work has carried him all
> over
> > the
> > >>>> world, including Moscow, where in 2016 and 2017 he attended a
> security
> > >>>> conference organized by the Russian Defense Ministry.
> > >>>>>> Riigggghhhhhht. (Dr. Evil voice)
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> In the superseding espionage indictment of Assange, the Chaos
> > Computer
> > >>>> Club is mentioned by name.
> > >>>>>> In 2007, Assange admitted he had a "girlfriend" in Paris helping
> him
> > >>>> build the Wikileaks website by translating Russian for him:
> > >>>>>> I had a girlfriend who would come round. She just brought food
> and I
> > >>>> stayed at the computer. She spoke Russian, and would sometimes lend
> a
> > hand
> > >>>> with that
> > >>>>>> Why would Mr. Assange need Russian translated to build the
> Wikileaks
> > >>>> website? Before he'd received a single, solitary leak?
> > >>>>>> Because Russians were helping him build it and directing the
> build.
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> Timeline of Assange's Russian Connections
> > >>>>>> Here is a partial timeline of Julian Assange's Russian
> connections,
> > as
> > >>>> demonstrated in this piece from open source research. Taken as a
> > whole, it
> > >>>> should be amply clear that Assange has been working, knowingly, with
> > >>>> Russian intelligence since the days of the KGB; that he has been
> > funded by
> > >>>> outlets working for Russia; that the 'Chaos Computer Club' is an
> > offshoot
> > >>>> of the GRU, best considered as contractors to Russian and Chinese
> > >>>> intelligence; and that Wikileaks was a Russian-intelligence approved
> > effort
> > >>>> to use naive Western hackers and activists to help Russian military
> > >>>> intelligence access United States Military facilities.
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> This blog has long exclusively reported that the Mueller Grand
> Jury
> > >>>> case is 'United States vs Wikileaks, et al,' and that the
> > Government's case
> > >>>> is that Wikileaks has always been a witting partner of the GRU. Once
> > this
> > >>>> is proven, the Trump campaign's partnership with Wikileaks becomes a
> > >>>> legally chargeable partnership with the GRU, and DOJ can and will
> > charge
> > >>>> them with collusion.
> > >>>>>> Julian Assange's completely forgotten and overlooked trips to
> Moscow
> > >>>> and other Russian cities, and the influx of money he received after
> > hacking
> > >>>> the US military, entirely support our reporting and analysis. In
> > their book
> > >>>> on Wikileaks, David Leigh and Luke Harding describe the meeting the
> > paper's
> > >>>> journalists had with a triumphant Assange just before the Guardian
> > >>>> dutifully published the leaks the GRU and Assange had jointly taken
> > from
> > >>>> Chelsea Manning.
> > >>>>>> The partners again headed for dinner in the Rotunda restaurant
> > beneath
> > >>>> the Guardian offices... Here, as the journalists sank pints of
> > Pilsner...
> > >>>> Assange confided he was thinkin
> > >>>>>> g about going to Russia. Russia was an odd choice - especially in
> > the
> > >>>> light of soon-to-be-published cables describing it as a 'virtual
> mafia
> > >>>> state'.....
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> But, of course, Russia was not at all an 'odd choice', and had the
> > >>>> Guardian done any research whatsoever into the man they were
> > assisting and
> > >>>> his motives, they would have realized that.
> > >>>>>> Later, Guardian journalists would hide behind their opposition to
> > the
> > >>>> Russian anti-semite and open Russian intelligence asset Israel
> > Shamir, who
> > >>>> scorned to hide his affiliation with, and payment by, Assange and
> > >>>> Wikileaks. 'Oh look, as soon as we realized Assange was deep in with
> > >>>> Russian racists, we pulled back.' But by then, the damage to Western
> > >>>> security had been done, by Russia, with their willing assistance.
> > >>>>>> The Guardian, the New York Times, and all the other Western
> > >>>> institutions who unwittingly helped Russian intelligence attack
> their
> > own
> > >>>> nations by giving Assange such a platform, now had a built-in
> > disincentive
> > >>>> to ever really examine the origins of Wikileaks and the motivations
> > of its
> > >>>> deeply repellent founder. Because if they "committed journalism", as
> > >>>> Assange apologists like to say, they would have to report that they,
> > >>>> themselves, had been so-called 'useful idiots'. And a headline like
> > that is
> > >>>> unlikely to make the front page.
> > >>>>>> Timeline of Assange's Early Russian Connections
> > >>>>>> Here is a partial timeline of Julian Assange's Russian
> connections,
> > as
> > >>>> demonstrated in this piece from open source research. Taken as a
> > whole, it
> > >>>> should be amply clear that Assange has been working, knowingly, with
> > >>>> Russian intelligence since the days of the KGB; that he has been
> > funded by
> > >>>> outlets working for Russia; that the 'Chaos Computer Club' is an
> > offshoot
> > >>>> of the GRU, best considered as contractors to Russian and Chinese
> > >>>> intelligence; and that Wikileaks was a Russian-intelligence approved
> > effort
> > >>>> to use naive Western hackers and activists to help Russian military
> > >>>> intelligence access United States Military facilities.
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> 1971 - Julian Assange born.
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> Late 80s - Julian Assange becomes part of an international group
> of
> > >>>> hackers including the Chaos Computer Club in Germany
> > >>>>>> 1986 - 1988 - 'Pengo', of the CCC, has been hacking the US
> military
> > and
> > >>>> selling its secrets to the KGB for 'access to better computers'.
> > Assange
> > >>>> gleefully records this in his book. Pengo hands himself in to German
> > >>>> authorities after his fellow hacker of the US, Habgard, who also
> sold
> > >>>> secrets to the KGB is burned alive before a court case, presumably
> > because
> > >>>> the KGB thought he would talk.
> > >>>>>> 1989 - Julian Assange hacks NASA with the WANK worm, dropping the
> > name
> > >>>> of Midnight Oil into his code.
> > >>>>>> 1989-1991 Assange befriends another hacker, Anthrax, an antisemite
> > who
> > >>>> likes to listen to Radio Moscow
> > >>>>>> 1991 - Assange hacks the US military Milnet and gets caught, but
> the
> > >>>> trial date takes several years
> > >>>>>> 1992 - Assange and a fellow hacker suddenly come into enough money
> > to
> > >>>> buy a huge mainframe computer at an Italian University
> > >>>>>> 1992-1996 Assange starts reading extensively in Russian literature
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> 1996 - Assange is convicted but let off by an Australian judge,
> > despite
> > >>>> having done extensive damage to the US military
> > >>>>>> 1996 - Assange comes into a large amount of money and begins
> > >>>> extensively to travel the world alone. He sets up bulletin boards
> for
> > >>>> international hackers, including hackers in Germany with the Chaos
> > Computer
> > >>>> Club, the KGB's partners, and Russia
> > >>>>>> 1997 - Assange writes and publishes his self-laudatory book about
> > >>>> hackers, from which many of the above facts are sourced
> > >>>>>> 1990s in general - Assange spends enough time in Moscow to become
> > >>>> intimately familiar with their TV shows and cartoons
> > >>>>>> 1998 - Assange sends a 'round robin email' to his string of hacker
> > >>>> friends asking to meet them in Berlin 'or Siberia' . He announces he
> > will
> > >>>> be visiting Germany, then Moscow, St. Petersburg and Irkutsk in
> > Siberia,
> > >>>> followed by Beijing, China
> > >>>>>> 1999 - Assange registers Wikileaks
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> 1999- 2007 - These years are obscured by Assange, apart from a
> short
> > >>>> stint dropping out of college in 2003, but, of course, despite
> having
> > >>>> convictions and no gainful employment, he is able to travel all
> > around the
> > >>>> world on, it may fairly be assumed, Russian money. Assange has never
> > >>>> explained the source of the wealth he came into at 25, once he was
> > 'let
> > >>>> off' for hacking the US military
> > >>>>>> 2006 - Wikileaks 'soft launches' in Iceland
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> 2007 - Assange's Russian-speaking girlfriend in Paris is helping
> him
> > >>>> code the Wikileaks website, and he uses her for Russian translations
> > >>>>>> 2009 - the Chaos Computer Club and Assange solicit US military
> > >>>> materials in Malaysia, as described in Assange's superseding
> > indictment for
> > >>>> espionage
> > >>>>>> 2009 - Chelsea/Bradley Manning responds to the solicitation and
> > Assange
> > >>>> helps her crack US military passwords with the help of "Wikileaks
> > >>>> Affiliates" who, I submit, are clearly agents of the GRU; the
> > superseding
> > >>>> indictment states:
> > >>>>>> ASSANGE, WikiLeaks Affiliates,and Manning Shared the Common
> > Objective
> > >>>> to Subvert Lawful Restrictions on Classified Information and to
> > Publicly
> > >>>> Disseminate it.
> > >>>>>> Readers will note the indictment does not speak of other members
> of
> > >>>> Wikileaks, but "Wikileaks Affiliates".
> > >>>>>> 2012 - Russia Today gives Assange his own television show, paying
> > him
> > >>>> handsomely, and sets up his flight to the Ecuadorean embassy by
> > arranging
> > >>>> for Correa to be his guest
> > >>>>>> 2016 - the Chaos Computer Club's Andy Muller Maughn delivers
> > Assange a
> > >>>> thumb drive, while openly boasting he works for Russian intelligence
> > and
> > >>>> the Chinese government
> > >>>>>>
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