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

[Mark Kohut]

i'll stand corrected. Spot knowledge not spot-on.
but good to learn this is probably correct.

On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 7:47 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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