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Here's a story you won't hear on Fox News or CNN. Donny Trump's #1 donor Sheldon Adelson served as a cover for a CIA mission that was so dirty, they'd planned on stealing the dirty diapers of Assange's son, and even discussed poisoning him in the Ecuadoran embassy.
Plans to poison or kidnap Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian embassy were discussed between sources in US intelligence and a private security firm that spied extensively on the WikiLeaks co-founder, a court has been told.
Details of the alleged spying operation against Assange and anyone who visited him at the embassy were laid out on Wednesday at his extradition case.
Microphones were concealed to monitor Assange’s meetings with lawyers, his fingerprint was obtained from a glass and there was even a plot to obtain a nappy from a baby who had been brought on regular visits to the embassy, according to the witness, whose evidence took the form of a written statement.
The founder and director of UC Global, David Morales, had said that “the Americans” had wanted to establish paternity but the plan was foiled when the then employee alerted the child’s mother.
In the evidence, one of the witnesses said that UC Global started off with meagre contracts and in reality the only one at the beginning had been signed in October 2015 with the government of Ecuador in order to provide security for the daughters of the country’s president and its embassy in London.
However, they said this changed when Morales attended a security sector trade fair in Las Vegas, where he obtained a contract with Las Vegas Sands, a company owned by the US billionaire Sheldon Adelson. The American was a friend and supporter of Donald Trump, who was a presidential candidate at the time. Throughout the black operations campaign against Assange, US intelligence appears to have worked through Adelson’s Las Vegas Sands, a company that had previously served as an alleged front for a CIA blackmail operation several years earlier. The operations formally began once Adelson’s hand-picked presidential candidate, Trump, entered the White House in January 2017.
An increasingly sophisticated operation to monitor Assange was launched and would accelerate after Trump assumed office in 2017, the witness said, adding that Morales would make frequent trips to the US with recorded data.
“He [Morales] showed at times a real obsession in relation to monitoring the lawyers because our American friends were requesting it,” added the witness, who held a stake in UC Global for a period of time.
The other witness, an IT expert who had joined UC Global in 2015, also referred to the trips to the US by Morales, who they said spoke about it in terms of “going to the dark side”.
The witness was tasked in December 2017 with installing new cameras at the embassy that would, unlike the previous cameras, also record audio. They said Morales later instructed that the cameras should have a livestreaming capability “so that our friends in the US” would be able to access the embassy in real time.
This “alarmed” the then employee who said it was not technically achievable. The response of Morales, he alleged, was to send him a document with detailed instructions on how to do it.
“Obviously the document must have been supplied by a third party, which the witness expects was US intelligence,” said Summers, as he read out parts of the submission.
The witness was said to have refused, saying it was manifestly illegal.
The witness also claimed that the company’s US contacts had become nervous when it appeared Assange might be on the verge of securing a diplomatic passport from Ecuador in order to travel to a third state.
On one occasion in 2017, they also recalled Morales saying that his American contacts had suggested that “more extreme measures” should be deployed against visitors to Assange.
“There was a suggestion that the door of the embassy would be left open allowing people to enter from the outside and kidnap or poison Assange,” the court was told. The witness alleged Morales said these suggestions were under consideration with his contacts in the US.
According to court documents and testimony by a former business associate and employees of Morales, it was Adelson’s top bodyguard, an Israeli-American named Zohar Lahav, who personally recruited Morales, then managed the relationship between the Spanish security contractor and Sands on a routine basis. After their first meeting in Vegas, the two security professionals became close friends, visiting each other overseas and speaking frequently.
US intelligence sources discussed poisoning Julian Assange, court told
Extradition hearing told spying operation at Ecuador embassy included plot to take baby’s nappywww.theguardian.com
'The American friends': New court files expose Sheldon Adelson's security team in US spy operation against Julian Assange | The Grayzone
Sheldon Adelson company Las Vegas Sands played crucial rule in apparent CIA spying operation targeting Julian Assange. Sands security staff helped it.thegrayzone.com
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