{"id":62370,"date":"2021-09-26T09:22:46","date_gmt":"2021-09-26T16:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/?p=62370"},"modified":"2021-09-26T09:22:46","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T16:22:46","slug":"cias-secret-war-plans-against-wikileaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/?p=62370","title":{"rendered":"CIA&#8217;s Secret War Plans Against WikiLeaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/kidnapping-assassination-and-a-london-shoot-out-inside-the-ci-as-secret-war-plans-against-wiki-leaks-090057786.html\">Yahoo News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>In 2017, as Julian Assange began his fifth year holed up in Ecuador\u2019s embassy in London, the CIA plotted to kidnap the WikiLeaks founder, spurring heated debate among Trump administration officials over the legality and practicality of such an operation.<\/p>\n<p>Some senior officials inside the CIA and the Trump administration even discussed killing Assange, going so far as to request \u201csketches\u201d or \u201coptions\u201d for how to assassinate him. Discussions over kidnapping or killing Assange occurred \u201cat the highest levels\u201d of the Trump administration, said a former senior counterintelligence official. \u201cThere seemed to be no boundaries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The conversations were part of an unprecedented CIA campaign directed against WikiLeaks and its founder. The agency\u2019s multipronged plans also included extensive spying on WikiLeaks associates, sowing discord among the group\u2019s members, and stealing their electronic devices.<\/p>\n<p>While Assange had been on the radar of U.S. intelligence agencies for years, these plans for an all-out war against him were sparked by WikiLeaks\u2019 ongoing publication of extraordinarily sensitive CIA hacking tools, known collectively as \u201cVault 7,\u201d which the agency ultimately concluded represented \u201cthe largest data loss in CIA history.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via: Yahoo News: In 2017, as Julian Assange began his fifth year holed up in Ecuador\u2019s embassy in London, the CIA plotted to kidnap the WikiLeaks founder, spurring heated debate among Trump administration officials over the legality and practicality of such an operation. Some senior officials inside the CIA and the Trump administration even discussed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,27,12,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assassination","category-covert-operations","category-technology","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62371,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62370\/revisions\/62371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}