New evidence suggests that the CIA’s shadow loomed over WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for several months during his long stay at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, through the cooperation of a Spanish security firm that made audio and video recordings of the Australian activist’s conversations with his lawyers and allegedly relayed this material to US intelligence services. On Monday, a judge in London ruled against extraditing the cyber-activist to the US, where he is facing espionage charges over WikiLeaks’ release of classified military and diplomatic material in 2010.
An investigation started by Judge José de la Mata of Spain’s High Court, the Audiencia Nacional, and to be continued by his replacement at this courthouse, is tracking the IP addresses – unique numbers that identify devices connected to the internet – that logged on to the servers of UC Global S.L, the Spanish company in charge of security at the embassy where Assange took refuge between June 2012 and April 2019. The company’s servers, where all its information is stored, are located in the southern Spanish city of Jerez de la Frontera.
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