The mystery of Julian Assange’s cat: Where will it go? What does it know?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/04/12/mystery-julian-assanges-cat-where-will-it-go-what-does-it-know/?utm_term=.ba33a4950c1c

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Anons, I think this cat story is some kind of comms, not unlike all the dog stuff we keep seeing.

The whole thing comes across as rather strange, and more than a little ominous in places.

Believe as much of this as you like, but I think the cat is being used as a proxy for Assange, who has been elsewhere for a while. I'll copypasta a few things that activate my almonds:

>Would the cat’s asylum end, too? Or was it just beginning? Would someone adopt it, or would it also face extradition to the United States? Would it fall victim to a vast conspiracy? Did it know too much?

Possibly a pun.

>While it’s unclear exactly what happened to Embassy Cat, multiple sources have indicated that it long ago left its home.

>Sputnik, the Russian government-run news organization and diligent reporter of Embassy Cat developments, said it had contacted the Ecuadoran Embassy about the cat and that a spokesman confirmed that it has been gone for months.

>“It is not here since September, I think,” the official told Sputnik. “It was taken by Mr. Assange’s associates a long ago … It is not here. We are not a pet store, so we do not keep pets here.”

>James Ball, an early employee of WikiLeaks who defected after three months at the organization, said on Twitter that the embassy gave the cat to a shelter “ages ago.” He also wrote that he “genuinely ofered to adopt it,” though it doesn’t appear that Assange took him up on it.

>Other media reports have suggested that the cat is less a companion and more of a public-relations strategy. Assange has told tabloids that the cat was a gift from his children, but someone the New Yorker described as knowing Assange well told the publication something quite different.

>“Julian stared at the cat for about half an hour, trying to figure out how it could be useful, and then came up with this: Yeah, let’s say it’s from my children,” the person said. “Everything is P.R. — everything.”

>As for the new owners, Bradshaw advised them to keep the cat as an indoor-only pet, because it grew up as such in the embassy. If allowed outside after its repatriation, it may try to escape and return to its old home in the London neighborhood.

>“It will probably try to get back to Knightsbridge,” Bradshaw said, “and likely fall foul of the traffic.”

That last one definitely sounds like a threat.

I think this needs eyes-on. Can any autists check my thinking?