According to the Sydney Morning Herald reported on the 26th, Stella Moris, the fiancée of Julian Assange, the founder of the "WikiLeaks" website, said that she believed she had been the target of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) conspiracy to assassinate or kidnap.
Stella Morris (Infographic People's Vision)
Last month, a Yahoo News reporter published an explosive report after interviewing 30 unnamed former U.S. officials that the CIA had discussed assassinating or kidnapping Assange, who had sought asylum inside Ecuador's British embassy, for fear that Assange might accept arrangements from Russian agents to flee to Russia. The report also said that CIA personnel even planned to break out a gunfight with Russian agents in the streets of London.
After the incident came to light, Pompeo, former US secretary of state and former CIA director, responded that the report was "false" and that "we never planned to violate US laws." "Whoever these 30 people are, they should be prosecuted because they talked about the CIA's classified activities," Pompeo said. But maybe they didn't make it up, maybe they didn't make it up. ”
Assange's partner, Morris, the mother of his two sons, formed a relationship with Assange when he sought asylum at the embassy, saying she believes she was being targeted as well. Speaking at a press conference in London, Morris said: "I felt like we were prey because I was Julian's closest person, so I felt like I was clearly a target. "I think they might beat me, or try to kill me, or do something to get close to Julian because they're desperate to kick him out of the embassy and send him to Belmarsh prison." ”
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The Sydney Morning Herald pointed out that in addition to launching drone attacks against the leaders of terrorist organizations in the Middle East, the US intelligence agency has been forced to stop planning assassinations of public figures since the CIA's assassination was exposed by the media in the 1970s.
Asked by the Sydney Morning Herald and Time Magazine whether Assange would feel safer living in a country like Russia compared to Australia or the UK, Morris said "no", but said both UK and Australian governments need to guarantee their safety and her family's "right to live".
Assange has been held in London's Belmarsh prison since Ecuador revoked his asylum in April 2019, and he is trying to avoid his extradition to the United States, thus facing hacking and allegations involving the disclosure of classified U.S. government documents and diplomatic cables about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. His next court hearing is scheduled for later this month. Assange's lawyers have repeatedly argued that the United States was trying to extradite him as politically motivated.
Morris also compared Assange's case to that of Saudi journalist Khashoggi, who was killed and dismembered at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. "The United States is plotting to kill an Australian journalist who is an Australian citizen and winner of Australia's Walkley Award," she said. Australia has to do something, and the government has to do something to save his life. ”
(Editor: WDQ)