Exclusive: Security reports reveal how Assange turned an embassy into a command post for election meddling

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https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/15/politics/assange-embassy-exclusive-documents/index.html

By Marshall Cohen, Kay Guerrero and Arturo Torres
CNN
July 15, 2019

Atlanta (CNN) -- New documents obtained exclusively by CNN reveal that 
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange received in-person deliveries, 
potentially of hacked materials related to the 2016 US election, during a 
series of suspicious meetings at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.

The documents build on the possibility, raised by special counsel Robert 
Mueller in his report on Russian meddling, that couriers brought hacked 
files to Assange at the embassy.

The surveillance reports also describe how Assange turned the embassy into 
a command center and orchestrated a series of damaging disclosures that 
rocked the 2016 presidential campaign in the United States.

Despite being confined to the embassy while seeking safe passage to 
Ecuador, Assange met with Russians and world-class hackers at critical 
moments, frequently for hours at a time. He also acquired powerful new 
computing and network hardware to facilitate data transfers just weeks 
before WikiLeaks received hacked materials from Russian operatives.

These stunning details come from hundreds of surveillance reports compiled 
for the Ecuadorian government by UC Global, a private Spanish security 
company, and obtained by CNN. They chronicle Assange's movements and 
provide an unprecedented window into his life at the embassy. They also 
add a new dimension to the Mueller report, which cataloged how WikiLeaks 
helped the Russians undermine the US election.

An Ecuadorian intelligence official told CNN that the surveillance reports 
are authentic.

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