Russian KGB hunts for WikiLeaks founder to eliminate him and his sources of information on Russia

1 December 2010

A renown American magazine, The National Examiner, specializing in disclosing materials, reported about a threat to the site administrator of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, from the international terrorist network FSB Russia. The website reports in an article by its journalist Bill Below:

"The latest round of Wikileaks materials has embarrassed the Obama Administration, creating a diplomatic crisis. However, their next target, Russia might not play as nicely as the US.

Access by the military to some of the United States' most sensitive diplomatic information was cut off on Tuesday cut, after Wikileaks released a torrent of information that embarrassed and outraged governments around the world.

It is believed that a former enlisted Army corporal, Bradley Manning, was behind much of the released documents. It appears that he'll never see the light of day again, facing a likely life in prison sentence.

In another Wikileak development, "National security officials say that the National Security Agency, the U.S. government's eavesdropping agency, has already picked up tell-tale electronic evidence that WikiLeaks is under close surveillance by the Russian FSB, that country's domestic spy network, out of fear in Moscow that WikiLeaks is prepared to release damaging personal information about Kremlin leaders".

Maybe Wikileaks leader Julian Assange missed this memo, the Russians play for keeps. They are very good at taking out people who say too much. Perhaps this is one reason he is on the move so much".

The National Examiner provides a link to the U.S. portal Hot Air, which first citing the following first 3 paragraphs from the American newspaper The Daily Beast, and then, starting from the 4th paragraph, is written on their own, in a message dated 30 November:

"American intelligence and law-enforcement agencies, outraged by their inability to stop WikiLeaks and its release this week of hundreds of thousands of sensitive U.S. diplomatic cables, are convinced that the whistle-blowing website is about to come up against an adversary that will stop at nothing to shut it down it (obviously to kill Assange - KC): The Russian government.

Employees of National Security said that the National Security Agency United States, National Security Agency (NSA), the American governmental structures dealing with wiretap, has already received containing hints of electronic evidence, that the Russian FSB Wikileaks is closely related to fear of Moscow, caused by the fact that Wikileaks to release information damaging personally Kremlin leaders.

National security officials say that the National Security Agency, the U.S. government's eavesdropping agency, has already picked up tell-tale electronic evidence that WikiLeaks is under close surveillance by the Russian FSB, that country's domestic spy network, out of fear in Moscow that WikiLeaks is prepared to release damaging personal information about Kremlin leaders.

"We may not have been able to stop WikiLeaks so far, and it's been frustrating," a U.S. law-enforcement official tells The Daily Beast. "The Russians play by different rules."

He said that if WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, follow through on threats to post highly embarrassing information about the Russian government and what is assumed to be massive corruption among its leaders, "the Russians will be ruthless in stopping WikiLeaks."

The Russians, under the leadership of former KGB (now FSB) officer Vladimir Putin, have not blanched at, well, much of anything. The death of Alexander Litvinenko from a slow-acting poison is widely believed to have been an assassination conducted by the FSB.

The poisoning of Ukrainian leader Viktor Yushchenko in the Orange Revolution was similarly suspicious, and dissident Boris Berezovsky survived at least one attempt on his life as well.

That problem may be more acute for the people who supplied Assange with the data rather than Assange himself. The FSB has restrained itself mainly to attacking Russian expatriates (and what about a murder of Kaczynski? - KC) rather than Westerners, but as the DB reports, Wikileaks almost certainly got whatever they have through that route, especially from the super-rich Russian industrialists that had to flee after Putin took power.

Given Assange's predilection for releasing information in its raw form, the FSB will likely have little problem finding the sources of the data and making sure that they won't give Assange anything else ever.

Russia will most likely contain itself to cyberwarfare on a massive scale to shut down Assange rather than violence. If they succeed, they may wind up doing Barack Obama a huge favor, since the continuing exposure of communications data has the White House continually on the defensive. But if someone winds up grabbing Assange, he may want to pray that it's the Americans rather than the FSB".

It is to be noted that this information by American media outlets is confirmed from an independent source, unknown by these media outlets at the time of publication. Therefore, by the standards of American journalism (Russian journalism have no rules, they are simply branches of the KGB/FSB), it is a reliable information.

We are talking about a threat to Assange from another Russian terrorist gang, the SVR. As for the Russian terrorist gang FSB, it operates in this case without drawing attention to it with new threats. Previous threats have been openly made 2 weeks ago.

Department of Monitoring
Kavkaz Center

Source: Kavkaz Center.
Link: http://kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2010/12/01/13023.shtml.