Spanish court summons Mike Pompeo to testify on CIA plot to kidnap or assassinate Assange
Oscar Grenfell@Oscar_Grenfell
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Spain’s National High Court has summoned former CIA director and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to give testimony on a massive spying operation he allegedly orchestrated against Julian Assange and a related Trump administration plot to kidnap or assassinate the WikiLeaks publisher in London.
Julian Assange being dragged out of the Ecuadorean embassy in London, April 2019
The summons, revealed by ABC Spain last Friday, was issued by National High Court Judge Santiago Pedraz. It reportedly compels Pompeo, along with former US National Counterintelligence and Security Center director William Evanina to testify before a Spanish court, either in person or by video link, later this month.
Pompeo and Evanina have been subpoenaed in a criminal case against Davis Morales, a former Spanish marine who headed the UC Global private security firm. In 2015, Morales’ company was hired by the Ecuadorian government to provide security for its London embassy, where Assange lived as a political refugee.
According to UC Global whistleblowers, who provided evidence to the Spanish proceedings, Morales entered into an agreement with US authorities in 2016 to extensively surveil the WikiLeaks founder. The former employees also stated there were discussions of potentially abducting Assange or poisoning him the following year.
This ties in with a Yahoo! News exposé last September, which alleged that in 2017 there were discussions in the top levels of the US Trump administration about taking extraordinary measures against Assange, including a possible kidnapping or assassination.
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https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/06/06/ohqh-j06.html
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