CIA Spied On Julian Assange In Ecuadorian Embassy

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🗓️ 10 October 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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The CIA has been caught spying on Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Undercover Global SL, a Spanish security firm, recorded Assange during his stay in Ecuador's London embassy, where he lived under asylum, and then handed over its footage to the CIA. "That firm was contracted by Ecuador to protect the embassy, to protect [Assange], to protect us from [his] persecutors," says former Ecuadorian diplomat Fidel Narváez. "So I find it shocking." Guest: Fidel Narváez, former Ecuadorian diplomat who served at the London embassy while Julian Assange lived there under asylum. Support Pushback at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/aaronmate Pushback on Twitter: https://twitter.com/pushbackshow Aaron Maté on Twitter: https://twitter.com/aaronjmate Pushback on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lu7MGQ Pushback on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/pushbackshow Pushback on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2mpwIQm Pushback on Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=465855 Find transcripts and more at https://thegrayzone.com/pushback ||| The Grayzone ||| Find more reporting at https://thegrayzone.com Support our original journalism at Patreon: https://patreon.com/grayzone Twitter: https://twitter.com/grayzoneproject Facebook: https://facebook.com/thegrayzone Minds: https://minds.com/thegrayzone

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0:00.0	Welcome to pushback. I'm Aaron Mate.
0:05.0	The CIA has been caught spying on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
0:10.0	According to a report from Spain, a private security firm recorded Assange during his stay in Ecuador's London Embassy,
0:17.0	where he lived under asylum until April of this year.
0:20.0	The firm, undercover Global, then handed over its recordings to the CIA.
0:24.6	A streaming system was also reportedly installed, which would have given U.S. officials live access to Assange's meetings in real time.
0:33.6	As part of its spying, Undercover Global allegedly installed surveillance equipment inside
0:38.7	the women's bathroom.
0:40.5	A Spanish court has opened an investigation of the firm and its work with the CIA.
0:46.3	Fidel Narvaez is a former Ecuadorian diplomat who served in the embassy while Assange was there.
0:52.6	Welcome Fidel back to pushback. The last time we spoke,
0:57.0	it was to respond to a report in CNN that was based on information provided by the same firm,
1:04.0	making a number of wild claims about Assange that you debunked. Now we learned that the same company,
1:09.0	which was hired by Ecuador to protect the embassy,
1:12.6	was actually handing over surveillance to the CIA.
1:16.6	Are you surprised to learn this news?
1:19.6	Thank you, Aaron.
1:22.6	Yes, I'm a bit shocked by the fact that this company was providing directly information from the embassy to the Americans.
1:39.3	We knew that the company was spying on Julian. We knew that the company was spying on the Ecuadorian diplomats.
1:49.0	We knew that was an unprofessional company.
1:53.0	But we didn't know.
1:57.0	I don't think anybody knew that it will go to that extreme to provide that information to the people who they were supposedly protecting us from.
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