Assange received deliveries and maintained control over guest list

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Lily Puckett
New York
5 hours ago

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange maintained an unusual amount of power during his stay at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London ...

According to surveillance reports seen by CNN, Assange received deliveries potentially containing hacked materials related to the 2016 US election during a series of “suspicious meetings” at the embassy.

Assange also had control over visitors. He created a list of people who were allowed to enter the embassy without showing identification or being searched by security, and was granted the power to delete names from visitor logs. He sometimes met guests inside a woman’s bathroom to avoid security cameras ...

Andrew Müller-Maguhn, the German hacker named in Mr Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election, also makes a prominent appearance in the surveillance documents, visiting Assange at the London embassy at least a dozen times before the 2016 election ...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/julian-assange-ecuador-embassy-2016-us-election-meddling-wikileaks-a9007641.html

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1. Ex-president confirms Assange meddled in US election from embassy

By Marshall Cohen and Kay Guerrero, CNN
Updated 10:26 PM ET, Tue July 16, 2019

Atlanta (CNN)Former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa said Tuesday his country was aware that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was interfering in the 2016 US presidential election from the safety of Ecuador's embassy in London, where he lived under political asylum until this year.

"We did notice that he was interfering in the elections and we do not allow that because we have principles, very clear values, as we would not like anyone to interfere in our elections," he said. "We are not going to allow that to happen with a foreign country and friend like the US" ...

"WikiLeaks' justification was that they were providing truthful information," Correa told CNN. "Sure, but (it) was just about Hillary Clinton. Not about (Donald) Trump. So, they were not saying all the truth. And not saying all the truth is called manipulation. And we are not going to allow that" ...

"I am way closer to Hillary Clinton than Trump," Correa told CNN. "I know Hillary, I admire her. I was a student in the US, doing my doctorate when Bill Clinton was (president). Trump is an enemy of our migrants. Why the hell are we going to support him? None of this makes sense" ...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/16/politics/ecuador-response-assange-wikileaks/index.html

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2. Assange turned embassy into command post for election attack

By Tamar Lapin
Published: July 16, 2019 8:18 a.m. ET

... The hundreds of pages of surveillance reports and visitor logs were compiled by UC Global, a private Spanish security firm hired by the Ecuadorian government.

The information supports the suggestion raised by special counsel Robert Mueller in his report that WikiLeaks helped the Russians undermine the U.S. election.

The reports indicate that Assange met with Russians and “world-class hackers” before critical leaks.

He also got his hands on computer and network hardware updates to help with the transfer of massive encrypted files from Russian operatives, according to the documents ...

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/cnn-reports-assange-met-with-russians-and-hackers-as-he-turned-embassy-in-london-into-election-meddling-command-center-2019-07-16