by James Badcock at The Telegraph
Mike Pompeo has been summoned by a Spanish court to testify over claims the US plotted to assassinate Julian Assange.
Judge Santiago Pedraz, of Spain’s National Court, is leading an investigation into whether Spanish security firm UC Global spied on Mr Assange while providing security for the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where the Australian resided between 2012 and 2019.
A spokesman for Spain’s National Court told The Telegraph that Judge Pedraz had sent a request to US authorities to call the former US secretary of state as a witness.
“There has been no reply as yet,” the spokesman added.
The alleged plot was first revealed by Yahoo News last November. The outlet reported that senior CIA and Trump administration officials discussed the possibility of kidnapping or killing Mr Assange after being angered by WikiLeaks’ 2017 publication of CIA hacking tools…
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