Assange 'Rape' Accuser Linked To Notorious CIA Operative
By David Edwards
One of the women that is accusing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of
sex crimes appears to have worked with a group that has connections to
the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
James D. Catlin, a lawyer who recently represented Assange, said the
sex assault investigation into the WikiLeaks founder is based on
claims he didn't use condoms during sex with two Swedish women.
Swedish prosecutors told AOL News last week that Assange was not
wanted for rape as has been reported, but for something called "sex by
surprise" or "unexpected sex."
One accuser, Anna Ardin, may have "ties to the US-financed anti-Castro
and anti-communist groups," according to Israel Shamir and Paul
Bennett, writing for CounterPunch.
While in Cuba, Ardin worked with the Las damas de blanco (the Ladies
in White), a feminist anti-Castro group.
Professor Michael Seltzer pointed out that the group is led by Carlos
Alberto Montaner who is reportedly connected to the CIA.
Shamir and Bennett also describe Ardin as a "leftist" who "published
her anti-Castro diatribes (see here and here) in the Swedish-language
publication Revista de Asignaturas Cubanas put out by Misceláneas de
Cuba."
Shamir and Bennett noted that Las damas de blanco is partially funded
by the US government and also counts Luis Posada Carriles as a
supporter.
A declassified 1976 document (.pdf) revealed Posada to be a CIA agent.
He has been convicted of terrorist attacks that killed hundreds of
people.
Ardin is "a gender equity officer at Uppsula University – who chose to
associate with a US funded group openly supported by a convicted
terrorist and mass murderer," FireDogLake's Kirk James Murphy
observed.
In August, Assange told Al-Jazeera that the accusations were "clearly
a smear campaign."
"We have been warned that, for example, the Pentagon is planning on
using dirty tricks to destroy our work," Assange told the Swedish
daily newspaper Aftonbladet.
The WikiLeaks founder said he was told to be careful of "sex traps."
Had Assange fallen for one of those traps? "Maybe. Maybe not," he
said.
Catlin observed that both Ardin and Sofia Wilén, the second accuser,
sent SMS messages and tweets boasting of their conquests following the
alleged "rapes."
"In the case of Ardin it is clear that she has thrown a party in
Assange's honour at her flat after the 'crime' and tweeted to her
followers that she is with the 'the world's coolest smartest people,
it's amazing!'" he wrote.
"The exact content of Wilén's mobile phone texts is not yet known but
their bragging and exculpatory character has been confirmed by Swedish
prosecutors. Niether Wilén's nor Ardin's texts complain of rape,"
Catlin said.
Ardin has also published a seven step guide on how to get revenge on
cheating boyfriends.
When the charges were first leveled in August, Gawker raised doubts
that Ardin was working for the CIA.
"If anything, Ardin's outing tends to undercut Assange's conspiracy
theory that one of his accusers is a major figure on Sweden's left
fringe, freewheelingly indiscreet on her personal blog and, until her
charges, an enthusiastic promoter of Assange's visit to the country,"
Gawker wrote.
After Interpol issued a digital "wanted" poster for Assange on Monday
morning, an unnamed Scotland Yard source reportedly told Press
Association it had been given the documents needed for the arrest.
Police would not comment on the report publicly.
Several British news outlets speculated that Assange could be arrested
as early as Tuesday.
On Monday evening, Mark Stephens, Assange's London lawyer, was
negotiating with British authorities over an arrest warrant they'd
received from their Swedish counterparts. Assange has vowed to fight
extradition.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/assange-rape-accuser-cia-ties/
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