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Risks extradition: Julian Assange
BRITISH spooks remained tight-lipped today after questions posed by the Morning Star over an alleged CIA plot to kidnap and assassinate Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in London.
MI5 did not respond when asked what it knew about the plans to kill Mr Assange on British soil reportedly discussed by the US spy agency and former US president Donald Trump at the White House in 2017.
Though a plan was never approved, discussions centred on the possibility of kidnapping Mr Assange and even executing him if he left the sanctuary of the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he had sought asylum over fears that the US planned to extradite him.
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