CIA “Honeytrap” Ardin Deleted Twitter Posts Praising Assange

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
December 10, 2010

	Anna Ardin.

Anna Ardin, described in court documents as “Miss A,” had deleted Twitter messages speaking highly of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, the man she would later accuse of rape, according to Göran Rudling, the editor Consensus Now, a website arguing that laws based on sexual activities need to be consensual to not be considered criminal.

Assange was in Stockholm, Sweden, in August to speak at the invitation of Sweden’s Social Democratic Party. The event was organized by Ardin, who was the press secretary of the Brotherhood Movement, which is an adjunct of the Social Democratic Party.

The 31 year old woman is described as a feminist, leftist and animal rights activist who previously worked at the Uppsala University where she handled equality issues for the students’ union.

Earlier this week, the Cuban news agencies Granma and Prensa Latina stated that Ardin is a Cuban CIA collaborator who works with Miami-based, U.S. government paid intelligence agencies. They say Ardin is linked to the anti-Cuban terrorist Carlos Aberto Montaner.

In newspapers and blogs, the blond Swede has been called a “honey trap” — see here, here, andhere — a word that describes intelligence agencies using women to lure in male targets.

Between Saturday and Sunday, August 14-15, Ardin wrote the following about Assange on her Twitter account:

‘Julian wants to go to a crayfish party, anyone have a couple of available seats tonight or tomorrow? #fb’

‘Sitting outdoors at 02:00 and hardly freezing with the world’s coolest smartest people, it’s amazing! #fb’

“When Anna Ardin files a police complaint against Julian Assange on 20 August these tweets are removed,” Rudling notes. “Why? As far as I can tell, it’s not common for victims of crime to delete blogs, clean up their cellphones, and try to get witnesses to attest to things that aren’t true. Why is it so important to remove these particular tweets?”

Rudling wrote about his discovery on the Radsoft website on September 30.

James Catlin, also writing for Radsoft, reports that Ardin and Swedish associate Sofia Wilén invented the rape scenario in order to entrap Assange. “They went to the police station asking for advice, knowing the police would turn it into an accusation of rape. They’re also the ones who leaked the story to the tabloid Expressen,” writes Catlin.

Catlin claims Ardin’s SMS history proves she made the story up and plotted with Wilén “to leak the story to notorious Swedish tabloid Expressen.”

It was reported that Ardin moved to the Palestinian West Bank to work with an outreach group called the Ecumenical Accompaniment Program in Palestine and Israel, but this was later debunked. The group’s program coordinator, Pauline Nunu, said Ardin had canceled her trip and did not know where she was.

On Thursday, December 9, Rundle reported that Ardin may have ceased actively co-operating with the Swedish prosecution service and her own lawyer.

“The move comes amid a growing campaign by leading Western feminists to question the investigation, and renewed confusion as to whether Sweden has actually issued charges against Assange. Naomi Klein, Naomi Wolf, and the European group Women Against Rape, have all made statements questioning the nature and purpose of the prosecution,” Rundle wrote for Crikey.

A growing number of observers believe Ardin works for the CIA and was employed to set-up Assange. “After leaving Cuba, Ardin worked with web sites financed by USAID and controlled by the CIA,” writes the Australia-Cuba Friendship Society.

One of these sites was ‘Miscelánea de Cuba’, run by the Cuban Alexis Gainza. Through Gainza she became linked to Swedish agencies, including Dagens Nyheter and SVT, and entered the Swedish Social Democrat party.

Gainza is linked to the German Internationale Gesellschaft für Menschenrechte(International Human Rights Society), a group linked to German and U.S. intelligence and has some former Nazis (such as Ludwig Martin) and ex military figures (Dieter von Glahn) in its ranks.

The current president of the IGFM, Martin Lessenthin, works closely with the Venezuelan opposition party Primero Justicia, led by the anti-Chavez terrorist Alejandro Peña.

Primero Justicia, in turn is the main partner of the International republican Institute, and extreme right wing group funded by the US Government’s National Endowment for Democracy.

Both USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy are linked to the CIA. In 2009, a high ranking CIA official admitted that USAID is a cover for the agency. “A lot of what we [NED] do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA,” Allen Weinstein, one of the founders of NED, admitted.

Julian Assange, who appears to be a dupe for a concerted government effort to shut down whistleblowers and criminalize the release of government information, may or may not be extradited from Britain to Sweden to face what now appears to be wholly invented rape charges.

A number of politicians and officials want Assange sent to the United States to face espionage charges. Assange’s lawyer, however, said that she did not believe the Espionage Act applied to Assange, who is she added currently in solitary confinement in Wandsworth prison in London, according to The Telegraph.

The 1917 law was used against American citizens such as the socialist Kate Richards O’Hare and Eugene V. Debs, Socialist Party presidential candidate in 1904, 1908, and 1912.

Julian Assange is Australian.

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Julian Assange Rape Investigation Reopened: Sweden Probing WikiLeaks Founder

MALIN RISING | 09/ 1/10 07:37 AM | 

This Aug. 14, 2010 photo shows WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, in Stockholm, Sweden. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is suspected of rape in Sweden, where authorities have issued a warrant for his arrest, officials said Saturday Aug. 21, 2010. The 39-year-old Australian denied the allegations on WikiLeaks' Twitter page, saying they "are without basis and their issue at this moment is deeply disturbing." Assange, who has sought Swedish legal protection for the whistle-blower website, is suspec

STOCKHOLM — A senior Swedish prosecutor reopened a rape investigation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Wednesday, the latest twist to a puzzling case in which prosecutors of different ranks have overruled each other.

Assange has denied the allegations and suggested they are part of a smear campaign by opponents of WikiLeaks – an online whistle-blower that has angered Washington by publishing thousands of leaked documents about U.S. military activities in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The case was dismissed last week by Eva Finne, chief prosecutor in Stockholm, who overruled a lower-ranked prosecutor and said there was no reason to suspect that Assange, an Australian citizen, had raped a Swedish woman who had reported him to police.

The woman's lawyer appealed the decision. Director of Public Prosecution Marianne Ny decided to reopen the case Wednesday, saying new information had come in on Tuesday.

"We went through all the case material again, including what came in, and that's when I made my decision," to reopen the case, Ny told The Associated Press by phone.

She declined to say what new information she had received or whether Assange, who was questioned by investigators on Monday, would be arrested.

An arrest warrant issued Aug. 20 was withdrawn within 24 hours amid the back-and-forth between prosecutors.

Ny said "it's not entirely uncommon" that such reversals take place in Sweden, in particular regarding allegations of sex crimes.

Ny also decided that another complaint against Assange should be investigated on suspicion of "sexual coercion and sexual molestation." That overruled a previous decision to only investigate the case as "molestation," which is not a sex offense under Swedish law.

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Investigators have not released details about either case, though a police report obtained by the AP shows both women had met Assange in connection with a seminar he gave in Stockholm on Aug. 14. The report shows the women filed their complaints together six days later.

Wikileaks made headlines around the world July 25 when it released tens of thousands of pages of secret U.S. documents about Afghanistan.

Assange is seeking legal protection for WikiLeaks in Sweden, one of the countries where the group says it has servers. The Swedish Migration Board has confirmed that Assange has applied for a work and residence permit in the Scandinavian country.

Assange did not immediately respond to the rape case being reopened, and his defense lawyer Leif Silbersky didn't answer calls seeking comment.

WikiLeaks spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson said the group backs Assange.

"We hope that he will clear his name and meanwhile the WikiLeaks organization is going on with its endeavors," Hrafnsson told AP.

WikiLeaks says it intends to publish 15,000 more Afghan war documents in coming weeks, a disclosure that U.S. officials say could endanger innocent people or confidential informants.

Claes Borgstrom, a lawyer who represents both women, welcomed the decision Wednesday.

"This is a redress for my clients, I have to say, because they have been dragged through the mud on the Internet, for having made things up or intending to frame Assange," Borgstrom said.

Borgstrom had previously dismissed rumors that the sex allegations were part of a conspiracy against Assange, saying "There is not an ounce of truth in all this about Pentagon, or the CIA, or smear campaigns, nothing like it."

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Associated Press writers Karl Ritter in Stockholm and Ian MacDougall in Oslo, Norway, contributed to this report.

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WikiLeaks Founder No Longer Wanted for Rape

By JEANNE WHALEN

Swedish police said Saturday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was "no longer wanted" for rape, reversing its position just hours after saying his arrest was being sought.

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in Stockholm last week.

In an update on the Web site of the Swedish Prosecution Authority, the agency said that "chief prosector Eva Finné has come to the decision that Julian Assange is not suspected of rape."

Mr. Assange said in a posting on the WikiLeaks Twitter account in response to the initial allegation: "The charges are without basis and their issue at this moment is deeply disturbing."

WikiLeaks last month published 76,000 classified U.S. military documents about the war in Afghanistan. Mr. Assange, an Australian, has been in Sweden in recent days, where WikiLeaks has some infrastructure.

The Pentagon has sharply criticized Mr. Assange for publishing the documents, saying it could put the lives of solidiers and Afghan civilians at risk. Mr. Assange has said he planned to publish up to 15,000 more documents about the war soon. He defends the publications, saying greater transparency is needed about civilian casualties, U.S. military tactics and other issues. 

In a statement posted on the WikiLeaks site, the organization said: "On Saturday 21st of August, we have been made aware of rape allegations made against Julian Assange, founder of this project and one of our spokespeople. We are deeply concerned about the seriousness of these allegations. We the people behind WikiLeaks think highly of Julian and and he has our full support. While Julian is focusing on his defenses and clearing his name, WikiLeaks will be continuing its regular operations."

In an earlier Twitter posting, WikiLeaks said it had been warned to expect "dirty tricks."

Write to Jeanne Whalen at jeanne.whalen@wsj.com

WikiLeaks Founder Charged with Rape in Sweden

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
August 21, 2010

Julian Assange, the wandering founder of the whistleblower website WikiLeaks, has been charged with rape in Sweden, according to Aftonbladet, a large newspaper in Stockholm.

	Swedish authorites say Wikileaks founder Julian Assange may have raped and molested two women.

Assange will be charged with “rape and molestation,” Maria Häljebo Kjell Beach, with the City Prosecutor’s House in Stockholm, told the newspaper. Assange has yet to be officially informed by the police of the charges against him.

“According to Expressen, the Australian is facing charges leveled from two women. The media report suggests that Assange has been charged in absentia, based on recent claims leveled against him,” reports OneIndia this morning.

Assange denied the accusation in a Twitter. “The charges are without basis and their issue at this moment is deeply disturbing,” he wrote.

The internet activist and journalist is in Sweden to plan for possibly moving the WikiLeaks operation to the country. The Swedish Pirate Party has agreed to host several new WikiLeaks servers and provide the site with free bandwidth. The servers will be up and running in a few days and will be at an undisclosed location in Sweden, according to a report posted byComputerworld. Assange also spoke at a seminar hosted by the Christian faction of the opposition Social Democratic party and announced he will write a column for a leftist Swedish newspaper.

Late last month WikiLeaks released over 92,000 documents related to the war in Afghanistan to British newspaper The Guardian, The New York Times, and the German periodical Der Spiegel.

On August 10, Philip Shenon, writing for the Daily Beast, reported that the Obama administration asked Britain, Germany, Australia, and other allies to consider criminal charges against Assange for his role in publishing the so-called Afghan War Diary.

The Justice Department is considering use of the Espionage Act to prevent Assange from posting the remaining 15,000 “secret” war documents he claims to have, as well as force him to remove those he as already uploaded, the Washington Post reported on August 17.

On July 28, Sen. Lindsey Graham called for the criminal prosecution of Wikileaks. Rep. Mike Rogers, a Michigan Republican, has called for the execution of Private Bradley Manning, the soldier charged by the military in releasing the documents to Wikileaks.

“Since the posting of the Afghan documents some days ago the Obama White House has given the leaks credibility by claiming further leaks pose a threat to US national security. Yet details of the papers reveals little that is sensitive,” F. William Engdahl wrote on August 12.

The Wikileaks documents claim former ISI head Hamid Gul has ties to the Taliban and al-Qaeda, an allegation Gul has denied. Gul claims Obama leaked the documents as the first step in a plot to extricate the U.S. from Afghanistan without taking the blame for American defeat.

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On August 16, Gul went on the Alex Jones Show to refute the allegation.

Investigative journalist Wayne Madsen believes Wikileaks is linked to U.S. cyber-warfare and computer espionage operations, as well as to Mossad’s cyber-warfare activities. Madsen’s sources report that “Wikileaks is running a disinformation campaign, crying persecution by U.S. intelligence — when it is U.S. intelligence itself. Its [Wikileaks'] activities in Iceland are totally suspect.” Madsen’s sources believe Wikileaks “is part and parcel of a cyber-COINTELPRO campaign, such as that proposed by President Obama’s ‘information czar,’ Dr. Cass Sunstein.”

Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein, who heads up Obama’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, outlined a plan for the government to infiltrate conspiracy groups in order to undermine them via postings on chat rooms and social networks.

“It is a firmly established fact that the military-industrial complex which also owns the corporate media networks in the United States has numerous programs aimed at infiltrating prominent Internet sites and spreading propaganda to counter the truth about the misdeeds of the government and the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan,” Paul Joseph Watson wrote for Prison Planet.com on January 14, 2010.