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The Guardian: Russian Diplomats Planned to Sneak Julian Assange Out of the UK

posted by martyb on Sunday September 23 2018, @01:44AM   Printer-friendly
from the enemy-of-my-enemy-is-my-friend dept.

takyon writes:

Revealed: Russia's secret plan to help Julian Assange escape from UK

Russian diplomats held secret talks in London last year with people close to Julian Assange to assess whether they could help him flee the UK, the Guardian has learned.

A tentative plan was devised that would have seen the WikiLeaks founder smuggled out of Ecuador's London embassy in a diplomatic vehicle and transported to another country.

One ultimate destination, multiple sources have said, was Russia, where Assange would not be at risk of extradition to the US. The plan was abandoned after it was deemed too risky.

The operation to extract Assange was provisionally scheduled for Christmas Eve in 2017, one source claimed, and was linked to an unsuccessful attempt by Ecuador to give Assange formal diplomatic status.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by shortscreen on Sunday September 23 2018, @08:54AM (2 children)

    by shortscreen (2252) on Sunday September 23 2018, @08:54AM (#738794) Journal

    OK so maybe their diplomatic vehicle plan had some shortcomings. But I'm sure Putin has enough resources at his disposal to make this happen.

    Plan 1: smuggle in a jetpack, Julian flies away

    plan 1b: smuggle in materials to make a hot air balloon (a family escaped from East Germany this way)

    plan 2: use weather control technology to spawn a heavy blizzard, Julian hides inside a large snowball which rolls right past the cops

    plan 3: send a guy to drop a bottle of perfume on the street in front of the embassy and exclaim "oh shit, the novichok!" to scare the cops away

    plan 4: declare that Julian has already escaped and made it to Moscow, wait for cops to give up and go home

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 23 2018, @09:10PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 23 2018, @09:10PM (#738952)

    plan 5: smuggle him out one piece at a time.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 24 2018, @12:39AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 24 2018, @12:39AM (#739019)

    W007! Weather war! Could also be

    plan 6: have the Russian Anunnaki beam Assange up