Assange Wikileaks: CIA spy - David Morales UC Global S.L.

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Fri Sep 27 19:26:54 PDT 2019


https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/09/25/inenglish/1569384196_652151.html

Spanish security company spied on Julian Assange in London for the United States
Spain’s High Court is investigating the director of UC Global S. L.
and the activities of his company, which had been hired to protect the
Ecuadorian embassy in the English capital

David Morales, the owner of the company, supposedly handed over audio
and video to the CIA of the meetings Assange held with his lawyers and
collaborators. Morales is being investigated for this activity by
Spain’s High Court, the Audiencia Nacional.

Cameras and external access for the US
After the installation of new video cameras at the beginning of
December 2017, Morales requested that his technicians install an
external streaming access point in the same area so that all of the
recordings could be accessed instantly by the United States. To do
this, he requested three channels for access: “one for Ecuador,
another for us and another for X,” according to mails sent at the time
to his colleagues. When one of the technicians asked to contact “the
Americans” to explain the way that they should access some of the
spying systems installed in the embassy, Morales would always be
evasive with his answers.

Morales ordered his workers to install microphones in the embassy’s
fire extinguishers and also in the women’s bathroom, where Assange’s
lawyers, including the Spaniard Aitor Martínez and his closest
collaborators, would meet for fear of being spied on. The
cyberactivist’s meetings with his lawyers, Melynda Taylor, Jennifer
Robinson and Baltasar Garzón, were also monitored.

The UC Global S. L. team was also ordered by its boss to install
stickers that prevented the windows of the rooms that the WikiLeaks
founder used from vibrating, allegedly to make it easier for the CIA
to record conversations with their laser microphones.

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