CNN: Assange Ran Election Meddling at Ecuadorian Embassy

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange received deliveries that might have contained hacked documents while living at the Ecuadorian embassy in England, CNN reports.

Surveillance of meetings Assange held with various Russian citizens and "world-class hackers" while confined to the embassy shows when Assange, who has denied working for Russia, could have received the hacked materials that later appeared on his website. Assange also received deliveries of advanced computing and networking equipment during this time.

The surveillance was conducted for the Ecuadorian government by the Spanish private security company UC Global, and subsequently obtained by CNN and confirmed as authentic by an Ecuadorian intelligence official. According to these security logs, Assange personally managed some data leaks "directly from the embassy," and UC Global concluded it had "no doubt that there is evidence" of Assange's alleged ties to Russian intelligence.

Assange has been charged by the United States of leaking secret diplomatic cables and war logs from the Pentagon, provided by the former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning. The WikiLeaks founder began living in the Ecuadorian embassy in June 2012, after applying for asylum to avoid extradition to Sweden over sexual assault allegations.

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