Wednesday, June 17, 2020

CN Live! Spying on Assange: Fidel Narváez on UC Global






Fidel Narváez was consul and first secretary at the Ecuadorian embassy in London for eight years until 2018, during which WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange was there as a political asylee. He speaks of his experience with the security company UC Global, who spied on Assange and his visitors, including family, doctors and lawyers, on behalf of the CIA. Narváez also relates some of the "lies, exaggerations and misrepresentations" the company spread that were damaging to Assange's reputation and likely to diminish his support. He notes that this was one of the things the UN representative referred to as psychological torture, since Mr Assange was unable to refute the reports.