According to Iceland’s former minister of interior, the US sent a “planeload of FBI agents” to Iceland in June 2011 in an attempt to frame WikiLeaks and its co-founder Julian Assange. In an interview with the Katoikos publication, Ogmundur Jonasson who was the interior minister at the time, said the Obama administration implied to Icelandic authorities that they had knowledge of hackers who wanted to destroy software systems in their country and offered help. However, Jonasson became suspicious and refused to cooperate with the agents and asked them to cease their activities. The Obama administration sent a ‘plane load of FBI agents’ to frame Julian Assange. Iceland kicked them out: https://t.co/pMQhkv518n pic.twitter.com/QcR25exoPM — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) December 9, 2016 RT reports: However, Jonasson said he instantly became “suspicious” of the US good intentions, “well aware that a helping hand might easily become a manipulating hand.” Later in the summer 2011, the US “sent a planeload of FBI agents to Iceland seeking our cooperation in what I understood as an operation set up to frame Julian Assange and WikiLeaks,” Jonasson said. Icelanders seemed like a tough nut to crack, though. “Since they had not been authorized by the Icelandic authorities to carry [...]
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