WikiLeaks files expose group’s inner workings

By Associated Press

Published September 17, 2018 8:30pm ET

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WikiLeaks files expose group’s inner workings — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrives at Belmarsh Magistrate's court in London for an extradition hearing on Jan. 11, 2011. | (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

LONDON — Julian Assange had just pulled off one of the biggest scoops in journalistic history, splaying the innards of American diplomacy across the web. But technology firms were cutting ties to his WikiLeaks website, cable news pundits were calling for his head, and a Swedish sex crime case was threatening to put him behind bars.

Caught in a vise, the silver-haired Australian wrote to the Russian Consulate in London.

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