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The UK almost certainly knows whether Paul Manafort visited Julian Assange

By Tom Rogan
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The UK almost certainly knows whether Paul Manafort visited Julian Assange

I have no idea whether or not Paul Manafort visited Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. But the U.K. intelligence community almost certainly knows.

While the U.K. suspended its 24-hour police guard outside the Ecuadorian embassy in 2015, Britain’s MI5 security service has maintained intelligence coverage of Assange’s activities. That effort includes a particular focus on who Assange has met or communicated with and what they discussed.

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