[Substack] POP QUIZ: How did Julian Assange first become famous?
ANSWER: In 2007, Assange and his new Wikileaks website helped destabilize Kenya. Assange interfered in Kenya’s general election, helping to trigger a bloodbath that killed more than 1,100 Kenyans.
Assange freely admitted his role in the Kenyan color revolution. In 2010, he boasted to The Guardian that Wikileaks had "changed the result" of Kenya's 2007 election. Such operations, said Assange, were part of Wikileaks' "important" "global role."
Of course, Assange was exaggerating, overinflating his own importance. He obviously did not change the result of Kenya’s election singlehandedly. Assange accomplished this only with massive help from a sovereign government. Kenya is a former British colony and its 2007 color revolution appears to have been a British operation. Wittingly or unwittingly, Assange synchronized his efforts with those of the British Foreign Office and George Soros. I have previously written about Soros' ties to the British establishment.
British Cut-Out?
On April 20, 2019, Martin Minns of The Star (Kenya) wrote an in-depth investigative report in which he revealed—among other things—that Wikileaks.org was registered in Nairobi in October 2006. It shared a PO Box with Mars Group Kenya, an NGO partly funded by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID).
Mars Group Kenya was founded by Mwalimu Mati and his wife Jayne in December 2006. Mati had formerly headed the Kenya office of Transparency International, a Soros-funded "anti-corruption" group based in Berlin.
Mati thus had strong links to the British government and to Soros’s NGO network. He was perfectly placed to act as a go-between—a cut-out—between Assange and the other participants in Kenya’s forthcoming color revolution.
Much evidence suggests that this is exactly the role Mati played in the operation.
The Kroll Report
Assange boasts that he triggered Kenya's 2007 color revolution by releasing a secret report from Kroll Associates UK Limited, a private intelligence firm in London. The report accused former Kenyan president Daniel Arap Moi of massive corruption.
By accusing Moi, the Kroll report cast a shadow on sitting president Mwai Kibaki—who was running for reelection with Moi’s endorsement. Wikileaks published the Kroll report on August 30, 2007. The UK newspaper The Guardian showcased the story the next day.
The Star (Kenya) later quoted Assange saying that he had chosen the release date for "political timing"; that the leaked report "swung the election" by "shifting the vote 10 per cent"; and that Assange believed his actions had "changed the world."