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At the time of this writing, the Wikipedia entry on Julian Assange (link) mentions the CIA exactly once, in conjunction with Mike Pompeo's description of Wikileaks as a hostile non-state intelligence service. Was it always so?
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The Assange Wikipedia entry had been edited 7645 times at the time we examined it. Revisions containing "CIA" turn up in late 2010, mid 2014, and mid 2018-present. The most recent are related to Pompeo, and the 2014 content is a rambling section that was eventually removed. . .
2010: The first attempt to add "CIA" to the Assange Wikipedia article consists of pure trolling, but the second includes the theory that one of Assange's accusers is a CIA plant, followed by mention of the CIA being added elsewhere in the article over the next two months.
2010 called. It wants its conspiracy theory back.
