UPDATED: After canceling a planned announcement
in London, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is now planning to appear
via video link Tuesday morning at Wikileak’s tenth anniversary
celebration in Berlin. He’s a last-minute addition to the roster of
festivities taking place this week in Germany.
Wikileaks used its Facebook page to
confirm that Assange would speak at the event, which takes place at 3am Eastern time.
Sources close to the event tell
Heat Street that Assange may
be planning to release some new information his organization has
obtained about the U.S. Democratic Party. But
Heat Street has yet to receive independent confirmation that Assange plans to dump information specifically on Hillary Clinton.
The news that Assange plans to appear (remotely) in Berlin comes
after Wikileaks abruptly canceled a much-anticipated announcement in
London that was to be made from the balcony of London’s
Ecuadorian
Embassy, where Assange has sought sanctuary for years. The cancelation
was first reported by NBC News. According to NBC’s Jesse Rodriguez, the
announcement was canceled due to “security concerns”.
There had been widespread anticipating that Tuesday’s announcement
might have been Assange’s long-promised document dump on Hillary
Clinton.