Wikileaks founder Julian Assange claims that Google has an agreement with the U.S. administration and the highest levels of the U.S. government. He took part in the 19th International Symposium on Electronic Art via live video link and said that Google serves as the "echo" of the U.S. authorities.
Assange says that Google and the U.S. State Department have been cooperating for a long time. In 2011 Assange met with Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen, the young hotshot who is head of Google Ideas and with Lisa Shields, a vice president at the Council on Foreign Relations. At that time the three of them were going to interview Assange for Schmidt’s book: “The New Digital Age: Re-shaping the Future of People, Nations and Business”, but the head of Wikileaks now says that the motives of their visit were completely different.
“Google wants to ingratiate itself in the national security complex of the US and [establish] itself as a new geopolitical visionary. You might think this meeting is evidence that the big boys at Google are secretly on the side of WikiLeaks. That's not true; they have a much more complex agenda", claims Assange.
Assange is sure that the representatives of Google are agents of the State Department. Besides they also perform at the request of the CIA "doing stuff the government and CIA can't do". In return, the company receives approval for some projects and patronage from the authorities.
As a further confirmation, Assange recalled Washington’s high concern about any leaks from Google and cyberattacks on the company.
