Assange angry at 'warts and all' book

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Assange autobiography on sale despite row
From: AAP
September 22, 2011 3:27PM

THE autobiography of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is set to go
on sale despite efforts by the Australian anti-secrecy campaigner to
suppress the book, its British publisher says.

The book - Julian Assange: The Unauthorised Autobiography -
reportedly includes his first direct comments on allegations of rape in
Sweden that led to the former computer hacker fighting an extradition
battle in Britain.

Publisher Canongate said it was the first
draft of Assange's autobiography as delivered to them in March 2011, and
that they were going ahead with publication despite Assange's attempts
to prevent them.

"On 7 June 2011, with 38 publishing houses
around the world committed to releasing the book, Julian told us he
wanted to cancel his contract," said Canongate, a small Scottish
publishing firm that beat larger rivals to sign the original deal.

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• WikiLeaks chief Assange condemns memoir Herald Sun, 6 hours ago
  
• Assange book to be released unofficially Herald Sun, 10 hours ago
  
• Assange can't squash autobiography Herald Sun, 14 hours ago
  
• Doubts grow on Wikileaks memoir Herald Sun, 8 Jul 2011
  
• Assange book still in the pipeline Herald Sun, 14 Apr 2011
  

"However, he had already signed his advance over to his lawyers to
settle his legal bills. We have decided to honour that contract and to
publish.

"Once the advance has been earned out, we will continue to honour the contract and pay Julian royalties."
Assange disowned the publication, saying in a press statement released on Thursday: "I am not 'the writer'."

The
former hacker accused Canongate of acting in breach of contract, and
called the book "a narrative and literary interpretation of a
conversation between the writer (ghost writer Andrew O'Hagan) and me.

"It is entirely uncorrected or fact-checked by me," he added.

Extracts from the book appeared in today's edition of British newspaper The Independent.

In
the first published excerpts, Assange describes his early days as a
hacker and his first run-ins with the law and claims that he may be
autistic.

"When I became well known, people would enjoy pointing
out that I had Asperger's or else that I was dangling somewhere on the
autistic spectrum. Let's just say I am; all hackers are," one extract
published in the Independent revealed.

Further passages document
Assange's teenage experiences of hacking into the US government's
defence network, describing it as "like being able to teleport yourself
into the interior of the Pentagon in order to walk
around and take charge".

The
publisher said Assange had spent more than 50 hours sitting for
interviews for the book at a friend's country house in eastern England
where he is staying under strict bail conditions.

"We disagree
with Julian's assessment of the book. We believe it explains both the
man and his work, underlining his commitment to the truth," it added.

The
Independent said on its website that an entire chapter was dedicated to
explaining his side of the allegations against him in Sweden, his first
full account of the events in which he is accused of sexually
assaulting two women.

"I have kept my own counsel about the matter until now," it quotes him as saying in the book.

"It
will be difficult to keep anger out of this account, owing to the sheer
level of malice and opportunism that have driven the case against me,
but I want to make this argument as much as possible in a spirit of
understanding."

In one excerpt, the author claims he met both
women - named only as A and W - in Sweden during the furore that
surrounded his website's leaking of sensitive US documents, before
having consensual sex with them.

"I did not rape those women and
can not imagine anything that happened between us that would make them
think so, except malice after the fact, a joint plan to entrap me, or a
terrible misunderstanding that was stoked up between them," he says.

"I
may be a chauvinist pig or some sort but I am no rapist, and only a
distorted version of sexual politics could attempt to turn me into one.
They both had sex with me willingly and were happy to hang out with me
afterwards."

Assange also reveals how a contact in an unnamed
intelligence agency told him that the American government was
considering dealing with him "illegally".

He said the source said
means such as planting drugs and child pornography or embroiling him
"in allegations of immoral conduct", were being discussed.

Warnings about the potential use of a "honeytrap" were also made by people close to him, the book says.

In
another passage, Assange talks about the "addictive" thrill of hacking
into the networks of high profile organisations, including the Pentagon
and NASA, as a young adult.

The book also features diatribes against Britain's The Guardian and the New York Times, the former partners of

WikiLeaks in its release of thousands of US diplomatic cables before the site fell out with the two newspapers.

Julian
Assange: The Unauthorised Autobiography goes on sale in the UK on
Thursday at STG20 ($A30) for a hardback or STG14.99 for the ebook, which
will also be available for purchase online in Australia.
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