Information about those Swedish women involved in Assange's "rape" allegations

The other day I looked through a very long thread on Truthdig, comments to Chris Hedges’ “The Thought Police Are Coming,” which is about Assange’s tragic situation and its implications. I saw this comment by dmorista that read “Of course, both of the women who accused him of having unprotected sex (not rape in any standard definition of the word, the only place on Earth where unprotected consensual sex can be defined as Rape is Sweden) had a history of being CIA assets.” I was surprised, and answered, “I thought it was just one, and the other got roped in. Do you have a link?”

What dmorista did was extremely cool. She dug up an extensive answer, which I think deserves its own place for discussion. Here it is:

One of the women, Anna Ardin, had long-term connections to various right-wing Cuban Exile groups; including the notorious terrorist and murderer Luis Posada Carriles, whose bombing of a Cuban Airliner in 1976 killed the 73 people on board. She also published Anti-Castro articles and wrote a Master's Thesis the attacked the Cuban Government. This history of Ardin is available in a lot of articles, the best discussion I found is "Assange Rape Defense Underscores Shameful Swedish, U.S. Tactics", Andrew Kreig, < https://www.justice-integri... >.

The other woman, Sofia Wilen, is much more of a cipher, she does not have the public, easily tracked, history and ties to the intelligence agencies that Ardin has; but there is certainly evidence that she is at least being protected by powerful intelligence / covert action agencies. And could well be a deeper agent than the more obvious Arden. A 2014 article (the link to which was in the excellent article cited above, I almost gave up before I found that "Assange Rape Defense ..." article) about her, "Where in the world is Sofia Wilén?", points out that:

 "But since then all's been quiet. Sofia's no longer in Swedish public records. Her official address changed shortly after the events of August 2010, and since then no one's been able to find her. Although it's possible she simply got her personal details hidden by the tax authority, too many people connected with her have, just as she did back in 2010, scrubbed their Internet presence.

 "Sofia once had her own website sofiawilen.com, hosted by GoDaddy. There she had portfolios of her photographs, and at one time was to have had her photographs from Julian's talk in Stockholm. These photographs were to have been later replaced by photographs of dwarf rabbits using the same file names as the photos of Assange. After a patient wait until the Google caches caught up, all images were removed, the website was shut down, as were her blog, her Facebook page, and her Twitter account.

 "(Her Twitter account - number 267951659 - has been renamed a number of times and is now @xzzq; she has 72 tweets, is following 53 other accounts, including a number of political organisations, has 0 (zero) followers, and the account is protected.)

 "It was the thoroughness of this 'web scrubbing' that made people wonder. Her website was completely gone by 27 August, the only date for which the Wayback machine has anything at all, a mere week after her visit to the Stockholm Klara police station.

 "And right there one finds a huge quandary: the Wayback machine will not operate on websites specifically asking to not be recorded, but Sofia's isn't one of them. The suggestion's been that the site's robots.txt was doctored after the fact to give the appearance that it's always been possible to archive the site when it fact it has not. The person behind this is not your ordinary girl on the street, not even your ordinary web guru - it's someone with extremely esoteric knowledge not available to all.

 "It's long been assumed that no one is capable of entirely removing their web presence, but Sofia was totally gone. There are caches and the Wayback machine which records everything: there are just too many ways things stay online forever. But the old adage 'once it's on the Internet it stays there forever' didn't seem to apply in the case of Sofia Wilén. And as she doesn't seem to possess the credentials to do something so sophisticated herself, something even the experts deemed to be impossible, it's been suggested she had help - very very good help. And although there are people in her immediate family - notably her father - who can have had some experience with the web, the level of sophistication and thoroughness in the scrubbing of Sofia Wilén's web presence suggests a level of expertise unknown to almost everyone, save perhaps the NSA and the Swedish FRA.

 "Some people - most notably at Flashback - were able to find pictures of her at blogs and websites associated with, amongst others, her old boyfriend Seth; but as soon as these pictures were made public - in a matter of hours - the sites and blogs were shut down, indicating Sofia still keeps a close eye on the Flashback forum.

 "A particular thorn in her side seems to be the police documents which leaked in January 2011, were translated by Rixstep, became the basis of the book 'Assange in Sweden', and were submitted to the British court in Belmarsh as the official translation. This is something Sofia doesn't like: she's contacted a number of sites having copies, either in Swedish or English, and demanded they be taken down. (No one's complied.)"

 I took this rather long excerpt from "Where in the world is Sofia Wilén?" at <https://rixstep.com/1/20140... >.