WikiLeaks in Swedish 'spy smear'

WIKILEAKS aims to release documents revealing that Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt is a US spy, as part of a ''smear campaign'' to stop Sweden from extraditing founder Julian Assange to the United States, a Swedish daily newspaper reports.

In an internal memo the whistleblower website has threatened to publish an unknown diplomatic cable ''where Foreign Minister Carl Bildt is shown to have been an informant for the United States since the 1970s'', The Expressen newspaper reported...

Assange, an Australian, is in Britain fighting extradition to Sweden where he is wanted for questioning on rape and sexual assault allegations, and WikiLeaks has long expressed concern that if he is sent to Sweden, Stockholm would send him to the US.

Washington is eager to lay hands on the WikiLeaks founder after the organisation's publication of hundreds of thousands of classified US diplomatic files.

The cable on Mr Bildt reportedly alleges he became an informant for the US in 1973 and his original contact was Republican strategist and former president George W. Bush's political guru Karl Rove.

http://www.theage.com.au/world/wikileaks-in-swedish-spy-smear-20120222-1tom9.html