A renown American magazine, The National Examiner, specializing in disclosing materials, reported about a threat to the site administrator of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, from the k FSB Russia. The website reports in an article by its journalist Bill Belew:

"The latest round of Wikileaks materials has embarrassed the Obama Administration, creating a diplomatic crisis. However, their next target, Russia might not play as nicely as the US.

Access by the military to some of the United States' most sensitive diplomatic information was cut off on Tuesday cut, after Wikileaks released a torrent of information that embarrassed and outraged governments around the world.

  It is believed that a former enlisted Army corporal, Bradley Manning, was behind much of the released documents. It appears that he'll never see the light of day again, facing a likely life in prison sentence.

  In another Wikileak development, "National security officials say that the National Security Agency, the U.S. government's eavesdropping agency, has already picked up tell-tale electronic evidence that WikiLeaks is under close surveillance by the Russian FSB, that country's domestic spy network, out of fear in Moscow that WikiLeaks is prepared to release damaging personal information about Kremlin leaders".

  Maybe Wikileaks leader Julian Assange missed this memo, the Russians play for keeps. They are very good at taking out people who say too much. Perhaps this is one reason he is on the move so much".

  The National Examiner provides a link to the U.S. portal Hot Air, which first citing the following first 3 paragraphs from the American newspaper The Daily Beast, and then, starting from the 4^th paragraph, is written on their own, in a message dated 30 November:

"American intelligence and law-enforcement agencies, outraged by their inability to stop WikiLeaks and its release this week of hundreds of thousands of sensitive U.S. diplomatic cables, are convinced that the whistle-blowing website is about to come up against an adversary that will stop at nothing to shut it down it (obviously to kill Assange - KC): The Russian government.

Employees of National Security said that the National Security Agency United States, National Security Agency (NSA), the American governmental structures dealing with wiretap, has already received containing hints of electronic evidence, that the Russian FSB Wikileaks is closely related to fear of Moscow, caused by the fact that Wikileaks to release information damaging personally Kremlin leaders.

  National security officials say that the National Security Agency, the U.S. government's eavesdropping agency, has already picked up tell-tale electronic evidence that WikiLeaks is under close surveillance by the Russian FSB, that country's domestic spy network, out of fear in Moscow that WikiLeaks is prepared to release damaging personal information about Kremlin leaders.

  "We may not have been able to stop WikiLeaks so far, and it's been frustrating," a U.S. law-enforcement official tells The Daily Beast. "The Russians play by different rules."

  He said that if WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, follow through on threats to post highly embarrassing information about the Russian government and what is assumed to be massive corruption among its leaders, "the Russians will be ruthless in stopping WikiLeaks."

  The Russians, under the leadership of former KGB (now FSB) officer Vladimir Putin, have not blanched at, well, much of anything.  The death of Alexander Litvinenko from a slow-acting poison is widely believed to have been an assassination conducted by the FSB.

  The poisoning of Ukrainian leader Viktor Yushchenko in the Orange Revolution was similarly suspicious, and dissident Boris Berezovsky survived at least one attempt on his life as well.

  That problem may be more acute for the people who supplied Assange with the data rather than Assange himself. The FSB has restrained itself mainly to attacking Russian expatriates (and what about a murder of Kaczynski? - KC) rather than Westerners, but as the DB reports, Wikileaks almost certainly got whatever they have through that route, especially from the super-rich Russian industrialists that had to flee after Putin took power.

  Given Assange's predilection for releasing information in its raw form, the FSB will likely have little problem finding the sources of the data and making sure that they won't give Assange anything else ever.

  Russia will most likely contain itself to cyberwarfare on a massive scale to shut down Assange rather than violence.  If they succeed, they may wind up doing Barack Obama a huge favor, since the continuing exposure of communications data has the White House continually on the defensive.  But if someone winds up grabbing Assange, he may want to pray that it's the Americans rather than the FSB".

  It is to be noted that this information by American media outlets is confirmed from an independent source, unknown by these media outlets at the time of publication. Therefore, by the standards of American journalism (Russian journalism have no rules, they are simply branches of the KGB/FSB), it is a reliable information.

We are talking about a threat to Assange from  the SVR. As for the Russian terrorist gang FSB, it operates in this case without drawing attention to it with new threats. Previous threats have been openly made 2 weeks ago. 

Russia wants to destroy WikiLeaks

According to the American newspaper The Daily Beast, as U.S. officials struggle to control damage from the secret cables, Russia is planning to block a similar dump about the Kremlin. And they will be ruthless, Philip Shenon reports.

American intelligence and law-enforcement agencies, outraged by their inability to stop WikiLeaks and its release this week of hundreds of thousands of sensitive U.S. diplomatic cables, are convinced that the whistleblowing website is about to come up against an adversary that will stop at nothing to shut it down: the Russian government.

Representatives of the national security agencies say that the National Security Agency, responsible for intercepting the information already received electronic evidence that WikiLeaks is under the close supervision of Russia's domestic spy organization the FSB. The reason for such control is simple: Moscow fears that WikiLeaks is preparing to publish compromising personal information about the Kremlin's leaders.

   National-security officials say that the National Security Agency, the U.S. government's eavesdropping agency, has already picked up tell-tale electronic evidence that WikiLeaks is under close surveillance by the Russian FSB, that country's domestic spy network, out of fear in Moscow that WikiLeaks is prepared to release damaging personal information about Kremlin leaders.

  "We may not have been able to stop WikiLeaks so far, and it's been frustrating," a U.S. law-enforcement official tells The Daily Beast. "The Russians play by different rules." He said that if WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, follow through on threats to post highly embarrassing information about the Russian government and what is assumed to be massive corruption among its leaders, "the Russians will be ruthless in stopping WikiLeaks."

  A U.S. military official said the U.S. assumed that WikiLeaks had access to sources who could supply the site with detailed, damaging information about Russian leaders; those sources would likely include wealthy Russian expatriates who have had the resources over the years to conduct far-ranging private investigations of graft among Kremlin leaders, including their movement of assets outside Russia.

  Anatol Lieven, a professor at King's College in London who specializes in Russian and military affairs, said he believed the Russians would be ready to consider aggressive cyberwarfare techniques to shut down WikiLeaks and its website, as well as violence and other threats against Russians who were believed to be informants. (American officials have said they have no direct evidence to suggest that Russia was behind the cyberattack that has shut down the WikiLeaks website since Sunday.)

  "I doubt that they would consider assassination against Westerners who are involved in WikiLeaks, but as for informants in Russia, they would be in very serious danger," he said.

  The London-based Russian billionaire and newspaper magnate Alexander Lebedev suggested that a government raid on the Moscow headquarters of his National Reserve Bank this month may have been a response to recent contacts between his Moscow newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, and WikiLeaks.

  Lebedev, who is outspoken in his criticism of government corruption in his homeland-which he has described as comparable to the "evils of apartheid" in South Africa-has acknowledged that one of his reporters recently traveled to Sweden to meet with Assange.

  Assange has courted attacks from the Russian government, telling a reporter from the pro-government daily newspaper Izvestia last month that WikiLeaks had obtained damaging information "about Russia, about your government and businessmen" and "we will publish these materials soon." Another WikiLeaks spokesman was quoted as describing the Russian government as "despotic."

  The trove of State Department documents made public this week by WikiLeaks includes several cables in which U.S. diplomats are critical of Russian leaders, describing President Dmitry Medvedev as "pale and hesitant," serving as "Robin" to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's "Batman." In another, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is quoted as saying that "Russian democracy has disappeared and the government is an oligarchy run by the security services."

  Lieven, a former journalist who reported extensively in the former Soviet Union, said the State Department cables had, it appeared, created no significant embarrassment for Russian leaders or for U.S.-Russian relations. "So far, what's come out has not surprised or shocked anybody," he said.

  The alarm in Moscow, he said, would be over what comes next, especially if WikiLeaks has obtained bank records or other detailed evidence of corruption among Russian leaders-the sort of information that WikiLeaks and its supporters have said that the site is eager to obtain and publish.

  The Russian government has so far dismissed the threat posed by WikiLeaks. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters this week that he was perplexed by the amount of interest shown in Assange-a "petty thief running around on the Internet."

  Russian intelligence agencies have suggested, none too subtly, that WikiLeaks could be destroyed through cyberwarfare methods if the whistleblowing site did begin to create trouble in Moscow.

  Last month, the Russian news agency Life News quoted an official from the FSB's Center for Information Security as saying that the government would be capable of organizing "the right team" to target WikiLeaks and "shut it down forever" (in other words to kill the site's founder Assange - KC)