Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, will write his memoir for $ 1.5 million, money that will pay the legal process which has been immersed and which seek to maintain Wikileaks.
“I’m not writing this book, but I have to,” said Julian Assange, who denies the accusations made against him. “I have already spent more than $ 300,000 in legal fees and I have to defend and maintain Wikileaks afloat. This has been a very successful smear campaign and a very wrong one.”
He was quoted in Sunday Times saying that he would receive 800,000 dollars (600,000 euros) from Alfred A. Knopf, his American publisher, and 325,000 pounds (380,000 euros, 500,000 dollars) from a British deal with Canongate.
The White House has called Assange’s release of the diplomatic cables “reckless and dangerous”.