The Stratfor cables on Venezuela are among the disclosures John Kiriakou cites when asked to say what Julian Assange actually revealed, in an interview given while Assange remained in British custody.
The claim
Kiriakou lists the disclosures in ascending order of obscurity. After the case of a German citizen seized by a CIA snatch team and abused in a black site in a case of mistaken identity — “if it weren’t for julian assange and wikileaks we wouldn’t even know about this case” — he turns to the diplomatic material.[1]
“you also have cablegate where we saw the state department engaging in illegal activity in sovereign countries to topple their government training opposition figures uh that we saw through the stratfor cables exposed on wikileaks training opposition figures like juan guido and his mentor leopoldo lopez to overthrow the venezuelan government plotting to uh sabotage dams inside venezuela to help overthrow hugo chavez.”[1][2]
The inference
What Kiriakou draws from the list is a motive for the prosecution. “the list goes on and on and on these are details few journalists even know and that’s why i think they’re after assange and are seeking to kill him in slow motion by prolonging his imprisonment for as long as possible.”[2]
His position on the offence itself is stated in the same interview and separately at the sources and methods red herring: that Assange revealed no sources or methods, and that his actual crime was “embarrassing the powers that be in washington.”[3]
The Guaidó claim connects the disclosure directly to the operational sequence Kiriakou describes at the Caracas checklist, where the co-option of opposition figures precedes the physical seizure of a capital.