Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has accused the CIA of drawing up plans to assassinate him.

Assange told the Council of Europe in Strasbourg on Tuesday: “CIA Director [Mike] Pompeo launched a campaign of retribution”

He claims that US government’s highest intelligence agency used various tools to surveil and harass him and his family during his fight against espionage charges.

InfoWars reports: Describing the Trump-era CIA chief and Attorney General Bill Barr as “two wolves in MAGA hats,” Assange detailed the extreme lengths the CIA and Justice Department went to try and eliminate him.

“It is now a matter of public record that under Pompeo’s explicit direction, the CIA drew up plans to kidnap and to assassinate me within the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and authorized going after my European colleagues, subjecting us to theft, hacking attacks and the planting of false information.”

Assange recalled his family, including his wife of two years and infant son, weren’t spared from the harassment.

“My wife and my infant son were also targeted,” he said.

“A CIA asset was permanently assigned to track my wife, and instructions were given to obtain DNA from my six-month-old son’s nappy.”

“This is the testimony of more than 30 current and former US intelligence officials speaking to the US press, which has been additionally corroborated by records seized in a prosecution bought against some of the CIA agents involved,” Assange said, leaving no doubt about the authenticity of his claims.

“The CIA’s targeting of myself, my family and my associates through aggressive extrajudicial and extraterritorial means provides a rare insight into how powerful intelligence organizations engage in transnational repression.”

“Such repressions are not unique. What is unique is that we know so much about this one due to numerous whistleblowers and to judicial investigations in Spain.”

Assange went on to advocate for press freedom and urged European lawmakers to pass laws protecting journalists.