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The son of US President Donald Trump Jr. confirmed that he corresponded with representatives of the WikiLeaks community during the election campaign last year. He published part of the correspondence on Twitter.

"There is a whole chain of messages from the correspondence with @wikileaks (including my three huge answers), which one of the US Congress committee has chosen for leakage. What irony!" - wrote the son of the American president.

The correspondence of Trump Jr. with Wikileaks began in September 2016 and continued at least until July 2017. However, he did not answer most of the community requests.

On the eve of the American publication The Atlantic reported that it got access to the correspondence of Trump Jr. and WikiLeaks. Correspondence was transferred to the congress committees, conducting investigations.

The US intelligence services believe that WikiLeaks was chosen by the Russian authorities to disseminate information obtained as a result of hacker actions. The community actively attracted Trump Jr. to cooperate. WikiLeaks drew his attention to the appearance of a new anti -gun site and handed over the password for access to closed materials. In the response letter, Trump Jr. thanked the community. Then Wikileaks asked him to provide Donald Trump's tax returns, called on Trump’s campaign on elections day to reject the results of the will on the basis that they were supposedly falsified. In addition, WikiLeaks asked for the elected US president to recommend Australia to appoint the founder of the community of Julian Assange as an ambassador to the UN, the publication reports.

On July 12, the director of the US Central Intelligence Directorate Mike Pompeo accused WikiLeaks of actions of the interests of Russia . “It is time to recognize WikiLeaks with what he really is - a non -state hostile intelligence service, incurred by such countries as Russia,” said Pompeo, speaking at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. “Wikileaks walks like a hostile intelligence and says as a hostile intelligence.”

At the same time, the head of the CIA referred to the conclusions of the American special services that Russian military intelligence used WikiLeaks to publish hacked correspondence of the election headquarters of the Democratic Party during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Pompeo said that WikiLeaks could no longer hide behind the "arguments of freedom of speech." “This is over,” the head of the special services said.