On 21 August 2010, Radsoft (and Rixstep) began covering the case of Julian Assange in Sweden. We diverted considerable resources to following developments, as we thought them very important, this despite our need to keep our own work going. This continued for about eight months, after which we were forced to call it quits.

During these eight months, Wikileaks contacted us on several occasions, as far back as August 2010. We were asked to give them a timeline of Julian's activities in Stockholm and they offered to pay us GBP 5,000 for the effort. We sent them a link to Flashback and told them to keep the money, as they needed it more than we did.

We were again contacted shortly after Julian appeared at City University in that panel discussion. This contact was sent in a strange way. We were offered a copy of an article that had appeared behind a paywall at the London Times. We replied by showing them how we'd already covered the article in question.

We were again contacted in the beginning of November and told that Julian wanted to speak with us personally. A time was set up in the second week of November when Forbes traveled over for the interview and photoshoot for their cover story. We spoke with Assange for about twenty minutes - on a completely open connection.

We were asked if we could come to Diss. Preparations were underway for new big releases. They would provide accommodations until 23 December, after which we'd have to vacate. For health and other reasons we had to decline.

We were also told in advance of the imminent arrest of Julian Assange. This led to a discussion of how one would counter the 'smear'. Together with a Romanian girl in Tokyo, we concocted 'WL Central' which was registered the following day. Getting that site ready by - at the very latest - 17 November, the day before the coming arrest, had us punch-drunk with overwork and lack of sleep for a week. But we met the deadline.

This was all coordinated with Wikileaks who sat poised to 'tweet' out the news of the new site the moment it went online. A small mishap led to the use of the term 'Mayor' to describe Julian Assange, an epithet that sticks to this day.

When Julian finally surrendered to the police in England - when Marianne Ny finally got the form filled in correctly - he was at first denied bail. We worked all night before the hearing to assemble dossiers on all the 'dramatis personae' in the case. This was done very well from the solicitor point of view: what they were looking for was evidence that the legal people at the Swedish end were actually politicians, but they never said so - they wanted us to find the information on our own. This effort was successful: Assange was granted bail the following day and we could all rest for a day or two.

By early spring 2011, our situation had become untenable. Having abandoned our own work, we'd got into an impossible financial situation. Circumstance also led to our losing our Internet connection for about six weeks. When we finally got back online, Wikileaks was all over us, where have you been, we have so much work for you, etc.

We had to tell them that no, unfortunately, we could no longer help them, as our finances were shot. Then began a 48-hour session where they begged us to come back, enticing now with a monthly salary. We finally settled for an amount only USD 250 per month above the official European poverty line - for one person. (We were two who finally signed up. Getting by on so little was difficult.) (We also signed the notorious GBP 12 million NDA agreement. Assange was also supposed to sign as well, but they wormed their way out of that - typically.) At the end of those two days of negotiations, they told us: 'yay - we finally got you onboard!' From that moment, we were part of a prestigious inner circle of only 15-20 people who worked directly and on salary for Wikileaks, and we remained in that position for the next ten years (nine years and eight months).

An internal shuffle took place in 2013, a horrible year. Sarah Harrison, already in Australia to sort out the 'Wikileaks Party' mess, was asked to scoot over to Hong Kong to rescue Edward Snowden. Sarah knows the city well, having two sisters who live there.

But Sarah was the 'face' of Wikileaks, the real '#2' in the organisation. Sarah coordinated everything, including the payroll. Sarah had also told us that our position was inviolable, knowing that we really put ourselves on the line by abandoning our own work to help them out. Only USD 250 above the poverty line wasn't much, but we'd be OK with that - as long as it wasn't ever curtailed. At our end, we were in agreement that we could trust Sarah.

Once Sarah was in Hong Kong, and then Sheremetyevo, and then Moscow, and then Berlin, another member of staff moved in and effectively elbowed her out of the way. This new '#2' was also able to put distance between Assange and Sarah, to alienate them. Sarah told us that she was no longer allowed any time to communicate directly with Assange, this as 'thanks' for rescuing Snowden. (Sarah has been a very compassionate human being all along.)

The brunt of our work was in monitoring the case in Sweden, although there were numerous other assignments. But by early 2016, Assange seemed to have got cocky and thought he'd finally beaten or would soon beat the case in Sweden, and so we were cut back, something that was never supposed to happen. (We did not work exclusively on the Swedish case, although we also played an instrumental part in 'Justice 4 Assange'.) Life's been a panic ever since. Literally. Finally, in February of this year, ties were completely severed, and we were just shat on. No one cared about breaking past promises, or the ten years work we'd done for them. (And Sarah had been distanced from the organisation.) We were simply put out in the cold, with no means to recover our earlier work from ten years previously. We were left, in a word, destitute, even as Assange bragged online about how many millions he had in the bank. This callous side to Assange and his new 'staff' is something not widely known. Also not widely known is that he's been trying to entice new recruits, flashing a lot of cash around, all the while his staff are instructed to tell everybody that Wikileaks has no more money. This is the side of Assange that's not known. It's not known.

Wikileaks was something we really believed in. The sad truth is that a few people rode this incredible wave of notoriety only for personal gain. The whereabouts of Sarah Harrison is not known, but she's complained of 'psychological issues'.