The story of Julian Assange and Wikileaks has unfolded like a Hollywood thriller complete with classified secrets, surveillance, court cases and chases alongside a who’s who of presidents, contenders, provocateurs, controversialists and spies. The images of a bearded, bewildered Julian Assange, looking haunted as he was frogmarched out of the Ecuadorean embassy, have been beamed across the world. He was seemingly in poor health and looked every bit the political martyr persecuted by the ‘deep state’. On closer inspection, it turned out that…