Title: Assange on the Untold Story of the Grounding of Evo Morales' Plane During Edward Snowden Manhunt
Speaker: Julian Assange
Publisher: Democracy Now!
Publication date: May 28, 2015
URL: https://www.democracynow.org/2015/5/28/assange_on_the_untold_story_of
Retrieved: October 8, 2026
Format: Short attributed transcript extract, not a complete transcript or video copy.

Locator: Assange's account of using Bolivia to disguise another presidential-jet option, followed by his comparison with diversions during the Hong Kong escape. No video timecode is supplied.

Julian Assange:
"booking him on flights to India through Beijing and other forms of distraction, like Iceland"

Context: These are the Hong Kong diversions. Assange separately describes the Bolivia decoy after Snowden reached Moscow. He also says he recommended Russian protection, while Snowden wanted to avoid appearing to defect. The interview does not establish when that advice was communicated or accepted.