Brit and US spies in danger after WikiLeaks publishes top-secret CIA spyware document

BRITAIN’S spooks could be exposed and endangered after WikiLeaks’ latest dump of top-secret CIA surveillance technology, experts warn.

The huge leak of classified material came as the anti-secrecy group yesterday celebrated Sweden's decision to drop a rape probe into founder Julian Assange.

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But international spy agencies, including the CIA and MI6, are furious that one of the most up-to-date tracking tools has been revealed, reports The Telegraph.

Meanwhile,  Assange, who has been holed up at the Ecuadorian embassy in London since 2012, tweeted, “I do not forgive or forget”.

Sean Sullivan, security adviser at F-Secure, told the : “It looks to me like a classic back door, which is extremely useful if you want to track an individual.

“If someone’s going through airport security, for example, a CIA agent would have the ability to put this on, track him around the world, have a back door and the computer calls home to us.

“The bigger concern for them, because this involves human intel, is that now that this has been leaked the people who might still have this on their computers will be able to find it, and they might be able to find out who the asset is working for the CIA.”

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Assange, 45,  has been holed up inside London’s Ecuadorian embassy since 2012 in an attempt to avoid the probe – at a cost of £15million to the British taxpayer.

The Aussie has refused to quit the embassy despite the probe being dropped, raising the spectre of the £15million bill to police the area around the bolthole growing even further.

If he does leave the  embassy, one top extradition lawyer said the US will have a short "window of opportunity" to nab Assange if the Met chooses to arrest him for skipping bail and fleeing to the embassy five years ago.

Julian Knowles told The Sun: "The CPS could say: 'We’ll get him on Bail Act offence and he’ll likely get a couple of days in prison at most.'

"That would then give the US a short window of opportunity to file a provisional extradition request.

"But the UK cannot just hold him."

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