Bernd Fix, a Chaos Computer Club researcher and founding board member of the Wau Holland Foundation, was involved in the organization’s support for WikiLeaks, which began operating officially in 2003 and was reportedly backed by the foundation from 2009. The source states that on July 18, 2016—the same day “Guccifer 2.0” sent Julian Assange an encrypted 1 GB file containing stolen Democratic National Committee emails—Fix and fellow German hacker Andrew Müller-Maguhn met Assange for at least four hours. Müller-Maguhn was later named in the Mueller report as a possible conduit for transferring hacked material, a characterization he denied.
Court documents reportedly identified Müller-Maguhn and Fix as priority targets of surveillance conducted by UC Global, a Spanish security contractor associated with protecting the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where Assange lived. The source does not establish that Fix personally transferred stolen emails, that the alleged conduit role was proven in court, or that the surveillance produced a criminal conviction. It instead documents how activists and technical intermediaries around WikiLeaks became subjects of intelligence scrutiny amid the 2016 election-hacking investigation, while Fix’s own account says he lost his job at SIX Financial Information after the foundation supported WikiLeaks.
