Parmy Olson, the Forbes London bureau chief, is out with a new book called We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency. While we're working on a review, one tidbit caught our eyes: the only alleged online meeting between WikiLeak's Julian Assange and the infamous LulzSec hackers, including Hector "Sabu" Monsegur and Jake "Topiary" Davis.

In the book, Olson recounts a moment when an alleged WikiLeaks representative named "q" approached the LulzSec crew online. Suspicious at first, both Sabu and then Topiary apparently accepted that Julian Assange himself was present during these chats. So what does the world's most famous leak publisher need with the world's most famous hacking crew? Here's how the book describes the encounter (Gawker is running a short excerpt for those who want more detail):

A young WikiLeaks member had recently gone to Iceland and been arrested. WikiLeaks had also been bidding for access to a data center in an underground bunker but had lost out to another corporate bidder after the government denied them the space. Another journalist who supported WikiLeaks was being held by authorities. Assange and q appeared to want LulzSec to try and grab the e-mail service of government sites, then look for evidence of corruption or at least evidence that the government was unfairly targeting WikiLeaks. The picture they were trying to paint was of the Icelandic government trying to suppress WikiLeaks's freedom to spread information. If they could leak such evidence, they explained, it could help instigate an uprising of sorts in Iceland and beyond... It was already starting to look like LulzSec was on the road to becoming a black-hat version of WikiLeaks. If WikiLeaks was sitting on a pile of classified data that was simply too risky to leak, then it now had a darker, edgier cousin to leak it through.

The conversation as presented certainly suggests that WikiLeaks was involved in activities that went well beyond publishing leaked material. As Luke Allnutt of Radio Free Liberty/Europe wrote, "If the account in Olson's book is accurate then it's clear that at the very least WikiLeaks is prepared to solicit the help of hackers—rather than plain-old leakers—for information." But did it happen?

Though Allnutt's piece is based on Olson's account, the official WikiLeaks Twitter account shot out a message targeting Allnutt's work. "US 'Radio Free Liberty' pushes fabricated Assange-Sabu conspiracy on eve of extradition decision," said the message, a reference to today's UK Supreme Court decision to proceed with Assange's extradition to Sweden.

Given that Sabu had been turned by the FBI already, no such hacks were likely to be forthcoming. And in the end, nothing came of the alleged conversation.