Someone spray-painted graffiti, including the name of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, on this landmark barn at Scio Church Road and Oak Valley Drive. Lisa Carolin | For AnnArbor.com

Someone vandalized the well-known "" barn near the intersection ofand, writing the name offounderand what appear to be a number of symbols on the east wall of the barn.

“In all the years we’ve lived here, it’s the first time it’s been defaced,” said Katie Parker, who owns the bright red barn in Lodi Township with her husband Bill Parker. The familiar landmark sports the M Go Blue slogan spelled out in shingles on its roof.

Parker said the graffiti appears to have been written in gray-green spray paint. Mowers the couple hired discovered the vandalism today, but Parker said it could have happened any time within the past 3 days.

She said she doubted that the vandalism was connected to today's Michigan football game against Notre Dame, since the graffiti doesn't reference football.

The couple has owned the barn since 1992 and had its roof adorned with the familiar University of Michigan slogan either that year or the following one, said Katie Parker, a U-M graduate.

Starting last year, WikiLeaks released tens of thousands of cables from the U.S. State Department, prompting complaints from the Obama Administration that Assange was threatening national security and even risking the lives of some sources.

Parker said she and her husband contacted the Washtenaw County sheriff’s department and University of Michigan police to report the vandalism.