By Amber Goodhand - Breaking Celebrity News News Editor

Jon Gosselin secretly gave the author of a controversial new anti-Kate book computer hard drives containing his then-wife’s personal journal and confidential information, a source close to the situation tells Breaking Celebrity News exclusively.

Robert Hoffman’s explosive tell-all book about Kate Gosselin was pulled off sale by Amazon after only two days after two powerhouse law firms alleged Hoffman violated trade secrets and copyright.

Hoffman has maintained he pulled Kate’s computer hard drive out of her trash and that Jon had nothing to do with his action. But now a source close to the situation tells Breaking Celebrity News exclusively that Jon hatched the scheme for his friend to obtain the hard drives!

"Jon made copies of Kate's hard drive and gave them to Rob as a sort of backup plan in case there was anything he needed in there while they were going through their divorce," the source claims.

Hoffman maintains he did not get any of the information from Jon, telling Breaking Celebrity News: "Regarding Jon, as stated clearly in the book, he had absolutely nothing to do with personally giving me any information whatsoever for the book. You should reach out to him personally to answer any questions about him."

Rob's book, Kate Gosselin: How She Fooled The World, is filled with what appear to be emails from Kate, the Discovery network, contracts and personal documents, many of which Rob reproduced in their entirety. (Breaking Celebrity News has independently verified that much of the material is genuine.)

The book also contains allegations that Kate has been violent with her children and allegations that cannot be repeated by Breaking Celebrity News because they have not been suff