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as well as establishing his credentials among
a part of China. It was a safe venue for
2013; or after he arrived in Russia on June 23
“We absolutely need to know what Russia’s
it can be assumed that after he fled to Moscow
often at the highest level of a government
a decision would have to be made whether the value
if a walk- in believed he was already compromised
“there are very few cases in which the same individual
” a CIA memorandum on walk- ins during the
” or mole. “While defectors can and do provide
1961. He asked to see the CIA officer on duty
the KGB major Anatoliy Golitsyn was an ideological
who successfully penetrated the FBI for the Russian
who fed the CIA secrets for over ten years while
in light of the lax background checks for outside
before he had begun working at the center
he would have had to transfer the files to an
Snowden had been working at the Threat Operations