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L2 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS tery I was going to solve on this first trip to Hong Kong. I needed to know more about his activities before he got there. After all, Snowden was not, as he himself pointed out from Moscow, an “angel descen...
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ghts to facilitate his escape from Hong Kong and sending him a helper. Taken together, these actions show that Snowden was determined to succeed where others before him had failed. He not only wanted to take full credit for stealing files f...
…remote surveillance was so effective in 2013 that the US State Department had instructed all its personnel in Hong Kong to avoid using their Iphones, Androids, Blackberries and smart phones when travelling to Hong Kong or China. Instead, it...
…w. Snowden’s choice was going to Russia or going to prison. The Russians could have used this leverage in the Hong Kong scenario to extract a quid pro quo. The price of admission in that quid pro quo was proving all his documents and puttin...
…e, if Alexander’s assessment in correct, might provide Putin with ample reason to have his representatives in Hong Kong offer Snowden an exfiltration deal. Snowden hardly was not in any position to refuse such a deal. After the release of t...
…with Poitras and Greenwald made it implausible to me that Snowden was under Russian control before he went to Hong Kong. The Hong Kong Scenario The second possibility is that Snowden was brought under Russian control while he was in Hong Ko...
…nder control by the Russian intelligence service: while he was still working for the NSA; after he arrived in Hong Kong on May 20, 2013; or after he arrived in Russia on June 23, 2013. The NSA Scenario The first scenario could stretch as fa...
…t flight SU213 to Moscow on June 23rd, the US had filed a criminal complaint against him. It had also alerted Hong Kong authorities and Interpol when it unsealed the complaint on June 21, 2013. And on June 21st it had invalidated his U.S. p...
…irthday celebration there on June 21, 2013. What we do know about Snowden’s interactions with the Russians in Hong Kong comes partly from Putin’s own description of them. Putin said, it will be recalled, that his decision to facilitate Snow...
… countries, or any other country, that Snowden is known to have dealt with directly during his 33 day stay in Hong Kong, was Russia. As previously discussed, he had dealings with Russian “diplomatic representatives “, as Putin called them....
… Interpol would issue its own “red notice” as soon as the US filed formal charges against him. At that point, Hong Kong airport authorities would be officially notified and could prevent him from leaving the city. Even if he somehow got out...
…uld entail a long court battle, Snowden asked him if he could avoid even being arrested. Tibbo explained that Hong Kong courts, which closely follow British law, would certainly issue an arrest warrant for him immediately after the US forma...
action by the U.S. On June 16th, the U.S. government informed the Hong Kong authorities that it had filed a criminal complaint against Snowden and would be seeking his extradition. Since Hong Kong had a vigorously enforced extradition agree...
… unclear. Subsequently, Harrison said she was setting up secret bank accounts to help organize escape, but in Hong Kong in 2013, Assange says she was using “Wikileaks’ resources.” Harrison said the “Wikileaks team” helped fund Snowden’s fli...
She caught the next plane out of Australia. After an eight hour flight, she arrived in Hong Kong on June 11th—the same day that Snowden texted Greenwald he was in a safe house. Harrison had her own connections in Hong Kong. Both her two you...
… quixotic election campaign for President of Australia, Assange now told her to forget the campaign and go to Hong Kong. Her mission there was to use Wikileaks resources to save Snowden from “a life time in prison.” Presumably, he also told...
… Snowden needed his help for his exit plan. He wanted Assange to use Wikileaks’ “resources” to get him out of Hong Kong. Assange considered it a surprising request since Snowden had not given any of the stolen documents to Wikileaks. In the...
into the computers of the Pentagon, the U.S. Navy, NASA, Citibank, Lockheed-Martin and Australia's Overseas Telecommunications Commission. At the age of 25, pleaded guilty to 25 charges of hacking in Australia, but was released on a good be...
…spected that she was being followed. That was likely since by this June 14th all the intelligence services in Hong Kong knew that she was in contact with Snowden. “I was being tailed,” she recalled in an interview with a Vogue reporter in B...
