…pervision, Lam was allowed to ask Snowden further questions about the NSA’s interception of communications in Hong Kong and China. He told her “I have had many opportunities to flee Hong Kong, but I would rather stay and fight the US govern...
Hong Kong
Named in 151 passages across 91 documents.
Mentions of Hong Kong in the public Epstein records, with citations.
Being named in these documents is not an accusation or evidence of wrongdoing. This page reflects only what the public records literally contain, with citations to the original sources.
Where Hong Kong appears
151 total
to the five-star Sheraton Hong Kong Tower, which, like the Mira hotel, was on Nathan Road in Kowloon. Her next task was to set up what was to be Snowden’s final interview in Hong Kong. It was scheduled for June 12th. The journalist chosen w...
…as, who taken a room at the hotel may have used her credit card or Snowden may have had another benefactor in Hong Kong. In any case, the lawyers escorted Snowden to a pre-arranged residence. “I am in a safe house for now,” Snowden wrote Gr...
…eeting the reporters. The place he chose was the five-star, $330 a day, Mira hotel in the Kowloon district of Hong Kong. He checked into room 1014 under his own name and provided the front desk with his own credit card. He next emailed Poit...
…tras’ associate at the Freedom of the Press Foundation, to build a personal website for him. Writing Lee from Hong Kong under both his alias Anon108 and his real name, Snowden said that he planned to post on it his “anti-surveillance manife...
for him in Hong Kong, Greenwald still had to overcome a final hurdle at the Guardian. He needed to get a green light to go to Hong Kong from Janine Gibson, the editor of the Guardian website, who was based in New York. Under Gibson’s leader...
o that no one else at the NSA would be suspected. He instructed her “Your destination is Hong Kong.” Poitras and Gellman were not the only journalists involved in the news event. Poitras also asked the hacktavist Jacob Appelbaum to help her...
…were safely aboard the plane. That measure would prevent Greenwald from releasing the story without coming to Hong Kong. He also sent Poitras an entire encrypted file of NSA documents, saying it would “include my true name and details for t...
…now essential to his plan. If he was to have any newspaper outlet, he needed to persuade Greenwald to come to Hong Kong. At this point, he took matters in to his own hands. On May 25, 2013, Snowden somewhat aggressively emailed Greenwald “Y...
use embarrassment for the NSA. Snowden proposed that Gellman join him in Hong Kong. In attempting to persuade him of the urgency of the trip, he wrote him that he had reason to believe that “omniscient State powers” imperiled “our freedom a...
…ed in this process. So PRISM could cause embarrassment for the NSA. Snowden proposed that Gellman join him in Hong Kong. In attempting to persuade him of the urgency of the trip, he wrote him that he had reason to believe that “omniscient S...
…e of Snowden’s plan. “I will tell you something I have never said before,” Putin said. Snowden "first went to Hong Kong and got in touch with our diplomatic representatives” and that he was told then that an American "agent of special servi...
…as no accident that Snowden wound up in the hands of Russia. He had been in contact with Russian officials in Hong Kong. Even before Putin admitted this liaison on September 3, 2013, the CIA knew about it. In fact, on June 23rd, t, Senator...
…ing” him, the government facilitated his return home. With his passport, he could have flown home from either Hong Kong or Moscow, where he, like any other person accused of a felony, would face the charges against him. Nor was it plausible...
…n decided against revealing the extent of Russian intelligence service's participation in Snowden’s move from Hong Kong to Moscow, or what intelligence services call an “exfiltration,” I was told by a Presidential National Security staff ad...
…elligence services seeking the treasure trove of documents he had taken from the NSA. Among other things, the Hong Kong lawyers moving him to a safe house were carrying easily traceable cell phones. The mystery that most concerned me was, h...
… video pirates. In addition, the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency had a handful of “China-watchers” in Hong Kong. This group constituted the intelligence “mission,” as he referred to it. After Snowden outed himself on the Internet, t...
or his position in the US mission in Hong Kong. The venue was the terrace lounge of the American Club in Exchange Square in central Hong Kong, a posh club mainly for expatriate Americans. It was on the 48th floor with a spectacular view of...
…ything at all that might do damage to the credibility of his client. “Not even where he was staying in May in Hong Kong,” I persisted. He leaned forward and, after a brief hesitation, said, jokingly I assumed that he would not divulge that...
’s law office in Hong Kong. But Ho politely declined to be interviewed by me, saying he had said all he was going to say about the Snowden case. I next made an appointment with Robert Tibbo, a Canadian-born barrister, specializing in civil...
Also named alongside
Want context across all of these passages at once?
Ask the documents about Hong Kong