Where Kucherena appears
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204 “T don’t know him, but I know someone who does,” he answered. “Why are you interested in seeing Kucherena?” I told him that I wanted to speak to him about Snowden but that I had been unable to arrange a meeting. “That’s no problem,” he...
…CA LOST ITS SECRETS SHEVARDNADZE: SO he [Snowden] does have some materials that haven’t been made public yet? KucHERENA: Certainly. Shevardnadze asked the next logical question: “Why did Russia get involved in this whole thing if it got not...
…you.” “I will send the wiring instructions” Valentina said as I left. “I hope you come back to Moscow.” While Kucherena did not arrange an interview with Snowden, as I had hoped, he did something I considered more important. He confirmed th...
ith him in Russia, Kucherena had said “certainly.” Was this exchange accurate? “It was accurate,” he answered. Snowden himself had said in Hong Kong that he had only given journalists some of the state secrets he had stolen and that he deem...
dinner party than an interview about Snowden. As Kucherena did not speak English, I brought Zamir along to translate for the conversation, but Valentina also spoke very good English. She apologized for the delay in responding to my requests...
subsequent developments in the still-lingering Polonium investigation, I asked him if he knew Kucherena. “I don’t know him, but I know someone who does,” he answered. “Why are you interested in seeing Kucherena?” I told him that I wanted to...
that someone still had access to the documents that were not distributed to journalists in Hong Kong. Kucherena’s disclosure just before the first post-Hong Kong release that Snowden still had access to the NSA files made it appear plausibl...
…yed the electronic files of NSA documents that he had not distributed to journalists. He still had them, when Kucherena had reviewed his files in Russia. Kucherena’s disclosure that Snowden retained these crucial documents did not contradic...
…ake these documents with him to Russia? Shevardnadze, who makes it a point to drill her interviewees, pressed Kucherena as to whether Snowden still had these NSA files, or “material” in Russia. The dialogue went as follows (from the transcr...
… around the world, such as South by Southwest, TED, and other Internet conferences. Snowden was, according to Kucherena, was also furnished with bodyguards. To help earn his keep, he was employed at an unidentified Moscow cyber-security fir...
… since Stone was making a fact-based movie using the actual names of the characters. “Is your script based on Kucherena’s “Time of the Octopus?” I asked. “No,” Stone replied, “I haven’t used it.” He said that the payment was for what he ter...
” Zamir wrote me. “His name is Kucherena.” Since
Kucherena had said “certainly.” Was this
he left the room with Kucherena and Harrison
Kucherena said Snowden still had access to the documents.
it may have not been a pure coincide that Kucherena’s
it would be consistent with Kucherena’s assertion that Snowden had
when Kucherena had reviewed his files in
according to Kucherena. When they discussed Snowden’s legal
I asked Kucherena about Oliver Stone. I knew
