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…ly in Russian (which I do not understand.) He cupped his hand over the phone and asked how long I would be in Moscow. After I told him that I was leaving on Friday, he spoke again in to the person on the other end. “You will have an appoint...
…nowden breach the supposedly formidable defenses of the NSA? Did he have any assistance? How did he escape to Moscow? And what was the final destination of the stolen documents? The purpose is to find answers to these questions. For this en...
…out a visa. We also know that a special operation was mounted to take Snowden off the plane once it landed in Moscow. Such an operation could not have been done without advance planning. Nor would he be removed from the plane without a plan...
… community would … see sources go dark that were previously productive, he told the editor of the Guardian in Moscow. In short, he advertised possessing precisely the priceless data that the Russian intelligence services had been seeking, w...
s he told Gellman of the Washington Post on December 21, 2013 in Moscow, “The mission’s already accomplished.” CHAPTER TWENTY NINE The Whistle Blower Who Became a Controlled Source “The [U.S.] government’s investigation failed—that they don...
…nce of an adversary intelligence services in Hong Kong and put himself of the hands of Russian authorities in Moscow. He also was willing to use some of his classified documents as a medium of exchange, if not bait, with journalist to get t...
… a view of the Kremlin and used all my remaining frequent travel miles to book a direct flight on Aeroflot to Moscow. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Vanishing Act “They talk about Russia like it’s the worst place on earth. Russia’s great.”—Snowden Mos...
…I was investigating him presented an opportunity. I asked Stone about the possibility of my seeing Snowden in Moscow. Stone did not offer to arrange such a meeting. He said only that I “might want to speak to Anatoly [Kucherena].” This conv...
… novel that would not claim any sophisticated philosophical conclusions." —Anatoly Kucherena Before flying to Moscow, I arranged to have dinner with Oliver Stone at Parma, an Italian restaurant on the upper east side of New York. I had grea...
ng from his new perch in Moscow, told applauding audience that the entire purpose of the U.S. exercise, including deliberately “trapping” him in Moscow, was to “demonize” him. For Russia, it was a textbook move. By providing Snowden with th...
…unications intelligence system in the world. Adding insult to injury, Snowden, speaking from his new perch in Moscow, told applauding audience that the entire purpose of the U.S. exercise, including deliberately “trapping” him in Moscow, wa...
rything he was doing and immediately fly to Hong Kong. He had, it will be recalled, already sent Poitras an enciphered file, and told her she would get the key once she and Greenwald followed his instructions. Presumably, he wanted Greenwal...
Tipped off by the CIA to the FBI’s error, Poteyev managed to escape by taking a train from Moscow to Minsk in Belarus. The CIA next exfiltrated him out of Belarus and to the United States. Poteyev had been saved from prison—or worse, but he...
…pplied to her by Poteyev. So Chapman had reason to believe Poteyev had betrayed her, When Chapman returned to Moscow after the spy exchange, she was taken to a well-publicized dinner with Putin. Afterwards, she informed her debriefer at the...
…1, the SVR became Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service. Its operation center was in the Yasenevo district of Moscow. The CIA had recruited Poteyev as its mole in the 1990s when he had been stationed at the Russian Embassy in Washington DC....
…lawyer for Snowden pro bono. On July 10, 2013, Snowden officially retained him as his legal representative in Moscow. From that point on, he would act as Snowden’s go-between with the FSB and other Russian agencies. At the outset, Kucherena...
…es and other facilities maintained by the FSB for the purposes of interrogation and security. Stranded at the Moscow airport, Snowden had no place to go except into the waiting arms of the FSB. No matter what he had believed earlier in Hong...
…on, which meant that, even without a valid passport or visa, Snowden could take the direct Aeroflot flight to Moscow. Snowden’s choice was going to Russia or going to prison. The Russians could have used this leverage in the Hong Kong scena...
…on, which meant that, even without a valid passport or visa, Snowden could take the direct Aeroflot flight to Moscow. Snowden’s choice was going to Russia or going to prison. The Russians could have used this leverage in the
ys before Snowden boarded Aeroflot 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 2...
