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…ong Kong on May 20th 2014– the same day that Snowden had arrived there the previous year. I checked into the five-star Mira Hotel. It was in the Tsim Sha Tsui shopping district of Kowloon, a 10-minute ferry ride away from Hong Kong island, where most of the foreign consulates ar...

…d their cell phones to text one another, it was fairly easy for the mission to follow Snowden’s trail after he left the Mira hotel. Presumably, the Hong Kong Police also knew where he was during this period. My source further suspected that the massive Chinese intelligence contin...

…NBECK DIANE SCHATTIE RICHARD SCHULHOF RUDOLPH B & HANNELORE MACK RUTH HIRSCH RICHARD & MELTZER JERALDINE SPEKTOR ERYK & MIRA CHANIN LEONA F SILVER ADRIANNE NEWMAN BRUCE & JUDITH TRS SIX NINE THREE SIX THREE SCHNEIDER RITA CABLE ANDREW & MILLER MARTIN H STEINBERG RICHARD E & R GOR...

…every trick in the book is likely to be used in looking into this.” The journalists arrived the evening of June 2. The Mira hotel can be entered by guests both through a ground- floor lobby with a restaurant and a smaller third-floor lobby that connects to the Mira shopping mall...

…arges. 6 “It’s very mysterious”: Hayden, interview with author. 6 My first surprise: I interviewed six members of the Mira staff, all of whom asked me not to identify them. Te-Ping Chen, a journalist for the Asian edition of The Wall Street Journal, received similar replies whe...

…t had been issued against him, and there was no Interpol red alert for his deten- tion. He could have walked out of the Mira hotel, caught a taxi to the Hong Kong airport, and gone on Swiss International Air Lines via Zurich to any country in South America or to Iceland. But, as...

19 room at the Mira hotel from June 3 to June 9", 2013, as the event was actually unfolding. Snowden, speaking for the camera, describes himself as a civilian contractor for the National Security Agency. He took full responsibility for the theft of classified documents, saying t...

the US consulate is not down the road from the Mira in Kowloon

even personally escorting Snowden from the Mira Hotel on

…d his belongings into a backpack and moved, without notifying the front desk, to another room Poitras had rented at the Mira. Complicated schemes, especially when they involve transferring state secrets to unauthorized parties in a for- eign country, do not necessarily go as plan...

…ic Barton Gellman: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras in Hong Kong: AP Photo/John Minchillo Mira hotel: Courtesy Ena and Ines Talakic Room 1014 at the Mira: Courtesy Ena and Ines Talakic Keith Alexander: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite Vladimir Putin: AP...

at 10 AM on June 3™ she and Greenwald went to the Mira restaurant. They

also received some similar replies when she interviewed Mira hotel employees the

For Milo (who can now read this) and for Max, Mira, and Jonah HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023735

…of the largest theft of top secret documents in the history of the United States. In the entire filmed interview at the Mira hotel, for example, they did not ask their source how he managed to get access to the documents. Lam, however, asked him about how he widened his access. W...