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[DECEMBER DRAFT--- 287 pages] THE SNOWDEN AFFAIR A Spy Story in Six Parts By Edward Jay Epstein CONTENTS PROLOGUE On the Snowden Trail: Hong Kong 2014...

Wall Street Journal, December 30, 2016 The Fable of Edward Snowden As he seeks a pardon, the NSA thief has told multiple lies about what he stole and his dealings with Russian intelligence. EDWARD JAY EPSTEIN Of all the lies that Edward Snowden has told since his massive theft o...

206 “When I accepted the case, I received Snowden’s dossier.” He answered. “I was able to see all his interviews.” Presumably Snowden’s dossier included his interviews with the FSB, SVR and other Russian security services. If so, it would explain how Kucherena could be so certa...

316 | Notes to pages 113-121 109 first live interview in Moscow: Snowden met with James Bamford, the author of the 1982 book The Puzzle Palace, in Moscow in June 2014. Bamford, “Edward Snowden.” CHAPTER 13 The Great Divide 113. “That moral decision”: Edward Snowden, statement,...

218 Snowden to come to Russia. Putin’s s decision no doubt set in motion the operation to exfiltrate him on Aeroflot, the state-controlled airline. We know that the Russian government acted in advance to facilitate Snowden’s trip from Hong Kong. Without such an intervention, it...

… My government revoked my passport intentionally to leave me exiled” and “chose to keep me in Russia.” According to Mr. Snowden, the U.S. government accomplished this entrapment by suspending his passport while he was in midair after he departed Hong Kong on June 23, thus forcing...

…ace to Hide, pp. 10-15. cHAPTER 8 Raider of the Inner Sanctum 73 “They think there’s a smoking gun”: Bamford, “Edward Snowden.” 74 system for stratifying its data: Michael McConnell, interview with King, “Ex- NSA Chief Details Snowden’s Hiring at Agency, Booz Allen.” 74 Snowden...

[2 Hong Kong. This group constituted the intelligence “mission,” as he referred to it. After Snowden outed himself on the Internet, the mission began tracking Snowden’s movements. Since Snowden, his lawyers and the journalists in his entourage frequently used their cell phones t...

106 according to Assange, Snowden claimed that one reason he decided to take the secret NSA documents was the brutal treatment of Bradley Manning after he was arrested in 2010 by the US government. “Snowden told me they had abused Manning in a way that contributed to his decisio...

…view to Sophie Shevardnadze, a journalist for Russia Today television. When Ms. Shevardnadze directly asked him if Mr. Snowden had given all the documents he had taken from the NSA to journalists in Hong Kong, Mr. Kucherena said Mr. Snowden had only given “some” of the NSA’s doc...

…ee notable exceptions, the flights to them had stopovers in a country that was an ally of the US, and which could seize Snowden. The three exceptions were China, North Korea (via China) and Russia. The only one of these three countries, or any other country, that Snowden is know...

…ad access to them at any point during his journey from Honolulu to Moscow. When I later asked Kucherena in Mos- cow why Snowden changed his story in direct contradiction of what Kucherena had stated, he said, “Wizner.” He was referring to Ben Wizner, Snowden’s ACLU lawyer in Was...

[92 about Snowden for Sony. Stone said that the million dollar deal with Kucherena effectively guaranteed that any competing project would not have access to Snowden. Sony consequently put the competing film on hold. To be sure, it is not unusual for a lawyer to negotiate a dea...

… in Hong Kong before he became a suspect. If they had immediately flown to Hong Kong that May, it still might have left Snowden an escape window. As Snowden found out, when dealing with journalists, things do not always go as planned. Greenwald, although agreeing to come to Hong...

…ve been working on”: Greenwald, No Place to Hide, 11. Continuing his string pulling : Greenberg, “These Are the Emails Snowden Sent to First Introduce His Epic NSA Leaks.” asked Appelbaum to help: Appelbaum, “Edward Snowden Interview.” Greenwald was awaiting: Greenwald, No Plac...