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168 Despite all the potential flaws in it, the outsourcing system, ii seemed to work until 2013. It even featured a revolving door through which Booz Allen, for example, hired retiring executives from the intelligence services, such as ex-NSA director Michael McConnell, R. James...

Snowden could take the direct Aeroflot flight to Moscow. Snowden’s

Chapter Twenty-Four Dinner with Oliver Stone Chapter Twenty-Five Vanishing Act Chapter Twenty-Six through the Looking Glass Chapter Twenty-Seven the Handler PART SIX CONCLUSIONS Chapter Twenty-Eight Snowden’s Choices Chapter Twenty-Nine = The Whistle Blower Who Became an Espion...

…s secret operations had been compromised after Snowden went to Moscow. According to a 2015 story in the Sunday Times of London, British intelligence had deter- mined that Britain’s intelligence-gathering sources had been exposed to adversary services by documents that Snowden had...

…extraordinary risk he was taking. After all, “Citizen 4” had no way of knowing who she else she told about him. She had long been concerned, with good reason that the U.S. government was out to get her. An unknown person offering to supply her with secret documents could be attem...

…y access to either Kucherena or Snowden. But I had another contact in Moscow. When I had been investigating the 2006 Polonitum poisoning of ex-KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko in London, I had interviewed a number of people in Moscow, including Andrei Lugovoy. A former KGB offic...

217 CHAPTER TWENTY NINE The Whistle Blower Who Became a Controlled Source “The [U.S.] government’s investigation failed—that they don’t know what was taken” —Edward Snowden in Moscow In Moscow I had learned that Russian intelligence services use the broad, umbrella term “esp...

Contents Prologue Snowden’s Trail: Hong Kong, 2014 000 part onE SNOWDEN’S ARC CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 3 CHAPTER 4 CHAPTER 5 CHAPTER 6 CHAPTER 7 CHAPTER 8 CHAPTER 9 Tinker 15 Secret Agent 22 Contractor 28 Thief 38 Crossing the Rubicon 44 Hacktivist 49 String Puller 5...

Tinker | 21 CIA. By 2004, he had joined the FBI as the section head of its avia- tion and special operations. In this capacity, he supervised the joint CIA-FBI interrogation of the prisoners in the Guanténamo base in Cuba, which involved him in the rendition program for terroris...

211 operations, he could have done the entire operation at Dell. He even could have sent Poitras documents anonymously over his own TOR software and server. And he could have remained in his self-described “paradise” in Hawaii with his girl friend. Yet he chose to move to Booz...

152 If Snowden could cause such massive damage, so could other civilian trainees at the NSA. Someone in the chain of command had to take responsibility, General Alexander tendered his resignation on June 30", 2013. “ I’m the director, “he said, falling on his sword. “Ultimately,...

Whistle-blower | 97 stay and fight the United States government in the courts.” That bit of braggadocio would not be proven out. Greenwald, Poitras, and MacAskill in their reporting did not concern themselves with any of the mechanics of the largest theft of top secret document...

…was well acquainted with her career as an anti-surveillance activist. He said that he had read Greenwald’s account in Salon that past April, a blog in which Greenwald detailed the forty times in which Poitras was searched by U.S. authorities. The story also said that Poitras beli...

Selected Bibliography SELECTED BOOKS Andrew, Christopher. The Sword and the Shield. New York: Basic Books, 2000. Bagley, Tennent H. Spy Wars: Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2008. Bamford, James. The Puzzle Palace. Boston: Houghton...

298 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS suggested they had been interested in acquiring radioactive isotopes. Without the advance warning that the NSA’s surveillance of the pre- encrypted Internet had provided in the past, could the CIA now con- tend with such unconventional threats?...