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118 CHAPTER FIFTEEN Did Snowden Act Alone? “When you look at the totality of Snowden's actions certainly one hypothesis that jumps out at you, that seems to explain his ability to do all these things, is that he had help and had help from somebody who was very competent in the...

CHAPTER 26 The Handler As for [Snowden’s] communication with the outside world, yes, I am his main contact. —ANATOLY KUCHERENA, Moscow, 2013 N NOVEMBER 1, I still had not been able to make contact with Anatoly Kucherena, and my flight back to New York was in five days. My fix...

146 Snowden’s supporters, to be sure, disputed this view. If only as an act of faith in Snowden’s personal integrity, they continued to believe his avowal to Senator Humphrey that he had acted to protect U.S. secrets by shielding them from adversary intelligence services after h...

…reenwald 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 Photo/Ivan Sekretarev Julian Assange: Anthony Devlin/PA...

124 In view of such past successes of the Russian intelligence services, it cannot be precluded that there was another person in the NSA working with Snowden who used an enthusiastic as cover to prevent any light from falling on his own surreptitious spying. While it may seem ex...

165 companies acted less like management consultants and more like temporary employment agencies in finding for the NSA the computer specialists, who had the necessary security clearances. Unlike intelligence services, their fate depended on turning profits. Since the value of t...

116 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS Some secret methods that Snowden made public compromised the NSA’s state-of-the-art technology of which adversaries had been unaware. For example, the NSA had devised an ingenious tech- nology in 2008 for tapping into computers abroad that had...

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...

186 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS Russian troop movements in the Crimea and eastern Ukraine. U.S. intelligence officials even went so far as to suggest, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal, that “Russian planners might have gotten a jump on the West by evading U.S....

83 practically include comprehensive coverage of the United States.” As a result, he wrote. “The amount of US communications ingested by the NSA is still increasing.” He further offered to substantiate her worst fears about the growth of NSA surveillance’ “TI know the location...

203 CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN The Handler As for his [Snowden’s] communication with the outside world, yes, I am his main contact --Anatoly Kucherena, September 23, 2013 Time was rapidly running out for me in Moscow. On November 1*, I still had not been able to make contact with An...

…TER 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 59 Raider of the Inner Sanctum 73 Escape Artist 80 CHAPTER 10 Whistle-blower 88 CHAPTER 11 Enter Assange 98 CHA...

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...

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,...