The Chinese Puzzle | 239 tains there its largest intelligence base outside mainland China. A large contingent of its officers are stationed officially in the Prince of Wales skyscraper in central Hong Kong and unofficially main- tain informers in Hong Kong’s police, governing au...
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The Question of When | 159 He offered to defect to the United States. The CIA accepted his offer, and through this archive of secrets he had previously compiled, he became one of the CIA’s most productive sources in the Cold War. The job of an intelligence service is to take ad...
CHAPTER 19 The Rise of the NSA There are many things we do in intelligence that, if revealed, would have the potential for all kinds of blowback. —JAMES CLAPPER, director of national intelligence, 2013 [ THE GAME OF NATIONS, which often is not visible to public scrutiny, the g...
238 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS sian KGB and SVR reported that Chinese intelligence received from Russia a continuous stream of communications intelligence about the United States in the late twentieth and early twenty-first cen- turies. Russia’s intelligence resources during...
220 provided no basis to speculate that he was in mainland China. He could have been staying in a well-prepared safe-house anywhere in Hong Kong or even at the home of an unknown associate. All that is really known is that soon after he emerged from this venue and gave his celeb...
CHAPTER 4 Thief We begin by coveting what we see every day. —HANNIBAL LECTER, The Silence of the Lambs N HAWAII IN 2012, Snowden was living a very comfortable life. He was earning just over $120,000 a year from Dell. His hous- ing allowance covered the rent and the lease on...
Snowden and Mills had much in common. They both had
” Snowden boasted in May 2006 on the website Ars
as he later said. Snowden saw that a rogue system administrator like
Snowden made a ten day trip to India. He later said he was on an official
Snowden’s contract in Japan with Dell SecureWorks came
Snowden was in full control. Although his day job at Dell involved
to which Snowden never referred in his correspondence with them
Snowden dealt with a wide range of intelligence
Snowden’s Internet chatter about bad choices in gambling could