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CHAPTER 25 Through the Looking Glass There’s definitely a deep state. Trust me, I’ve been there. —EDWARD SNOWDEN, Moscow, 2014 Wa WAITING to hear back from Kucherena’s office, I arranged to meet with Victor Cherkashin, who had been one of the most successful KGB spy handlers i...

…lia, Assange began his hacking career while still a teenager. Using the alias Mendax (“the untruthful one”), he had hacked into the computers of the Pentagon, the U.S. Navy, NASA, Citibank, Lockheed Martin, and Australia’s Overseas Telecommuni- cations Commission before he was tw...

306 | Acknowledgments Because I do not believe an investigative book should be written without the author visiting the crime scene and other pertinent ven- ues, I undertook research in Hawaii, Japan, Hong Kong, and Moscow. Where possible, I flew the same flights that Snowden did...

…lists that he was not a lawbreaker. But her new source, C4, was willing to do what Binney (and other insiders) had refused to do. He was offer- ing in these e-mails to provide her with secret government docu- ments, even though it would implicate him as an outlaw. To further whet...

177 that could be hacked into from the outside. It will be recalled that the NSA threat officer had cited these failures in his 1996 report on NSA vulnerability. He also said that efforts of the Russian Intelligence Services to use false flag recruitments provided the KGB with “...

like his father: The best reporting on Snowden’s childhood was

Snowden had not allowed the reporters to identify him

“Former NSA Lawyer on ‘Harm’ of Edward Snowden’s

Snowden would not be difficult to spot as a potential collaborator and

Snowden asked him if he could avoid even being

Snowden would have a platform to make his case against US surveillance. Indeed

that there were others in the “geek squad” that shared Snowden’s

we know that Snowden found other NSA workers

Snowden may have agreed to divert suspicion from

and since Snowden was willing to flee America and go public