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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...

CHAPTER 11 Enter Assange Thanks to Russia (and thanks to WikiLeaks), Snowden remains free. —JULIAN ASSANGE, Newsweek, 2015 ULIAN ASSANGE had made a brilliant career of trafficking in state, military, and corporate secrets. Born on July 3, 1971, in Queensland, Australia, Assan...

…nt ven- ues, I undertook research in Hawaii, Japan, Hong Kong, and Moscow. Where possible, I flew the same flights that Snowden did. I am grate- ful to Ena and Ines Talakic for their assistance on these research trips. As talented documentarians in their own right, they filmed a...

…the pie have spread all over the world to practically include comprehensive coverage of the United States.” In fact, as Snowden knew from the Inspector General report he had read, the NSA had terminated Stellarwind almost a decade earlier. President Bush ended it after top offici...

…Wikileaks, Noisebridge, Crypto Parties, and the Freedom of the Press Foundation and the Electronic Freedom Foundation. (Snowden, for example, had been in touch with members all these groups in 2012 and 2013.) The SVR would have little problem monitoring even encrypted communicat...

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