98 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS reporter in Berlin in 2014. “The risks became very great,” she said in describing her situation in Hong Kong. So, on June 15, she left Hong Kong and flew back to Berlin, where she began editing her footage of the Snowden interview. Meanwhile, S...
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114 sent to the cloud. Once secret documents are taken, they are compromised. How Snowden succeeded in this coup cannot simply be pieced together from his statements and interviews. The story also requires a visit to the wilderness of mirrors called counterintelligence. 38 ko...
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...
…secrets. Born on July 3, 1971, in Queensland, Australia, 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 Overs...
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...
String Puller | 67 to back up the charges he made that Stellarwind was an unlawful domestic surveillance operation. He could not have done so without violating his sworn oath and, for that matter, U.S. anti-espionage statutes. Binney made it clear to her and other journalists th...
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