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… outed himself on the Internet, the mission began tracking Snowden’s movements. Since Snowden, his lawyers and the journalists in his entourage frequently used their cell phones to text one another, it was fairly easy for the mission to follow Snowden’s trail after he left the Mi...

…for that matter, any other country to check-in and board an Aeroflot flight to Moscow. Aeroflot had to be instructed to allow Snowden on the plane without a visa. We also know that a special operation was mounted to take Snowden off the plane once it landed in Moscow. Such an ope...

…xation of Crimea is hailed as a milestone in the rebuilding of a great Russian state.® By exploiting the tensions that already exist between Estonia's ethnic communities, the Kremlin has sought to turn a complex problem into something combus- tible. The tendency of Russian speak...

BREAKING DOWN DEMOCRACY: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians 1. Andrew E. Kramer, “New Russian History: Yes, People Died, but ...," New York Times, August 15, 2007, http://www.nytimes. com/2007/08/15/world/europe/15iht-letter.1.7122937.html. 2. “The Rewritin...

…n a press conference at the airport that Snowden would be taking up residency at an undisclosed location in Moscow and walked out of the airport with Snowden. Sarah Harrison, Snowden’s companion on the plane to Moscow, told Vogue that she and Snowden for thirty-nine days had sha...

142 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS Russia by design or by accident. Whenever an intelligence worker steals sensitive compartmented information of interest to a foreign adversary and then defects to that adversary, it raises at least the specter of state-sponsored espionage. It i...

… either I’m a very good actor – the opposite of what anyone who has worked closely with me would tell you – or the journalists clustered in front of me weren’t very good face-readers. They said that I looked defeated. Distressed. Depressed. Yet as I delivered my brief final state...

…. By June 23, he was in a safe haven in Moscow. Even though the grand jury case against Snowden was cut and dry, it was also irrelevant because the United States does not have an extradition treaty with Russia. The purpose of the intelligence investigation went far beyond determ...

… security firm in Moscow. I was particularly interested in his recruitment of three top American intelligence officers: Aldrich Ames of the CIA, Robert Hanssen of the FBI, and Ronald Pelton of the NSA. I hoped that see- ing these intelligence coups through the eyes, and mind-set,...

Fugitive | 109 resulted in an international incident but did not change the fact that Snowden was still in the custody of Russian authorities. Snowden came to realize that those assisting him, including Assange and Harrison, were taking serious risks. “Anyone ina three- mile ra...

…nsive interviewed on the state owned RT channel. The interviewer Sophie Shevardnadze, who had a show on RT Television, called “Sophie & Co,” was well-admired journalist in her own right. She is also the grand-daughter of Edward Shevardnadze, a former foreign minister and Politbur...

… to relay Kushner’s response to his foreign ministry in Moscow. It is inconceivable that Kislyak did not know that the call would be monitored by the FBI, since the FBI had routinely listened in on these lines for the past 68 years, or that his discussion of Kushner’s request wou...

125 CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Question of When? “The NSA was actually concerned back in the time of the crypto-wars with improving American security. Nowadays, we see that their priority is weakening our security” —Snowden in Moscow In his 1974 novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Joh...

Off to Moscow | 255 to Terminal E. It is a nine-minute walk through the transit passage- way. Snowden, though, had one good reason for not going to Ecua- dor, even if Russia had permitted it. He believed that he would be vulnerable to rendition by the U.S. government in Ecuador....

149 intelligence official who later became involved in the case, the assignment involved preparing these agents to service a potential source in the NSA at Fort Meade, Maryland. If true, it suggested that Russian intelligence either had found or was working on a means of penetra...