217 CHAPTER TWENTY NINE The Whistle Blower Who Became a Controlled Source “The [U.S.] government’s investigation failed—that they don’t know what was taken” —Edward Snowden in Moscow In Moscow I had learned that Russian intelligence services use the broad, umbrella term “esp...
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[2 Hong Kong. This group constituted the intelligence “mission,” as he referred to it. After Snowden 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 t...
218 Snowden to come to Russia. Putin’s s decision no doubt set in motion the operation to exfiltrate him on Aeroflot, the state-controlled airline. We know that the Russian government acted in advance to facilitate Snowden’s trip from Hong Kong. Without such an intervention, it...
Freedom House through Russian television stations. On a daily basis, they are exposed to propagandistic programs in which the EU is demonized, NATO is treated as an aggressor, the democracies on Russia's borders are presented as enemies, and the annexation of Crimea is hailed as...
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...
256 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS Because the Aeroflot flight to Cuba was the only means of get- ting directly from Moscow to Latin America, Russian reporters, encouraged by WikiLeaks posts, continued taking the daily eleven- hour flight to Cuba until August 1. The charade only...
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...
Night Flight They say that you can read a person’s feelings on his face. But if so, 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 th...
The Crime Scene Investigation | 145 Hawaii. Nor would that data be forthcoming from Snowden, who may be the only witness to the crime. 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 th...
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...
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...
137 An answer came three months later from his Moscow lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena. On September 23, 2013, Kucherena had an extensive interviewed on the state owned RT channel. The interviewer Sophie Shevardnadze, who had a show on RT Television, called “Sophie & Co,” was well-admi...
could supply such a “secure line.” Kislyak then used an open phone line at his embassy 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...
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....