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238 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS sian KGB and SVR reported that Chinese intelligence received from Russia a continuous stream of communications intelligence about the United States in the late twentieth and early twenty-first cen- turies. Russia’s intelligence resources during...

…rly applied, so that patently false assertions are treated as symmetrical with legitimate views or facts. Many outside Russia would not disagree with Kise- lyov's dismissive views on the concept of impartial reporting. In meeting the challenge of authoritarian propaganda, a good...

…the Nation, “I’m in exile. My government revoked my passport intentionally to leave me exiled” and “chose to keep me in Russia.” According to Mr. Snowden, the U.S. government accomplished this entrapment by suspending his passport while he was in midair after he departed Hong Kon...

… wanted to hear. Assange did not suggest that Snowden go to Ecuador to seek asylum. He counseled him to go directly to Russia. “My advice was that he should take asylum in Russia despite the negative PR consequences,” he told the (London) Times in 2015. He found “Snowden was wel...

…ports when tourists exit but does not check them against a computerized database. In any case, when Snowden arrived in Russia on June 23, any future international travel decisions for him would be up to the gov- ernment of Russia, not that of the United States. It could have sen...

The Handler | 269 if not unprecedented for an American intelligence worker to seek asylum in Russia. These invitees included some of Putin’s close associates, pro- government activists, and representatives of both Amnesty Inter- national and Human Rights Watch. “It was totally...

…ut Crossfire was not a criminal investigation. It was a counterintelligence investigation predicated on the notion that Russia could be colluding with the Trump campaign. There appears to have been no discernible evidence of Trump-Russia collusion at the time Crossfire was launch...

…ge of heart, or he was telling Assange what he believed he wanted to hear. Assange counseled Snowden to go directly to Russia. “My advice was that he should take asylum in Russia despite the negative PR consequences,” he told the London Times in 2015. He said, “Snowden was well...

…could be done without precluding any rapprochement between Moscow and Beijing. The administration claims the reset with Russia is one of its most significant foreign-policy successes. But there is less here than meets the eye—on both sides. Russian concessions so far have been ha...

194 CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Vanishing Act “They talk about Russia like it’s the worst place on earth. Russia’s great.”—Snowden Moscow, 2015 My night flight from New York to Moscow took less than eight hours. It landed at 7:40 AM on October 29, 2015 at terminal D a Sheremetyevo Inte...

222 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS the activities of Russia and China. It was charged with monitoring nuclear proliferation in Iran, Pakistan, and North Korea, poten- tial jihadist threats everywhere in the world, and much else. The Russian foreign intelligence service, the SVR,...

…ounces the color revolutions in neighboring countries like Georgia and Ukraine as Western-backed schemes to replace pro-Russian leaders with pro-American usurpers. In this view, the centuries may change and the Soviet empire may fade into history, but Russia's geopolitical predic...

The Russians Are Coming | 227 history dating back to the era of the czars, Russian intelligence had perfected the technique of false flag recruitment, through which it assumes an identity to fit the ideological bent of a potential recruit. Russian intelligence was well experien...

…s leadership has been intensified in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine and seizure of Crimea in 2014. To convince the Russian people that waging a form of low-intensity warfare against a neighbor was justified, Putin has stepped up efforts to depict the West as antagonistic to...

Freedom House Authoritarians on Color Revolutions “In my opinion, everything that happened in Ukraine shook Russia... Young people began to discuss and think about Russias direc- tion.” —lvan Mostovich, press secretary of the pro-Kremlin youth organization Nashi, April 2005 “...