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…ectly 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 aware of the spin that would be put on it if he took asylum in Russia.” So a story would be released presumably...

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...

160 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS surveillance, as the CIA deputy director later revealed. Such moves could indicate that at least part of the U.S. communications intel- ligence that Snowden had stolen was in enemy hands. The CIA and NSA’s monitoring of these countermeasures wa...

…nts separated, Snowden’s mother, Wendy, bought a two-bedroom condominium in Elliott City, Maryland. She moved Snowden, along with his two cats, into the condominium. She remained in the family house while awaiting its sale. According to his neighbor Joyce Kinsey, Snowden, alone,...

… to block Snowden’s exit. Nor did Snowden obtain a visa to any country in Latin America or elsewhere during his month- long stay in Hong Kong. As in the oft-cited Sherlock Holmes’ clue of the dog that did not bark, Snowden’s lack of any visas in his passport strongly suggests th...

164 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS have been reeled in unwittingly. Morell suggested in his book that Snowden might not himself have fully realized “when and how he would be used.” It can be safely assumed that the decision made by Putin’s intel- ligence service to allow Snowde...

…pecifically, Morell said, the CIA needed to find out three things: Had CIA docu- ments been part of Snowden’s haul? How long had Snowden been stealing documents? Had Snowden been working “with any foreign intelligence service, either wittingly or not”? According to Morell, the e...

The Crime Scene Investigation | 143 charges prevented the Hong Kong police from immediately order- ing his detention. His Hong Kong lawyers were certainly advised of these pending charges no later than June 21, when they were pub- lished on the front page of the South China Morn...

328 | Notes to pages 293-299 http://intelligence.house.gov/1-four-declassified-examples-more-50-attacks -20-countries-thwarted-nsa-collection-under-fisa-section. 290 Grand Central station: Mark Hosenball, “U.S. NSA Internet Spying Foiled Plot to Attack New York Subways: Sources...

102 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS intelligence service. When she traveled, she bought “burner” phones locally and disposed of them before any calls could be traced back to her. Upon arriving in Hong Kong, she avoided meeting Snowden face-to-face out of concern about the surveil...

Whistle-blower | 91 “The initial impression was one of extreme confusion,” Greenwald wrote in his book. “I was expecting to meet somebody in his six- ties or seventies, someone very senior in the agency, because I knew almost nothing about him prior to our arrival in Hong Kong.”...

The Crime Scene Investigation | 139 puter intended to be used for temporary storage by authorized ser- vice personnel. Finally, the data was transferred off this auxiliary computer presumably to thumb drives or other external storage devices. This download occurred just days bef...

…ot be fully trusted. The most basic responsibility of the NSA is to pro- tect its sources. Yet Snowden walked away with long lists of them. In doing so, he amply demonstrated that a single civilian employee working for an outside contractor, even one not having the neces- sary pa...

Notes to pages 121-129 | 317 119 his son Senator Rand Paul: See Katie Glueck, “Rand Paul Backs Snowden, Bashes Clapper,” Politico, Jan. 5, 2014. 119 “We actually buy cell phones”: Snowden quoted in “New The Guardian Inter- view with Edward Snowden,” Guardian, July 17, 2014, htt...

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...