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…s provided him with a convenient path to full cooperation with Russia. He was put in contact with Anatoly Grigorievich Kucherena, a silver-haired 53-year old lawyer, who was known as a personal friend of Putin. Kucherena also did task for Putin’s party in the Russian parliament...

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...

…the Moscow flight—even though he had neither a valid passport nor a Russian visa, as his newly assigned lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena,said at a press conference in Russia on July 12, 2013. By falsely claiming his passport was invalidated after the plane departed Hong Kong— instead of...

[92 about Snowden for Sony. Stone said that the million dollar deal with Kucherena effectively guaranteed that any competing project would not have access to Snowden. Sony consequently put the competing film on hold. To be sure, it is not unusual for a lawyer to negotiate a dea...

…en’s dossier included his interviews with the FSB, SVR and other Russian security services. If so, it would explain how Kucherena could be so certain that Snowden had brought “material” with him to Russia that he had not provided to journalists in Hong Kong. Before meeting with K...

…, and hope it will be accepted favorably.” After answering a few questions posed by the audience, he left the room with Kucherena and Har- rison by the same door they had entered. In discussing this meeting, Kucherena told me that Snowden had not intended to seek asylum in Russi...

204 “T don’t know him, but I know someone who does,” he answered. “Why are you interested in seeing Kucherena?” I told him that I wanted to speak to him about Snowden but that I had been unable to arrange a meeting. “That’s no problem,” he said, raising his cell phone (which n...

Russian authorities. On Sept. 23, 2013, Mr. Kucherena gave a long interview to Sophie Shevardnadze, a journalist for Russia Today television. When Ms. Shevardnadze directly asked him if Mr. Snowden had given all the documents he had taken from the NSA to journalists in Hong Kong...

… roster. Could he have known about his connections? “I suppose it was because of my record in defending human rights,” Kucherena replied with a broad smile. Kucherena went to Sheremetyevo International Airport to meet his new client on the morning of Friday, July 12, 2013. At t...

…TY-SEVEN The Handler As for his [Snowden’s] communication with the outside world, yes, I am his main contact --Anatoly Kucherena, September 23, 2013 Time was rapidly running out for me in Moscow. On November 1*, I still had not been able to make contact with Anatoly Kucherena,...

CHAPTER 26 The Handler As for [Snowden’s] communication with the outside world, yes, I am his main contact. —ANATOLY KUCHERENA, Moscow, 2013 N NOVEMBER 1, I still had not been able to make contact with Anatoly Kucherena, and my flight back to New York was in five days. My fix...

…HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS SHEVARDNADZE: SO he [Snowden] does have some materials that haven’t been made public yet? KucHERENA: Certainly. Shevardnadze asked the next logical question: “Why did Russia get involved in this whole thing if it got nothing out of it?” “Snowden sp...

ahd CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN The Handler 1. “As for his [Snowden’s] communication...”-- Anatoly Kucherena Interview, “Snowden believes he did everything right,” Sophie & Co, RT Television, September 23,2013 2. “I learned from a Russian researcher...”-- Author’s interview with Vas...

… 16, 2013 An answer came three...”-- Sophie Shevardnadze, “'Snowden believes he did everything right' - lawyer Anatoly Kucherena,” RT Television, September 23, 2013 //www.tt.com/shows/sophieco/snowden-russia- lawyer-kucherena-2 14/ “T had all of...” —Author’s interview with Ana...

270 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS deemed others too sensitive for journalists. So I wanted to find out from Kucherena which documents Snowden had taken to Russia. I went about it in a roundabout way. When Shevardnadze asked him about the secret material Snowden might reveal in...