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… Bibiography [TK] Chronology 1: Snowden Thriller: From Honolulu to Moscow in 82 Days. April 8, 2013, Honolulu. Edward Snowden begins working as an infrastructure-analyst in training at the National Threat Operations Center f...

…der tactics that undermine the illusions of pluralism and openness as well as integration with the global economy. Thus Moscow has pursued its military intervention in Ukraine despite economic sanctions and overseen the assassination of opposition figures; www.freedomhouse.org 3...

…ss than two weeks after Mr. Snowden released the video that helped present his narrative, he left Hong Kong and flew to Moscow, where he received protection by the Russian government. In much of the media coverage that followed, the ultimate destination of these stolen secrets wa...

…ut the NSA targeting the cellphone of German Chancellor Angela Merkel—continued to surface after Mr. Snowden arrived in Moscow, along with NSA documents released via WikiLeaks. As this was a critical discrepancy in Mr. Snowden’s narrative, I went to Moscow in October 2015 to see...

215 The final choice he was made to board a non-stop flight to Moscow on June 23, 2013. To remain in Hong Kong once a criminal complaint was leveled against him would have meant that, at the very minimum, Hong Kong authorities would seize him and the alleged stolen property of t...

…is true. The State Department invalidated Mr. Snowden’s passport while he was still in Hong Kong, not after he left for Moscow on June 23. The “Consul General- Hong Kong confirmed that Hong Kong authorities were notified that Mr. Snowden’s passport was revoked June 22,” according...

…adius [of me] is going to get hammered,” he later explained to a reported from Vogue. (After finally leaving Snowden in Moscow on November 3, 2013, Harrison moved to Berlin, where she set up an organization to provide, as she termed it, “an underground railroad” for other fugitiv...

…York correctly said, based on a White House briefing, that “Vladimir Putin had personally approved Snowden’s flight” to Moscow. The NSA had the means to monitor Russian communication between Moscow and Hong Kong. The NSA also reportedly intercepted contacts between these Russian...

… 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 Internat...

…merican diplomacy and defense thinking, particularly in the establishment of some sort of deterrent to a Soviet attack. Moscow had to know, and trust, that any attempt to strike-first would be met with a devastating reply. “The chief purpose of our military establishment has been...

…side 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, and my flight back to New York was in five days. My fixer, Zamir, had...

… I grew up playing tennis competing on a Junior Circuit and simply couldn’t envision a predictable and “normal” life in Moscow. I come from a very patriarchate society where women are encouraged to study and to meet future husband in the their early 20s, then to get married and t...

326 | Notes to pages 252-280 CHAPTER 24 Off to Moscow 247 “They talk about Russia”: Bamford and De Chant, “Edward Snowden on Cyber Warfare.” 247 Before flying to Moscow: Stone, interview with author. 248 $1 million: Mike Fleming Jr, “Oliver Stone Buys Edward Snowden Russian...

…ry of final destination. Snowden had neither a valid passport nor a visa. Still Snowden was able to board the flight to Moscow. Aeroflot, a state-controlled airline, presumably responds to the Rus- sian government on matters where Putin has given his approval. Snowden first met...

216 before departing to Moscow, and Assange accommodated him by laying down a smoke screen of decoy flights to facilitate his escape from Hong Kong and sending him a helper. Taken together, these actions show that Snowden was determined to succeed where others before him had fa...