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Kong in 2013. He had written a well-researched report about Snowden’s arrival there. He proposed we meet at the Foreign Cor- @ respondents’ Club. @ Bradsher told me that he had known Albert Ho, who had been retained as Snowden’s lawyer, for more than a decade. He had inter- viewed him many times, because

h Snowden’s whereabouts during these “miss- ing” eleven days, which, among other things, could shed light on why he first came to Hong Kong, I called Keith Bradsher, a prizewin- ning journalist who had been the New York Times bureau chief in Hong Kong in 2013. He had written a well-researched report about Snowden

uly 17, 2014, https://www.theguardian .com/world/2014/jul/18/-sp-edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-interview -transcript. 121 Dominique Strauss-Kahn: Edward Jay Epstein, “What Really Happened to Strauss-Kahn,” New York Review of Books, Dec. 22, 2011. Vance made his state- ment on the Charlie Rose show, Feb. 19, 2016.

er 2, “Ten Days in Hong Kong,” in Greenwald, No Place to Hide, 7-32. 7 Snowden also contacted: Gellman, “Code Name ‘Verax.’” 7 He proposed we meet: Bradsher, interview with author. Bradsher wrote a number of excellent articles about Snowden and Ho. See Bradsher, “Hasty Exit Started with Pizza Inside a Hon

He had visited Hong Kong: Lindsay Mills’s blog. According to Albert Ho: Bradsher, “Hasty Exit Started with Pizza Inside a Hong Kong Hideout.” Also, Keith Bradsher, interview with author. for the next ten days: Former DIA officer who requested anonymity, interview with author. “his first priority”: Greenwald,

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y his whereabouts during these missing 11 days was a gap that needed to be filled in. It could shed light on why he came to Hong Kong. I next called Keith Bradsher, a prize-winning journalist who had been the New York Times bureau chief in Hong Kong in 2013, who had written a well-researched report about Snowden

g, a venue, I recalled, reminiscent of where John LeCarre had set the opening chapter of his spy novel The Honourable Schoolboy. When we spoke later, Bradsher told me that he knew Albert Ho, who had been retained as Snowden’s lawyer, for more than a decade, and interviewed him many times as he was a leader

lite unit of the U.S military but failed to get an honorable discharge, became hostile to policies of the U.S. government and defected to Russia. See Edward Jay Epstein, Legend: The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald, McGraw-Hill Book Company, (New York, 1978) pp.64-104 34. “He gave her his word.” Snowden emails to L

ge with Post reporter, made clear he knew risks, Washington Post, June 9, 2013 10. “He proposed we meet...”—Author’s interview with Keith Bradsher. Bradsher wrote a number of excellent articles about Snowden and Ho. See Keith Bradsher, “Hasty Exit Started With Pizza Inside a Hong Kong Hideout.” New York T

owden, in exchange with Post reporter, made clear he knew risks, Washington Post, June 9, 2013 10. “He proposed we meet...”—Author’s interview with Keith Bradsher. Bradsher wrote a number of excellent articles about Snowden and Ho. See Keith Bradsher, “Hasty Exit Started With Pizza Inside a Hong Kong Hideout.”