Epstein Secrets

le concern about misleading journalists when it suited his purpose. For example, he told Alan Rusbridger of The Guardian, Brian Williams of NBC News, James Bamford of Wired, Katrina vanden Heuvel of The Nation, Barton Gellman, and Jane Mayer of The New Yorker that the U.S. government intentionally | | Epst_9780

iferation. The Snowden breach was not without precedent at the NSA. There had been two Russian spies at the NSA during the Cold War, Jack Dunlap and David Sheldon Boone, who took a limited number of documents, but no one since the end of the Cold War is known to have taken a single NSA classified document. Now an ins

s, had granted only a handful of face-to-face press interviews. Most of these were with the journalists who had published his story, but one was with James Bamford for his 2014 Wired piece. According to Bamford, it took nearly nine months to arrange the meeting. “I have been try- ing to set up an interview with

uited after he retired from the NSA. After he was betrayed by a KGB double agent in 1985, he was sentenced to life imprison- ment. Finally, there was David Sheldon Boone, an NSA code clerk, who between 1988 and 1992 provided the KGB with NSA docu- ments in return for $60,000. Boone, sentenced to twenty-four years in p

on this claim in three more interviews arranged by Wizner. These interviews were with three journalists who themselves had opposed NSA surveillance: James Bamford writing for Wired magazine, Alan Rusbridger, the editor of the Guardian and Katrina vanden Heuvel, the editor of The Nation. He also gave a televised

recruited after he retired from the NSA. After he was betrayed by a KGB double agent in 1985, was sentenced to life imprisonment, Finally, there was David Sheldon Boone, a NSA code clerk, who between 1988 and 1992, provided the KGB with NSA documents in return for $60,000. Boone, sentenced to 24 years in prison, was

tp://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-03-04/petraeus-justice- and-washington-s-culture-of-leaks > In an interview in Moscow...”—Snowden met with James Bamford, the author of the 1982 book The Puzzle Palace. In Moscow in June 2014. James Bamford. “Edward Snowden: The Untold Story,” Wired, August 2014. (Herei

found dead of...” Edward Jay Epstein, “The Spy Wars,” New York Times, September 28, 1980 . “Robert Lipka, a clerk...”—See Robert Lipka Appendix A “ David Sheldon Boone...”—See David Boone, Appendix A “Harold Nicholson, the CIA’s deputy...”— Elizabeth Farnsworth, “Update on the Case of CIA Agent Harold Nicholson,” P