Epstein Secrets

nterview with Kucherena was a coup because, until then, he had not discussed Snowden in a television interview. About halfway through the interview, Shevardnadze brought up the highly sensitive subject of the disposition of the NSA docu- ments. If anyone was in a position to know about these documents, it was

d he was a whistle-blower, and he adamantly denied offering any secrets to the Soviet Union, the KGB viewed him as a conventional spy. Accord- ing to Oleg Kalugin, the top Soviet counterintelligence officer in the KGB in Moscow, who defected to the United States, Agee offered CIA secrets first to the KGB reside

efense was what Snowden did with the second set afer his meetings with the journalists in Hong Kong. Did he take these documents with him to Russia? Shevardnadze, who makes it a point to drill her interviewees, pressed Kucherena as to whether Snowden still had these NSA files, or “material” in Russia. The dial

ted he was a whistle-blower, and he adamantly denied offering any secrets to the Soviet Union, the KGB viewed him as a conventional spy. According to Oleg Kalugin, the top Soviet counterintelligence officer in the KGB in Moscow, who defected to the U.S., Agee offered CIA secrets first to the KGB residency in Me

sitive for journalists. So I sought 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 had might reveal in Russia, Kucherena pointedly called her attention to Snowden’s CIA service, suggesting

ook On F.B.I. Abandon Shadows,” New York Times, January 7, 2014 “Agee left the CIA...”—See Phillip Agee in Appendix A “Kalugin a top Soviet...”—See Oleg Kalugin in Appendix A “A treasure trove of...”—Christopher Andrews, The Sword and the Shield (Basic Books, New York) 2000 p.206 “Tt is inconceivable to me.