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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
to gradually advance Gerald the mole to a position of power. Such well-organized penetrations are not limited to fiction. The career of the KGB mole Heinz Felfe, who was advanced through the ranks of West German intelligence by an elaborate series of sac- rifices by his controllers in Moscow until he actually
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
hers to gradually advance Gerald the mole to a position of power. Such well-organized penetrations are not limited to fiction. The career of KGB mole Heinz Felfe, who was advanced through the ranks of German intelligence by an elaborate series of sacrifices by his controllers in Moscow until he actually headed
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
“The career of KGB...” -- Tennent H. Bagley, Spy Wars: Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games, (Yale University Press, New Haven) 2008, p. 46. See also, Heinz Felfe in Appendix A “A counterespionage review done...”—Author’s interview with a member of PFIAB who requested anonymity “Hanssen laid down his ...”—Aut
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