Epstein Secrets

e all their territorial differences. Although the decisive round of border talks started before the formal disintegration of the Soviet Union, the Kremlin's unfamiliar weakness vis-a-vis Beijing helped to shape their outcome. Some western spats were removed from the table by the independence of the Ce

egion then called Outer Manchuria. The southern part of this concession would become Russia's maritime province, Primorsky Krai, where the city of Vladivostok ("Ruler of the East") was chartered in 1880. The century that followed Moscow's "Amur annexation" introduced dramatic changes to Northeast Asia's p

terness did not—as Henry Kissinger would learn during his first meeting with Deng Xiaoping in 1974, when the topic of a U.S.-Soviet arms summit in Vladivostok prompted the future Chinese leader to lecture him on Russian rapacity. Considering this background, as well as China's unresolved boundary dispute

T_019753 266 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS Alexander Litvinenko, I had interviewed Andrei Lugovoy. A former KGB officer assigned to protecting the Kremlin’s top members in the 1990s, Lugovoy later opened his own security company. In 2005, he became a business associate of Litvinenko’s in gathering infor

ia to tap through Arctic ice. The target was a Russian cable four hundred feet below the surface that connected the Rus- @ sian naval headquarters in Vladivostok with a missile testing range. @ In 1980, President Ronald Reagan gave the NSA a clear mandate to expand its interception of foreign communications.

n with the FSB and other Russian agencies. At the outset, Kucherena made it clear to Snowden that he would have to play by Moscow’s tules before the Kremlin would grant him permission to stay in Russia. To begin with, Snowden had to withdraw any and application he had made elsewhere for asylum. He had to

Okhotsk in Asia to tap through Arctic ice. The target was a Russian cable 400 feet below the surface that connected the Russian naval headquarters in Vladivostok with a missile testing range. In 1980, President Ronald Reagan, gave the NSA a clear mandate to expand its interception of foreign communications. I

ander Litvinenko in London, I had interviewed a number of people in Moscow, including Andrei Lugovoy. A former KGB officer assigned to protecting the Kremlin’s top members in the 1990s, Lugovoy later opened his own security company. In 2005, he became a business associate of Litvinenko’s in gathering infor

es surreptitiously tapped into Soviet undersea cables in the Sea of Okhotsk, which connected a to the Soviet Pacific Fleet's mainland headquarters at Vladivostok. Pelton received another $30,000 from the KGB. “Did the information in his head proved valuable?” I asked. “As long as the NSA didn’t know the tap