Epstein Secrets

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

you held a gun to my head.” We met two more times, but true to his word Tibbo would not say if he even knew the identity of the “carer.” Meanwhile, Joyce Xu, a very resourceful Chinese journalist who was assisting me in Hong Kong, had filed the equivalent of a Freedom | | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_rt.zin

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,

ght, they filmed a num- ber of my interviews on these trips, and generously provided pho- tographs for this book. I thank Alexander Bitter in Hawaii, Joyce Xu in Hong Kong, Ko Shoiya in Japan, and Zamir Gotta, Natalie Filkina, and Svetlana Chervonnaya in Russia for their help in arranging my interviews in t

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

you held a gun to my head.” We met two more times but, true to his word, Tibbo would not say if he even knew the identity of the “carer.” Meanwhile, Joyce Xu, a very resourceful Chinese journalist who was assisting me in Hong Kong, had filed the equivalent of a Freedom of Information request with the Hong