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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

tary/snowden-transcript. 46 bragged to James Risen: Risen, “Snowden Says He Took No Secret Files to Russia.” 47 this counterculture is “tormented”: Shils, Torment of Secrecy. 47 “|The elites] know everything”: Roy, “Edward Snowden Meets Arundhati Roy and John Cusack.” 47 “What do you think”: Gellman,

J. The Great War of Our Time. New York: Twelve, 2015. Sebag-Montefiore, Hugh. Enigma: The Battle for the Code. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2001. Shils, Edward. The Torment of Secrecy: The Background and Consequences of American Security Policies. Chicago: Free Press, 1956. Turner, Stansfield. Secre

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s brilliantly dissects the fascination with secrecy among individuals who fear that government agencies will use covert machinations against them. In Shils’s concept, this counterculture is “tormented” by the govern- ment’s possession of knowledge unavailable to them. Members of this culture tend to beli

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

with secrecy among individuals on all ends of the political spectrum who fear that government agencies will use covert machinations against them. In Shils’ concept, this anti- government counter-culture is “tormented” by the government’s possession of knowledge unavailable to them. Those who subscribe t