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sked. He rolled his eyes and said, “Snowden has a pretty wild imagina- tion. For one thing, the U.S. consulate is not down the road from the Mira in Kowloon; it is here on Hong Kong Island. And there was no CIA rendition team in Hong Kong.” My next question concerned a second period during which | | Eps
imed at finding new recruits for Tor. The CryptoParty movement had been started in 2012 by Asher Wolf, a radical hacktivist and anarchist liv- ing in Melbourne, Australia. She promoted the get-togethers not @ unlike the Tupperware parties of the 1950s. The party organizer, @ usually with a representative of
ed, along with the Guardian reporter MacAskill, to the five-star Sheraton Hong Kong Hotel & Towers, which, like the Mira hotel, was on Nathan Road in Kowloon. The Guardian paid the bill. Her next task was to set up what turned out to be Snowden’s final interview in Hong Kong. It was scheduled for June 12.
p him engineer his escape to Russia. That senior staff member was Sarah Harrison. @ After speaking to Snowden, Assange called Harrison, who was in @ Melbourne. She had gone there a month earlier to help organize Assange’s somewhat quixotic election campaign for president of Australia. Assange told her to fo
same day that Snowden had arrived there the previous year. I checked into the five-star Mira Hotel. It was in the Tsim Sha Tsui shopping district of Kowloon, a 10-minute ferry ride away from Hong Kong island, where most of the foreign consulates are located. I chose the Mira because it was the hotel in w
ecruits for TOR. The “crypto party” movement itself had been started in 2011 in Australia by Asher Wolf, a radical hacktavist and anarchist living in Melbourne. She promoted them not unlike the tupper-ware parties of the 1950s. They worked as follows. The party organizer, usually with a representative of the
where she moved, along with Guardian reporter MacAskill, to the five-star Sheraton Hong Kong Tower, which, like the Mira hotel, was on Nathan Road in Kowloon. Her next task was to set up what was to be Snowden’s final interview in Hong Kong. It was scheduled for June 12th. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020254 103 The
help him engineer his escape to Russia. That senior staff member was Sarah Harrison, After speaking to Snowden, Assange called Harrison, who was in Melbourne, Australia. She had gone there a month earlier to help organize Assange’s somewhat quixotic election campaign for President of Australia, | Assange n
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