Epstein Secrets

entalists. But the organisers were also struck by the heartbreaking singularity of so many of the cases. A marine biologist in a former republic of the Soviet Union angered government officials by studying local shellfish populations. An African academic was threatened after discovering that funds had been stol

ening, and two of them told their respective tales of persecution in Iran and Pakistan, which seemed much more than a world away from the safety of the Upper East Side. "I've had such an easy life," Kenner said after hearing the scholars speak, with a tone of gratitude that was representative of her guests. "I've

entalists. But the organisers were also struck by the heartbreaking singularity of so many of the cases. A marine biologist in a former republic of the Soviet Union angered government officials by studying local shellfish populations. An African academic was threatened after discovering that funds had been stol

ening, and two of them told their respective tales of persecution in Iran and Pakistan, which seemed much more than a world away from the safety of the Upper East Side. "I've had such an easy life," Kenner said after hearing the scholars speak, with a tone of gratitude that was representative of her guests. "I've

198 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS of the communications of its adversaries. Even though the Cold War had been declared over after the collapse of the Soviet Union a quar- ter of a century earlier, the age-old enterprise of espionage did not end with it. Russia and China still sought to blunt the edge that the N

rth. Russia’s great. —EDWARD SNOWDEN, Moscow, 2015 EFORE FLYING TO Moscow, I arranged to have dinner with Oliver Stone at an Italian restaurant on the Upper East Side of New York. I had greatly respected Stone’s ability as a film director after watching him work on Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, a film in which I