Epstein Secrets

“Edward Snowden.” 15 Lon Snowden, like his father: The best reporting on Snowden’s childhood was done by Suzanne Andrews. See Burrough, Ellison, and Andrews, “Snowden Saga.” 16 Brad Gunson, who knew Snowden: Carol D. Leonnig, Jenna Johnson, and Mare Fisher, “Who Is Edward Snowden?,” Washington Post, June

, Laura Poitras, and Ewen MacAskill. “Edward Snowden: The Whistle- blower Behind the NSA Surveillance Revelations.” Guardian, June 9, 2013. Gridasov, Andrei, Igor Yavlyansky, and Mary Gorkovskaya. “Secret Services in Moscow with WikiLeaks Conducted Operation Snowden.” Izvestia, June 23, 2013. Harris, Shan

”: Shils, Torment of Secrecy. 47 “|The elites] know everything”: Roy, “Edward Snowden Meets Arundhati Roy and John Cusack.” 47 “What do you think”: Gellman, “Edward Snowden, After Months of NSA Rev- elations, Says His Mission’s Accomplished.” 48 violate U.S. espionage laws: Michael Hayden, interview wit

y, if ever, saw Snowden at the practice sessions. Andrew Towl, a juggler with the group, did briefly meet

e the American establishment. So he had Poitras write to Barton Gellman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The Washington Post. Poitras had met Gellman in 2010, when they were both fellows at NYU’s Center on Law and Security. Poitras had requested help in encrypting her computer from Karen Greenberg,

“Agee left the CIA...”—See Phillip Agee in Appendix A “Kalugin a top Soviet...”—See Oleg Kalugin in Appendix A “A treasure trove of...”—Christopher Andrews, The Sword and the Shield (Basic Books, New York) 2000 p.206 “Tt is inconceivable to me...”— Author’s interview with a former Booz Allen executive w

ed rendezvous with a journalist. As previously mentioned, when he left Hong Kong not a single journalist had agreed to meet him in Hong Kong. Indeed, Gellman considered Hong Kong, as he put it, “in the jurisdiction of a country that’s unfriendly to the United States,” and notified Snowden that he would not