Epstein Secrets

felt it, known it, recognized it. Now realize it. I woke this morning with a new name. That name is Wolfking. Wolfking Awesomefox. —EDWARD SNOWDEN, Geneva, June 12, 2008 | | I | | | Epst_9780451494566_2p _all_ri.zindd 13 @ 9/29/16 5:51PM | | HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019501 | | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_r1.z.in

lls for IT jobs from outside contractors. So it had no need for employing a twenty-two-year-old dropout who did not meet its requisites. According to Tyler Drumheller, a former CIA station chief in Europe, the only plausible way that Snowden, with no qualifica- tions, was allowed to jump the queue was that “he had

a security investigation of Snowden, but it was aborted when he resigned. He had also incurred large losses specu- lating in the financial markets in Geneva, which is the kind of activ- ity that had in the past attracted the interest of foreign intelligence services. So it has to be considered in this sce

e America and go public, he could serve as a near-perfect umbrella. “Snowden may have carried out of the NSA many more documents than he knew about,” Tyler Drumheller, the former CIA station chief, said. It @ could also account for the disparity between the claims of Snowden @ and the NSA damage assessment as to t

ll the telegrams coming into the United States. “Its far-seeking eyes penetrate the secret conference chambers at Wash- ington, Tokyo, London, Paris, Geneva, Rome,” Yardley wrote about the Black Chamber. “Its sensitive ears catch the faintest whispering in the foreign capitals of the world.” But in 1929,

g as in mainland China. Even though the CIA kept officers there in 2013, it was considered “hos- tile territory,” according to the former CIA officer Tyler Drumheller. Snowden apparently knew the limits of CIA operations in Hong Kong, which provided him with an envelope of protection. He told Greenwald that he was

elt it, known it, and recognized it. Now realize it. I woke this morning with a new name. That name is ... Wolfking Awesomefox” --Edward Snowden in Geneva, June 12, 2008. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020195 44 CHAPTER THREE Tinker “Tt’s like the boiling frog. You get exposed to a little bit of evil, a little bi

ogatory comment. He was also threatened with a punitive investigation unless he agreed to quietly resign from the CIA. “It was not a stellar career,” Tyler Drumheller, former CIA station chief told me in 2014. The job in Geneva did have its benefits, however. It provided him a generous housing and travel allowance

rveillance revelations,” Guardian, June 9, 2013 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020389 238 CHAPTER FIVE Contractor L 10. 11. 12. 13. “Much of what I saw in Geneva...”-- Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras and Ewen MacAskill, “Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations,” Guardian, June

.A. Warning on Snowden in ’09 Said to Slip Through the Cracks, New York Times, October 10, 2013 5. “It was not a stellar...”—Author’s interviews with Tyler Drumheller 6. “Snowden’s superior had suspected...”-- Eric Schmitt, “C.L.A. Warning on Snowden in ’09 Said to Slip Through the Cracks, New York Times, October