Epstein Secrets

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nterview with Kucherena was a coup because, until then, he had not discussed Snowden in a television interview. About halfway through the interview, Shevardnadze brought up the highly sensitive subject of the disposition of the NSA docu- ments. If anyone was in a position to know about these documents, it was

cy at an undisclosed location in Moscow and walked out of the airport with Snowden. Sarah Harrison, Snowden’s companion on the plane to Moscow, told Vogue that she and Snowden for thirty-nine days had shared a windowless room in the transit zone of the airport where they watched TV, washed their clothes

sitive for journalists. So I wanted to find out from Kucherena which documents Snowden had taken to Russia. I went about it in a roundabout way. When Shevardnadze asked him about the secret material Snowden might reveal in Russia, Kucher- ena pointedly called her attention to Snowden’s CIA service, suggest- ing

’s Options for Refuge Narrow.” Wall Street Journal, June 10, 2013. Corbett, Sara. “How a Snowdenista Kept the NSA Leaker Hidden in a Moscow Airport.” Vogue, Feb. 19, 2015. De, Rajesh. “Former NSA Lawyer on ‘Harm’ of Edward Snowden’s Revelations.” Bloomberg, Jaly 27, 2015. Gellman, Barton. “Code Name ‘Ver

nce Expert Guilty of Espionage,” Chicago Tribune, June 6, 1986. CHAPTER 26 The Handler 261 “As for [Snowden’s] communication”: Kucherena interview, Shevardnadze, “Snowden Believes He Did Everything Right.” 261 learned from a Russian researcher: Vassili Sonkine, interview with author. 261 When I had been inv

14th all the intelligence services in Hong Kong knew that she was in contact with Snowden. “I was being tailed,” she recalled in an interview with a Vogue reporter in Berlin in 2014. “The risks became very great,” she said in describing her situation in Hong Kong. So, on June 15", she left Hong Kong and

efense was what Snowden did with the second set afer his meetings with the journalists in Hong Kong. Did he take these documents with him to Russia? Shevardnadze, who makes it a point to drill her interviewees, pressed Kucherena as to whether Snowden still had these NSA files, or “material” in Russia. The dial

unmasked.” Times Magazine, August 29, 2015. 5. “Everyone was screaming ‘Snowden’...”—Author’s interview with Irina Galushka 6. “Sarah Harrison told Vogue ...”-- Sara Corbett. “How a Snowdenista Kept the NSA Leaker Hidden in a Moscow Airport,” Vogue, February 19, 2015. 7. “So either the rule...”—The ma

sitive for journalists. So I sought to find out from Kucherena which documents Snowden had taken to Russia. I went about it in a roundabout way. When Shevardnadze asked him about the secret material Snowden had might reveal in Russia, Kucherena pointedly called her attention to Snowden’s CIA service, suggesting