Epstein Secrets

all the intelligence services in Hong Kong knew that she was in contact with Snowden. “I was being tailed,” Poitras recalled in an interview with a Vogue | | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_r1.z.indd 97 @ 9/29/16 5:51 Pa | | HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019585 98 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS reporter in Berlin in 2

n moles eluded long, intensive investigations. Rob- ert Hanssen penetrated the FBI for over twenty years for the KGB without being caught. Similarly, Aldrich Ames acted as a KGB mole @ in the CIA for more than ten years and passed all the CIA’s sophisti- @ cated lie detector tests. Both Hanssen and Ames eluded

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

TO SNOWDEN’S THEFT of NSA documents, the single most shattering blow to the confidence of the U.S. intelligence com- munity was the 1994 exposure of Aldrich Ames as a long-serving Russian mole in the CIA. Ames, it will be recalled, had been a high- ranking CIA officer, working at the CIA’s Counterintelligence

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

d intensive investigations for many decades. Robert Hanssen served as a KGB penetration in the FBI for over 20 years without being caught. Similarly, Aldrich Ames, acted as a KGB mole in the CIA for more than ten years, and passed all the CIA’s sophisticated lie detector tests. Both Hanssen and Ames eluded inte

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

of evidence is...” —Carl Sagan, Cosmos (Random House, New York) 1980. P. 49 15. “We have many notable cases...” For the cases of Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames, see Appendix A 16. “The greatest trick the...”—Author’s interview with Victor Cherkashin. The quote from Zhe Usual Suspects was adopted by the movi