eft—Mr. Snowden hoped to conceal this extraordinary waiver. The Russian government further revealed its helping hand, judging by a report in Russia’s Izvestia newspaper when, on arrival, Mr. Snowden was taken off the plane by a security team in a “special operation.” Nor was it any kind of accident. Vladim

itchell and Martin he claimed the status of a whistle-blower. This time, the KGB provided a newspaper platform. Writing in the Rus- © sian newspaper Izvestia, Hamilton revealed the extent of U.S. spying © on its allies in the Middle East. None of these three 1960s defectors revealed what, if any, NSA secr