ss, Donald Maclean, and Kim Philby fled to Moscow during the Cold War, the presumption was that they had a prior intelligence connection with Russia. Philby confirmed that in his 1968 memoir, My Silent War. So in the case of Snowden, coun- terintelligence had to consider the possibility that his theft of

aclean and Kim Philby, for example, fled to Moscow in the Cold War the presumption was that they had a prior intelligence connection with Russia. And Philby confirmed it in his 1968 memoir “My Silent War.” So in the case of Snowden, counterintelligence had to consider the possibility that his theft of sta