n intelligence. He had indeed taken that position so he could arrange to have published classified communications intelligence (COMINT), as he told the South China Post in June 2013. The point of Snowden s penetration was to get classified data from the NSA. He subsequently stated "My position with Booz Allen Hamilt

e took with him level 3 NSA secrets which he could assume would be of great interest to China. In fact, he advertised this fact in his interview with the South China Post, a newspaper controlled in 2013 by mainland China. Whatever he may have assumed about the inability of the CIA to stop him in Hong Kong, he had no re