Contents tagged with Edward Snowden

  • German counterintelligence: Snowden is a part of Kremlin’s war against the West

    The President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution of Germany (counterintelligence), Hans-Georg Maassen, admits that ex-officer of the U.S. special services Edward Snowden is an agent of the Russian special services. Maassen made it clear that he has reasons to consider Snowden's activity a "part of the hybrid war led by Russia against the West".

    In turn, Snowden, in an interview with the Spiegel newspaper, claimed that he was not a Russian spy.

    "He [Maassen] did not …

  • Snowden's lawyer says reports of his client's extradition are rumors

    Lawyer Anatoly Kucherena, representing the interests of ex-CIA employee and notorious whistleblower Edward Snowden said that there was no merit to the information from western media that Moscow is considering Snowden’s extradition to the USA as a present to President Trump.

    “Russia has no legal basis for extraditing Snowden. All these talks are simple speculations. This is someone’s wishful thinking,” Kucherena told Interfax on Saturday, February 12. “Someone in Washington, in the USA really …

  • Russia extended residence permit for Snowden

    Russian authorities have extended former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee Edward Snowden’s residence permit in the Russian Federation for two more years, as stated by the Director of the Information and Press Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, on her Facebook page.

    "The funny thing is that the former Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency doesn’t know that Snowden’s residence permit in Russia has just been extended for two more years," …

  • Snowden: Russia may be behind cyber attacks in the US

    Edward Snowden, a former U.S. National Security Agency programmer who was granted asylum in Russia after the scandalous revelations of U.S. intelligence activities, expressed confidence that Moscow "has gone too far" in the infringement of social and individual rights and freedoms, as he stated in an interview with the British newspaper, Financial Times. The former U.S. intelligence employee expressed confidence that the Kremlin's actions are "totally unnecessary, wasteful and destructive" for …