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I've been had.
A troll the entire time!
The lion's share of the United States needed Snowden.
The survey found that 55 percent of respondents think Snowden did the right thing in exposing PRISM, the mass data-mining program, while another 29 percent believe he was in the wrong, and 16 percent endorse neither statement.
Ex-KGB Major Boris Karpichko told Nigel Nelson of The Mirror that spies from Russia’s SVR intelligence service, posing as diplomats in Hong Kong, convinced Snowden to fly to Moscow last June.
“It was a trick and he fell for it," Karpichko, who reached the rank of Major as a member of the KGB's prestigious Second Directorate while specializing in counter-intelligence, told Nelson. "Now the Russians are extracting all the intelligence he possesses.”
Karpichko fled Moscow in 1998 after spying on his native Latvia for the KGB and the post-Soviet FSB. The 55-year-old says he is still in contact with several of his old spy pals.
Snowden flew from Hawaii to Hong Kong on May 20, 2013 and identified himself to the world on June 9. The 30-year-old American became stranded in Moscow on June 23 after he landed with a void U.S. passport and an unsigned travel Ecuadorian document obtained by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Karpichko said that the Kremlin leaked Snowden’s planned flight to Moscow to provoke the U.S. into revoking Snowden's passport, which Washington did on June 22. Assange also advised Snowden that "he would be physically safest in Russia."
Snowden has been living under the protection of the post-Soviet security services (FS
"His flat is heavily alarmed to stop anything happening to him," Karpichko said. "He meets the FSB twice a week over plenty of food and drink.”
Former KGB General Olig Kalugin recently told VentureBeat that “the Russians are very pleased with the gifts Edward Snowden has given them. He’s busy doing something. He is not just idling his way through life."
Back to the CIA
Karpichko also claims that Moscow spotted Snowden as a candidate for defection in 2007 and opened a file on him while he worked for the CIA in Geneva.
The CIA hired Snowden as a systems administrator and technician in 2006, subsequently sending him to Geneva in early 2007 under diplomatic cover at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. Then 24, Snowden "was in the system. He was reading the traffic" at the Geneva CIA station, one former CIA official told Vanity Fair.
Snowden has said that he first considered leaking documents around 2008. He resigned from the CIA in early 2009 after becoming "disillusioned" about how the U.S. government functions. He excelled at several jobs for the NSA and as an NSA contractor before fleeing to Hong Kong.
The U.S. government believes Snowden, who had a web presence from 2001 until May 2012, began downloading documents in the summer of 2012 and eventually stole around 1.5 million documents — about 200,000 of which he gave to journalists.
It is unclear when or if the former NSA systems administrator gave up access to the cache of up to 1.5 million documents, which is suspected to contain military intel. Snowden recently told NBC that he "destroyed" them but had previously told the New York Times that he gave them all to journalists he met in Hong Kong.
As an experienced systems administrator, Snowden is especially appealing to spy services hostile to America. Both the U.S. and U.K. claim that the Snowden leaks have done staggering damage to their spy operations. In any case, Snowden's brain is a very valuable asset to his hosts in Moscow.
“He will stay in Russia until they have got everything they want from him," Karpichko said. "They need the time to extract all the classified intelligence he possesses about the operational methods and tactics of Western security agencies."
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/ex-kgb-spy-the-russians-tricked-snowden-…
Amazing how a man who defected and cut all ties with Russian intelligence in 1998 knows all about what's happening in 2013.
"Boris Karpichkov defected in 1998 when he was charged with supplying confidential information to foreign agents."
This guy seems trustworthy.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/feb/22/confessions-of-a-kgb-spy
He spied against Latvia too, what a hero!
I wonder if this guy has any motive to lie?
Pit Row
What exactly is wrong or untrue with what he said? Is Snowden somewhere else or do you believe Kremlin gave him asylum because they are very human Kremlin.
The only thing we have to go by is the credibility of the messenger. This guy has snitched on his own country, defected over a decade ago, and is now writing a book but can't find a publisher.
"He's painting Snowden in a bad light so whatever he says must be true" -Kongols
The US government hates this guy right now, WHY WOULDN'T they give him temporary asylum? There are so many reasons for why this would be a good strategic move for Russia.
Boris Karpichkov, who fled to Britain after 15 years as a KGB agent, claims a London intelligence contractor linked to MI5 told him Dr Kelly's death was not suicide.
Ex-KGB agent sues MI5 over 'privacy breach'
I have serious reasons to believe that I had been poisoned, while in New Zealand, at some point in the previous few months, by, I suspect, my former ‘colleagues’. LOL @ " boriskarpichkov.blogspot.com "
In pictures: Spy Boris Karpichkov’s KGB memorabilia
He provided Americans with evidence that their government was subverting their Constitutionally guaranteed rights. In doing so he gave up his ability to return to the country that he loves. PATRIOT.
He a attention whore, nothing more, nothing less.
"Snowden is an attention whore because the information he exposed could have been ascertained through other means."
Each revelation is newsworthy not because of its source, it's popular news because it involves every American's Fourth Amendment rights. Large scale spying? Yeah I want to hear about it. The government can collect all your meta-data? Yeah that's going to garnish attention. The government is building the world's largest data facility and has wire rooms in AT&T routing centers across America? Pretty funking newsworthy info.
Snowden has given ONE interview to a US organization and he's an attention whore? If the info he was exposing was common knowledge to the average American, we wouldn't know the name Edward Snowden.
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the original point stands
Honestly I believe Obama has put more Americans in danger by negotiating with Terrorists
Not many people, unfortunately, were aware.
It took a person like Snowden to bring attention to this.
Without Edward would the NSA be getting this much attention? NO. ABSOLUTELY NOT.
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