File photo of Edward Snowden. PHOTO: REUTERS
Invisible in Moscow, Snowden Has a Big Global Impact -- Voice of America
MOSCOW — Edward Snowden, Moscow’s most famous American, will shortly mark six months in Russia. So far, he has had no face to face meetings with journalists and no meetings with the general public.
His three meetings with outsiders have been carefully staged events with sympathetic visitors. Two blurry photos have been released that appear to show the fugitive American intelligence leaker outside a supermarket and on a Moscow bridge.
His lawyer Anatoly Kucherena says Snowden started a job on Nov. 1, but he will not say where. Kucherena is a member of the oversight board of the FSB, Russia’s primary domestic intelligence agency.
Andrei Soldatov, an expert on Russia’s intelligence agencies, believes the FSB discreetly, but firmly controls Snowden’s new life in Russia.
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My Comment: This is a good and brief analysis on the role that Russia's intelligence may (or may not have had) on Snowden's NSA revelations and on how it is being played out in the world today.
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