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The Kremlim admits Snowden is a Russian Agent |
2016-07-04 |
![]() Then there is the messy question of Snowden’s ties with the Kremlin. To anybody acquainted with the world of espionage, particularly when it involves Russians, Snowden is a defector and his collaboration with Moscow’s security agencies is a sure thing – as I explained recently. Experts on the Kremlin’s powerful intelligence apparatus, what Russians call the “special services,” have no doubt that collaboration is a matter of simple quid pro quo. Any Western intelligence official who receives sanctuary in Russia will share what he knows with his hosts: there is no choice in the matter. Snowden and his representatives have insisted that he is no collaborator. The official story is that Snowden arrived in Moscow with none of the classified documents he stole from NSA, and he refused to share secrets with Russian intelligence. According to Wikileaks, which told Snowden to flee to Moscow, the defector was approached by Russian spies after his arrival in their country, but refused to spill secrets. Since Wikileaks itself is now more or less openly a front for the Kremlin, with its head Julian Assange mouthing pro-Putin propaganda with increasing frequency, there’s no reason to take its claims about Snowden seriously – particularly given Assange’s admitted role in getting the American to Moscow in the first place. |
Posted by:Pappy |
#2 A very minor concession. The Kremlin still denies having any direct ties to the Champ, VlaJar, or Brennan. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2016-07-04 05:54 |
#1 The White House only a month ago explained that it considers Snowden to be a criminal While Hillary has nothing to be ashamed off? |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-07-04 03:47 |