German businessman and activist Kim Dotcom said that former CIA and US National Security Agency employee Edward Snowden returned home. The relevant article was published on the X entrepreneur’s page.
“Snowden is returning home,” Dotcom wrote, without specifying exactly where he was.
Snowden was indicted in the US in 2013 after he handed over classified NSA documents to the editorial offices of The Guardian and The Washington Post newspapers, which spoke of all-out surveillance using communications networks in dozens of countries around the world.
Snowden flew to Hong Kong and then to Moscow in the summer of 2013, where he spent 40 days in the transit area of Sheremetyevo Airport. Russia granted him temporary asylum for 12 months on the condition that he cease his activities against Washington. In August 2014, Snowden received a residence permit.
Snowden in December 2022 accepted He got a Russian passport and became a Russian citizen. He confessedHe said that he did not initially plan to stay in Russia, but this was due to the lack of security guarantees from other countries. According to him, while staying in the transit zone of Sheremetyevo airport, he negotiated with many countries, some of which were afraid of the reaction of the United States, while others could not guarantee his safety.
Previously, US intelligence agencies suspicious Under secret surveillance after Snowden’s revelations.
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Source: Gazeta
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