Snowden Says He Took No Secret Files to Russia

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/18/world/snowden-says-he-took-no-secret-files-to-russia.html

By James Risen
The New York Times
October 17, 2013

WASHINGTON -- Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency 
contractor, said in an extensive interview this month that he did not take 
any secret N.S.A. documents with him to Russia when he fled there in June, 
assuring that Russian intelligence officials could not get access to them.

Mr. Snowden said he gave all of the classified documents he had obtained 
to journalists he met in Hong Kong, before flying to Moscow, and did not 
keep any copies for himself. He did not take the files to Russia "because 
it wouldn’t serve the public interest," he said.

"What would be the unique value of personally carrying another copy of the 
materials onward?" he added.

He also asserted that he was able to protect the documents from China's 
spies because he was familiar with that nation's intelligence abilities, 
saying that as an N.S.A. contractor he had targeted Chinese operations and 
had taught a course on Chinese cybercounterintelligence.

"There's a zero percent chance the Russians or Chinese have received any 
documents," he said.

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