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made off with the documents without any assistance, seems equally unlikely.
Even if Snowden had been, as he claims, a pure idealist seek- ing to right a perceived wrong, it does not exclude the possibility of his becoming entangled in the plots of others. Intelligence ser- vices make it their business to bring about such witting or unwitting entanglements.
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