326 | Notes to pages 252-280
CHAPTER 24 Off to Moscow
247 “They talk about Russia”: Bamford and De Chant, “Edward Snowden on Cyber
Warfare.”
247 Before flying to Moscow: Stone, interview with author.
248 $1 million: Mike Fleming Jr, “Oliver Stone Buys Edward Snowden Russian
Lawyer's ‘Novel’ About Asylum-Seeking Whistleblower,” Deadline, June 10,
2014.
249 “I have been trying”: Bamford, “Edward Snowden.”
249 “There is only one door”: Gotta, e-mail exchange with author.
250 “A special operation”: Gridasov, Yavlyansky, and Gorkovskaya, “Secret Services in Moscow with WikiLeaks Conducted Operation Snowden.”
251 “If they [the U.S. government]”: Vanden Heuvel and Cohen, “Snowden Speaks.”
251 Overa hundred reporters: Irina Galushka, interview with author.
251 A statement posted: “Statement from Edward Snowden in Moscow,” https:// WikiLeaks.org/Statement-from-Edward-Snowden-in.html.
252 Sarah Harrison, Snowden’s companion: Corbett, “How a Snowdenista Kept the NSA Leaker Hidden in a Moscow Airport.”
252 So either the rule: The maximum stay is listed on the hotel’s website, http:// www.v-exp.ru/en/price/.
253 “It was a total vanishing act”: Piskunovy, interview with author.
Cuarter 25 Through the Looking Glass
254 “There's definitely a deep state”: Vanden Heuvel and Cohen, “Snowden Speaks.”
255 according to Cherkashin: Cherkashin, interview with author.
258 Pelton had left the NSA: George E. Curry, “Ex-intelligence Expert Guilty of Espionage,” Chicago Tribune, June 6, 1986.
CHAPTER 26 The Handler
261 “As for [Snowden’s] communication”: Kucherena interview, Shevardnadze, “Snowden Believes He Did Everything Right.”
261 learned from a Russian researcher: Vassili Sonkine, interview with author.
261 When I had been investigating: Edward Jay Epstein, The Annals of Unsolved Crime (Brooklyn: Melville House, 2013), 209-40.
262 “I don’t know him”: Lugovoy, interview with author.
264 It was rare: The vast majority of the fifteen American defectors to the Soviet Union in the Cold War, including Joel Barr, Morris and Lona Cohen, Victor Ham- ilton, Edward Lee Howard, George Koval, Bernon Mitchell, William Martin, Isa- iah Oggins, Alfred Sarant, Robert E. Webster, and Flora Wovschin, were involved in espionage. The remaining three, Harold M. Koch, a Catholic priest protest- ing the Vietnam War; Arnold Lockshin, a Communist Party organizer; and Lee Harvey Oswald, a U.S. marine, defected for idealistic principles. All were given asylum, and two, Webster and Oswald, redefected to the United States.
265 “It was totally bizarre”: Lokshina, interview with author. Also, “Meeting Edward
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