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CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
The Handler
1. “As for his [Snowden’s] communication...”-- Anatoly Kucherena Interview, “Snowden believes he did everything right,” Sophie & Co, RT Television, September 23,2013
2. “I learned from a Russian researcher...”-- Author’s interview with Vassili Sonkine
3. “When I had been investigating...”—Edward Jay Epstein, Annals of Unsolved Crime, op.cit, pp. 209-240
4. “I don’t know him...”—Author’s interview with Andrei Lugovoi
5. “It was a rare...”— The vast majority of the 15 Americans defectors to the Soviet Union in the Cold War, including Joel Barr, Morris and Lona Cohen, Victor Hamilton, Edward Lee Howard, George Koval, Bernon Mitchell, William Martin, Isaiah Oggins, Alfred Sarant, Robert E. Webster and Flora Wovschin were involved in espionage. The remaining three, Harold N. Kochs, a Catholic Priest protesting 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.
6. “They had been invited...”—Tanya Lokshinam “Meeting Edward Snowden,” Dispatches, July 13,2015 https://www.hrw.org/news/2013/07/12/dispatches-meeting-edward-snowden
7. “Read a prepared statement. ..”—“Statement by Edward Snowden,” July 12, 2013, https://wikileaks.org/Statement-by-Edward-Snowden-to.html.
8. “Iasked how he...”-- Author’s interview with Anatoly Kucherena.
“Kucherena had personally approved. ...”—Author’s interview with Sophie Shevardnadze
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