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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 | | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_r1.indd 326 ® 9/30/16 8:13AM | | HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019814