Snowden documentary reveals second leaker

NEW YORK, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- The New York premiere of a documentary on NSA leaker Edward Snowden revealed investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald has a second U.S. intelligence leaker.

Director Laura Poitras' documentary, Citizenfour, premiered Friday in New York, and one of the latter scenes in the film shows Greenwald telling Snowden during a Moscow meeting that he has a second source inside the U.S. intelligence agencies.

Snowden expressed surprise at the level of information Greenwald's source gave on the number of people under U.S. surveillance as potential threats or suspects.

Government officials told CNN in August a second leaker was suspected when information emerged that had not been available until after Snowden left his position as an NSA contractor.

Citizenfour, titled for the label Snowden used when he first contacted Poitras, also revealed Snowden has been joined in Moscow by his long-term girlfriend, Lindsay Mills. Previous reports indicated the couple became estranged when Snowden left Mills behind in the United States, but the documentary shows the couple living in domestic bliss.

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Snowden documentary reveals second leaker