{"id":23848,"date":"2014-06-10T03:42:33","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T07:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/?p=23848"},"modified":"2014-06-10T03:42:33","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T07:42:33","slug":"edward-snowden-was-in-moscows-sights-six-years-before-leaking-u-s-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/edward-snowden\/edward-snowden-was-in-moscows-sights-six-years-before-leaking-u-s-secrets.php","title":{"rendered":"Edward Snowden was in Moscow&#8217;s sights six years before leaking U.S. secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Moscow identified Edward Snowden as a possible      defector in 2007              Former KGB chief Boris Karpichkov said Moscow      'tricked' Snowden              Russians began monitoring Snowden, 30, in Geneva      while at the CIA              US officials trying to establish whether Snowden as      a double agent<\/p>\n<p>    By Darren Boyle  <\/p>\n<p>    Published: 06:05 EST, 8 June    2014 | Updated: 14:34 EST, 8 June    2014  <\/p>\n<p>      1,062 shares    <\/p>\n<p>      226    <\/p>\n<p>      View      comments    <\/p>\n<p>    Russian spies 'tricked' US whistleblower Edward Snowden    into asking Moscow for asylum by posing as diplomats after    spending six years targeting him, a former major in the KGB has    claimed.<\/p>\n<p>    Boris Karpichkov, who fled Russia after 15 years serving    with the KGB said Snowden had been identified as a potential    defector as far back as 2007.<\/p>\n<p>    Snowden, 30, arrived in Moscow after he was revealed as    responsible for leaking more than 1.7 million highly classified    US documents.<\/p>\n<p>      Former KGB spy Boris Karpichkov, left, said Russian security      services first identified Edward Snowden, right, as a      possible defector back in 2007 while he working with the CIA      in Geneva as a communications specialist<\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>See original here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2651973\/Edward-Snowden-Moscows-sights-six-years-leaking-U-S-secrets-claims-former-KGB-agent.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490\/RK=0\/RS=TE9QRsHMt75EOuOhxi9eDoca0xo-\" title=\"Edward Snowden was in Moscow's sights six years before leaking U.S. secrets\">Edward Snowden was in Moscow's sights six years before leaking U.S. secrets<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Moscow identified Edward Snowden as a possible defector in 2007 Former KGB chief Boris Karpichkov said Moscow 'tricked' Snowden Russians began monitoring Snowden, 30, in Geneva while at the CIA US officials trying to establish whether Snowden as a double agent By Darren Boyle Published: 06:05 EST, 8 June 2014 | Updated: 14:34 EST, 8 June 2014 1,062 shares 226 View comments Russian spies 'tricked' US whistleblower Edward Snowden into asking Moscow for asylum by posing as diplomats after spending six years targeting him, a former major in the KGB has claimed. Boris Karpichkov, who fled Russia after 15 years serving with the KGB said Snowden had been identified as a potential defector as far back as 2007<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edward-snowden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}