{"id":28545,"date":"2015-01-13T09:42:01","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T14:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/uncategorized\/snowden-ally-says-russian-spy-agency-sought-to-recruit-nsa-leaker-but-he-declined-offer.php"},"modified":"2015-01-13T09:42:01","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T14:42:01","slug":"snowden-ally-says-russian-spy-agency-sought-to-recruit-nsa-leaker-but-he-declined-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/edward-snowden\/snowden-ally-says-russian-spy-agency-sought-to-recruit-nsa-leaker-but-he-declined-offer.php","title":{"rendered":"Snowden ally says Russian spy agency sought to recruit NSA leaker, but he declined offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Published January 12, 2015    <\/p>\n<p>    BERLIN  A close ally of    Edward Snowden has told filmmakers that Russia's intelligence    agency sought to recruit the former NSA contractor, but he    declined the offer.  <\/p>\n<p>    WikiLeaks staffer Sarah Harrison says the Russian FSB    intelligence security service approached Snowden while he was    stuck in the transit area of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport for    six weeks in 2013.  <\/p>\n<p>    At the time, Snowden was unable to enter Russia or fly    elsewhere because his passport had been canceled by U.S.    authorities seeking to arrest him for leaking secret documents.  <\/p>\n<p>    Harrison told German filmmakers in a documentary airing late    Monday that the FSB asked only once, and he \"didn't give    anything to the Russians at all.\" The FSB did not respond to an    AP request for comment.  <\/p>\n<p>    Russia granted Snowden temporary asylum in August 2013.  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Continued here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2015\/01\/12\/snowden-ally-says-russian-spy-agency-sought-to-recruit-nsa-leaker-but-declined\" title=\"Snowden ally says Russian spy agency sought to recruit NSA leaker, but he declined offer\">Snowden ally says Russian spy agency sought to recruit NSA leaker, but he declined offer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Published January 12, 2015 BERLIN A close ally of Edward Snowden has told filmmakers that Russia's intelligence agency sought to recruit the former NSA contractor, but he declined the offer. <\/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-28545","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\/28545"}],"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=28545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}