{"id":28576,"date":"2015-01-14T21:43:18","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T02:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/uncategorized\/russian-spy-agency-allegedly-tried-to-hire-edward-snowden.php"},"modified":"2015-01-14T21:43:18","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T02:43:18","slug":"russian-spy-agency-allegedly-tried-to-hire-edward-snowden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/edward-snowden\/russian-spy-agency-allegedly-tried-to-hire-edward-snowden.php","title":{"rendered":"Russian Spy Agency Allegedly Tried To Hire Edward Snowden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    FILE - In this file image made from    video released by WikiLeaks on Friday, Oct. 11, 2013, former    National Security Agency systems analyst Edward Snowden speaks    during a presentation ceremony for the Sam Adams Award in    Moscow, Russia. Snowden was awarded the Sam Adams Award,    according to videos released by the organization WikiLeaks. The    award ceremony was attended by three previous recipients. (AP    Photo, File) | ASSOCIATED PRESS  <\/p>\n<p>    BERLIN (AP)  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>See more here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/01\/12\/snowden-russian-spy_n_6455210.html\" title=\"Russian Spy Agency Allegedly Tried To Hire Edward Snowden\">Russian Spy Agency Allegedly Tried To Hire Edward Snowden<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> FILE - In this file image made from video released by WikiLeaks on Friday, Oct. 11, 2013, former National Security Agency systems analyst Edward Snowden speaks during a presentation ceremony for the Sam Adams Award in Moscow, Russia<\/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-28576","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\/28576"}],"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=28576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}