Ex-KGB Spy Says Russia Tricked Snowden Into Going To Moscow

[jimnyc]

A former KGB major says Russian spies disguised as diplomats in Hong Kong tricked National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden into flying to Moscow, where they’ve since harvested the former contractor’s sensitive intelligence knowledge.

“It was a trick and he fell for it,” 55-year-old ex-Major Boris Karpichko told The Mirror. ”Now the Russians are extracting all the intelligence he possesses.”

Karpichko was a member of the KGB’s Second Directorate specializing in counter-intelligence, and fled Moscow in 1998 after spying on his native country of Latvia for the KGB and it’s post-soviet successor, the FSB. The ex-major says he is still in contact with several Russian intelligence colleagues, who informed him that spies from Russia’s external intelligence service (SVR) were responsible for getting Snowden into Moscow.

According to Karpichko, the Kremlin leaked Snowden’s flight plan from Hong Kong to Moscow under the assumption that the U.S. would revoke it, which they did on June 22, stranding Snowden in the airport as of June 23.

Since obtaining asylum on Aug. 1, Snowden has been living under FSB protection in a Moscow suburb controlled by the agency, according to former KGB spy.

“His flat is heavily alarmed to stop anything happening to him,” Karpichko said. “He meets the FSB twice a week over plenty of food and drink.”

“The Russians are very pleased with the gifts Edward Snowden has given them,” former KGB General Olig Kalugin said, echoing Karpichko’s assertion. ”He’s busy doing something. He is not just idling his way through life.”

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/09/ex...#ixzz34EtIhzYA

[Gaffer]

He was played like an expensive violin in the hands of a virtuoso. Once he's of no more use to them they will revoke his asylum and boot him out, or remove the protections so an assassin can finish the deal.