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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAs the whole Snowden episode starts resembling a new Bourne movie, here is a fun possible plot twist
he is working for the CIA right now and this is all a cover to get the Chinese to take him in and trust him as he feeds them all sorts of misinformation.
graham4anything
(11,464 posts)DetlefK
(16,423 posts)arely staircase
(12,482 posts)nt
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)By Jia Lynn Yang
Updated: Monday, June 10, 10:12 AM
... Snowden ... told The Washington Post he was holed up at a hotel near the CIA base at the consulate ... A receptionist at the Mira Hotel, in a neighborhood just across the harbor from the main island, said a guest named Edward Snowden had been staying there, but checked out Monday ...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/hong-kong-hotel-says-edward-snowden-was-there-but-checked-out-monday/2013/06/10/44baa0fa-d1af-11e2-a73e-826d299ff459_story.html
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)meaning he could be working fo the CIA as I speculated, or trying to sell his country out to the Chinese, as others have speculated or some wierd combination thereof that only Jon LeCarre could imagine. He could be what he claims to be, in which case his choice of China as place to which to flee will bring all those forces into play anyway.
Maybe he is a Russian agent playing both the US and the Chinese.
Eithr way, the plot thickens.
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)arely staircase
(12,482 posts)I guess they don't have holiday inn in hong kong?
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)to run up a substantial tab after a few weeks
arely staircase
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longship
(40,416 posts)I suppose it's possible, but I sincerely doubt that what you describe is the case.
I suspect that this is pretty much along the lines being reported.
I have many questions, but I am not interested in answering them by speculating. I am comfortable saying that I don't know.
However, your post does have entertainment value. Hence, my Kick here.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)for entertainment purposes, here is what i posted in another thread explaining how it could happen:
"Look, US contractor/spy pretends to go rogue and give a bunch of information to a journalist But the funny thing is, there isn't all that much new to it, just enough to stir things up. The US makes all sorts of breathless pronouncements and denouncements.
Then, while bemoaning lack of privacy in the US, the contractor/spy flees to one of the biggest authoritarian regimes in the world, and has his meeting with the journalist mentioned above, in a hotel near the US consulate (and likely CIA station.) This authoritarian regime is well known to be the US's biggest cyber rival/enemy.
longship
(40,416 posts)Maybe Dicaprio will be available. Or, the next Bond flick?
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)And his girlfriend that no one has seen? That's him, too. There were never seen together.
I think the poor boy may have a loose screw or two but I don't see triple or quadruple agenting going on. I think, like Ecuador, Hong Kong will be only too happy to hand him over. If he's still there.
You know, since he's not afraid of the consequences, as he says.
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arely staircase
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HipChick
(25,485 posts)The main airport in Hong Kong is only accessible via bridge, and basically sits on an Island...the island of Chek Lap Kok
Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)I would love to know how a 29 yr. old 200K/yr computer security expert has pre-Law writing abilities without a HS diploma. If his parents were PhDs, maybe.....
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)at least it doesn't add up to what we are being told by anyone.