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Snowden contacts Julian Assange while Hong Kong intelligence tails journalist Laura Poitras

Snowden contacts Julian Assange while Hong Kong intelligence tails journalist Laura Poitras The passage hints at a direct communication between Edward Snowden and Julian Assange during Snowden's exit from Hong Kong and suggests that Hong Kong intelligence services were monitoring journalist Laura Poitras. While the Snowden‑Assange link is known, the specific timing (June 14‑15) and the claim of Hong Kong agencies’ awareness provide a moderately actionable lead for investigators to verify communications logs or surveillance records. Key insights: Snowden called Julian Assange on June 14‑15, 2013 while arranging his departure from Hong Kong.; Hong Kong intelligence services reportedly knew Poitras was in contact with Snowden and tailed her.; Poitras fled Hong Kong on June 15, 2013, citing heightened risk.

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Snowden contacts Julian Assange while Hong Kong intelligence tails journalist Laura Poitras The passage hints at a direct communication between Edward Snowden and Julian Assange during Snowden's exit from Hong Kong and suggests that Hong Kong intelligence services were monitoring journalist Laura Poitras. While the Snowden‑Assange link is known, the specific timing (June 14‑15) and the claim of Hong Kong agencies’ awareness provide a moderately actionable lead for investigators to verify communications logs or surveillance records. Key insights: Snowden called Julian Assange on June 14‑15, 2013 while arranging his departure from Hong Kong.; Hong Kong intelligence services reportedly knew Poitras was in contact with Snowden and tailed her.; Poitras fled Hong Kong on June 15, 2013, citing heightened risk.

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104 journalists in each country to make their own assessment, independent of my bias, as to whether or not the knowledge of U.S. network operations against their people should be published.” So as late as June 14", Snowden was still reading and assessing the files he had stolen from the NSA four weeks earlier. Poitras vetted the Lam interview. Soon afterwards she suspected that she was being followed. That was likely since by this June 14th all the intelligence services in Hong Kong knew that she was in contact with Snowden. “I was being tailed,” she recalled in an interview with a Vogue reporter in Berlin in 2014. “The risks became very great,” she said in describing her situation in Hong Kong. So, on June 15", she left Hong Kong and flew back to Berlin, where she began editing her footage of the Snowden interview. Meanwhile, Snowden was organizing his own exit from Hong Kong. He placed a call to Julian Assange.

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