Edward Snowden Seeking to Join KGB Veterans Group

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http://freebeacon.com/edward-snowden-seeking-to-join-kgb-veterans-group/

By Bill Gertz
Washington Free Beacon
July 24, 2013

Renegade National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden has applied to join 
a group of former Russian intelligence and security officials, according to the 
group's director.

Participation in a union of former KGB security, intelligence, and police 
officials, would likely change Snowden’s status from that of a whistleblower 
seeking to expose wrongdoing, to an intelligence defector who has changed 
sides.

Alexei Lobarev, chairman of the group called "Veterans of the Siloviki" -- 
literally "men of power" -- told a Russian news outlet on Monday that Snowden, 
who has been staying in a Moscow airport transit lounge for a month, applied 
for membership in the group.

The state-run RIA Novosti news agency reported Wednesday that the Russian 
Federal Migration Service issued an official paper to Snowden that will allow 
him to leave the transit zone of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport as part of an 
agreement with the Border Guard Service.

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