Snowden says Russian intelligence wanted him to hand over US secrets

Edward Snowden confessed that Russian intelligence pressured him to cooperate when he first fled to the country after he leaked a trove of documents about the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs but insisted he didn’t give them anything.

Snowden has been living in Russia for the past six years. After leaving his job at the NSA in Hawaii in 2013, he traveled to Hong Kong and shared the secrets with several journalists. On his way to Ecuador to apply for asylum, he got stuck in Moscow after the U.S. revoked his passport.