National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden has certainly collaborated with Russian intelligence officials, a former KGB general said Tuesday.

But Oleg Kalugin, who once managed spy operations out of the Soviet Embassy in Washington, said Snowden’s significance has been “exaggerated,” and the Russians likely already knew much of what he revealed.

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