Snowden Denies Working as Foreign Agent, Seeks Protection

Edward Snowden, the former security contractor who exposed top-secret U.S. spying programs, said he worked alone in taking classified documents and denied American lawmakers’ claims that he was an agent for a foreign government.

Accusations that Snowden was working for Russia or another country when he took thousands of classified documents on U.S. spying programs are “clearly false” and “won’t stick,” Snowden said in an interview with the New Yorker published on its website. The magazine said the interview was conducted via encrypted means, without elaborating.