re: #391 simoom

Did the Russian secret service approach you?

- Of course. Even the secret service of Andorra would have approached me, if they had had the chance: that’s their job.

But I didn’t take any documents with me from Hong Kong, and while I’m sure they were disappointed, it doesn’t take long for an intelligence service to realize when they’re out of luck. I was also accompanied at all times by an utterly fearless journalist with one of the biggest megaphones in the world, which is the equivalent of Kryptonite for spies. As a consequence, we spent the next 40 days trapped in an airport instead of sleeping on piles of money while waiting for the next parade. But we walked out with heads held high.

I would also add, for the record, that the United States government has repeatedly acknowledged that there is no evidence at all of any relationship between myself and the Russian intelligence service.

Another odd response. So he says he has been in contact with Russian intelligence. He claims he didn’t have any documents with him, and implies he’d have been richly rewarded if he had (“sleeping on piles of money while waiting for the next parade”). He also implies that somehow Wikileaks’ Sarah Harrison protected him from being used by foreign intelligence services, which while ridiculous on its face, makes even less sense given she’s long since left his company. He doesn’t give any detail about what he discussed with or told Russian intelligence, and doesn’t outright deny an ongoing relationship with them, but instead just writes that the US gov’t has no evidence of it.