Now granted, this is from the UK Daily Mail, aka the ‘Daily Fail’, but it’s interesting nonetheless.

Edward Snowden was in Moscow’s sights six years before leaking U.S. secrets claims former KGB agent

Russian spies ‘tricked’ US whistleblower Edward Snowden into asking Moscow for asylum by posing as diplomats after spending six years targeting him, a former major in the KGB has claimed.

Boris Karpichkov, who fled Russia after 15 years serving with the KGB said Snowden had been identified as a potential defector as far back as 2007.

Snowden, 30, arrived in Moscow after he was revealed as responsible for leaking more than 1.7 million highly classified US documents.

Former CIA official Robert Baer has said the US has began investigating whether Snowden had been turned by the Russians in 2007.

Baer believes the Russians will want to know the extent of the West’s electronic interception capability.

dailymail.co.uk

Bear in mind, the DM is a tabloid, so take it with a grain of salt.