Edward Snowden checked out of a hotel in Hong Kong and hid

Edward Snowden was discharged from the hotel in which he had been living for the last three weeks and disappeared in an unknown direction, according to journalists from the BBC , Reuters and other news agencies. Yesterday they arrived at the hotel in the hope of finding an informant - but he was already gone.

A former information security specialist and system administrator for Booz Allen Hamilton worked in the National Security Agency office in Hawaii. In May 2013, he handed blogger Glenn Greenwald from The Guardian, as well as to the Washington Post, a number of NSA secret documents, including a 41-page presentation on the PRISM interception project, of which only five slides have been published so far.


Glenn Greenwald published all The Guardian articles on NSA secret documents, he also spent several days in the same Hong Kong hotel where Snowden lived, and recorded a great video interview with him.

Now we can assume that Greenwald is aware of Snowden's plans, and he would certainly have raised the alarm if the disappearance of the latter was unplanned.
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Snowden was discharged from the hotel yesterday at about 12:00 local time, that is, immediately after an interview with him was published on the Internet - a few hours before the crowd of journalists arrived at the hotel.

It is assumed that Snowden arrived in Hong Kong on May 20. Americans can enter Hong Kong without a visa for up to 90 days. This country has signed an extradition agreement with the United States, but at the moment it is not de facto valid .

Representatives of the newspaper The Guardian say that Snowden, presumably, is still in Hong Kong.

PS Meanwhile, Booz Allen Hamilton is looking for a new system administrator for an office in Hawaii.

PPS The petition in support of Snowden has already collected 40,595 signatures out of 100,000 required to receive an official response from the White House.

UPD 11.06. Snowden was found today in another Hong Kong hospitality by journalists from the South China Morning Post, and interviewed him . In the first interview for the Chinese media, the informer said that American hackers have been attacking Chinese targets since 2009 by order of the US government. In particular, hacked routers on large backbones. According to Snowden, the NSA took part in 61,000 hacker operations around the world, including several hundred in China. Regarding his personal plans, Snowden said he intends to stay in Hong Kong for now and is going to resist US attempts to extradite him.