Fugitive intelligence leaker Edward Snowden voiced fears that US "government officials want to kill me", in a TV interview to be broadcast in Germany on Sunday night.
The comment comes just days after Snowden's Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena said the American feared for his life, following a report by US website BuzzFeed of explicit threats against him from unnamed Pentagon and National Security Agency (NSA) officials.
Snowden also told the German broadcaster: "These people, and they are government officials, have said they would love to put a bullet in my head or poison me when I come out of the supermarket, and then watch as I die in the shower."
The translated Snowden quotes were released by public television broadcaster ARD, as part of a longer interview shot secretly in Moscow that it plans to screen later on Sunday.
According to ARD, Snowden also claims in the interview that the NSA is involved in industrial espionage. Full story...
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The comment comes just days after Snowden's Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena said the American feared for his life, following a report by US website BuzzFeed of explicit threats against him from unnamed Pentagon and National Security Agency (NSA) officials.
Snowden also told the German broadcaster: "These people, and they are government officials, have said they would love to put a bullet in my head or poison me when I come out of the supermarket, and then watch as I die in the shower."
The translated Snowden quotes were released by public television broadcaster ARD, as part of a longer interview shot secretly in Moscow that it plans to screen later on Sunday.
According to ARD, Snowden also claims in the interview that the NSA is involved in industrial espionage. Full story...
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