Reddit reviews The Snowden Operation: Inside the West’s Greatest Intelligence Disaster (Kindle Single)

>Garry Kasparov is not a very good source, he has virtually no political base except for ancedotes

I mean, aside from being very good friends with Boris Nemtsov, who Putin murdered...

But fine, here's Schindler and Nichols saying the exact same thing. Or you can read The Snowden Operation, by another long-time intelligence veteran, which makes the same case.

This, basically: https://www.amazon.com/Snowden-Operation-Greatest-Intelligence-Disaster-ebook/dp/B00I0W61OY

I haven't read this book, but basically, the assertion by many spooks/former spooks is that Snowden was a Russian operation from start to finish. Now, there's still an argument wrt whether or not Snowden was a knowing agent.

There's a book that makes the case that Snowden was likely tricked by the Russians into doing it. It's written by an editor of the Economist and is an interesting read, although I can't say I completely agree with some of his conclusions.

Read an interesting book that came to two conclusions about Snowden. A journalist that writes a lot about East-West espionage wrote a book that basically says either 1) Snowden acted as a spy willingly or 2) Snowden acted as spy unwittingly (to your point).

>I mean, aside from being very good friends with Boris Nemtsov, who Putin murdered...

1. Uh huh, so every friend of Boris Nemtsov is a political expert now?
   
   
2. Where is your source for saying Putin murdered Nemtsov? Nemtsov had been prominent in the disastrous 1990s, which saw the birth of the massive corruption for which he now blames Putin, but he had become very marginal. His Republican Party of Russia – the People's Freedom Party - shows no national representatives. One representative in a Regional Parliament and two more in another. Putin had little reason to be bothered by him, whose support was not very significant. You'd think if Putin wants to assassinate someone, he would have chosen a more significant person. Who may have had a larger interest in the killing are Russian right-wingers.
   
   >But fine, here's Schindler and Nichols saying the exact same thing. Or you can read The Snowden Operation, by another long-time intelligence veteran, which makes the same case.
   
   If the sole argument is that Russia has an interest in promoting or leaking stuff to Wikileaks and that makes them "useful idiots" as the author said, no one is doubting that there is a common interest there. But we've yet to see any evidence that it goes beyond that.