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| title: "House Oversight: Estate Documents (Nov 12) (HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019511)" |
| source: "House Oversight: Estate Documents (Nov 12)" |
| sourceUrl: "https://www.justice.gov/epstein" |
| date: "2026-01-01" |
| category: "House Oversight" |
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| Secret Agent | 23 |
| him to its information technology school for six months to train as |
| a communications officer, not a spy. After completing his training, |
| he was dispatched to the CIA station in Geneva. He worked there |
| for the next two years as one of dozens of information technologists |
| servicing the CIA's communication channels in Switzerland. He was |
| stationed there, according to Swiss registry records, under his own |
| name from March 2007 to February 2009. He was identified as a U.S |
| State Department employee in Geneva because Switzerland does |
| not allow any intelligence officers to operate in its country. Offi- |
| cially, he was attached to the permanent U.S. mission to the United |
| Nations, which employed hundreds of U.S. government functionar- |
| ies in Switzerland. It was a thin cover; the Swiss government was |
| aware that the CIA maintained its base in Geneva and posted its |
| employees at the U.S. mission. |
| Although Snowden would claim in a video he made in Hong |
| Kong that he had served as a "senior adviser for the Central Intelli- |
| gence Agency," he was merely a telecommunications support officer, |
| or TSO in CIA parlance, which was a junior-level job at the CIA. |
| He worked as part of a team of information technologists under the |
| supervision of senior CIA officers, according to a former CIA officer |
| in Geneva. The job of these TSOs was to protect the security of the |
| CIA's computer systems through which the CIA station in Geneva |
| sent and received its secret communications. |
| As far as is known, Snowden made very few friends at the eight- |
| hundred-person mission. The only person to have publicly reported |
| knowing him in Geneva during this period is Mavanee Anderson, a |
| young and attractive summer intern at the U.S. mission from May |
| to August 2007. She described befriending Snowden, who, according |
| to her, said that he was in the CIA and also demonstrated to her his |
| martial arts skills. She later recalled in interviews that he was "a bit" |
| prone to brooding and voiced growing dissatisfaction with the CIA |
| The job in Geneva did have its benefits, however. It provided him |
| with a generous housing and travel allowance. In many ways, it was |
| the "cushy government job" he had said he was seeking in his Inter- |
| net posts. He rented a four-room apartment and had his girlfriend, |
| Lindsay Mills, now twenty-one, join him there. |
| According to his posts on the Ars Technica website, he took full |
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