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| ® | 240 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS In fact, he advertised that he had such secrets in his interview with the South China Morning Post. Whatever he might have assumed about the inability of the CIA to stop him in Hong Kong, he could not assume that Chinese intelligence services would relegate them- selves to a purely passive role when secret NSA documents were in a hotel room in Hong Kong. Snowden might have esteemed himself to be an independent actor playing Prometheus on a global stage provided by YouTube, but the Chinese might have viewed him very differently indeed. @ © | | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_r1.indd 240 © 9/30/16 13 aM | | HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019728