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| ® | Off to Moscow | 257 they aggressively questioned all the restaurant employees, security guards, and airport personnel they could find. They also bought business-class tickets on flights just to gain access to VIP lounges in the transit zones. Despite this intensive search, none of them found a single person who had seen Snowden, although his image was con- stantly shown on airport TV screens. Egor Piskunov, a reporter for RT television, even rented a room in the V-Express Capsule Hotel and “tipped” hotel employees, trying, without success, to get infor- mation. Piskunov told me, “It was a total vanishing act.” @ © | | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_r1.indd 257 © 9/30/16 13 aM | | HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019745