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German Politician Meets With Snowden

By THE NEW YORK TIMES

Published: October 31, 2013

BERLIN — Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor, met
for almost three hours in Moscow on Thursday with Hans-Christian Ströbele, the
longest serving member of the parliamentary committee that oversees German
intelligence.

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Mr. Ströbele and Georg Mascolo, a German investigative journalist, told German
television they found Mr. Snowden in good spirits and very aware of the effect
of his disclosures about the depth and breadth of the United States’ spying on
foes and allies.

Mr. Ströbele and Mr. Mascolo went to Moscow to explore whether Mr. Snowden
could or would testify before a planned parliamentary inquiry into what is
referred to here as the N.S.A. affair, the agency’s monitoring of Chancellor
Angela Merkel’s cellphone calls.

Any arrangements for Mr. Snowden to testify would require intricate legal
maneuvering. It seemed unlikely that he would travel to Germany from Moscow,
where he has lived since Russia granted him temporary asylum July 31, for fear
of extradition to the United States.

Since the N.S.A. spying became public, Germans have voiced growing anger toward
the United States, Berlin’s most important ally.

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A version of this article appears in print on November 1, 2013, on page A10 of
the New York edition with the headline: A Politician From Germany Meets
Snowden.

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