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Extraction Summary

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Events
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Document Information

Type: Book excerpt / house oversight committee production
File Size: 472 KB
Summary

This document appears to be page 88 from the book 'How America Lost Its Secrets' (likely by Edward Jay Epstein, indicated by the filename prefix 'Epst'), produced as part of a House Oversight Committee investigation. The text describes an individual (contextually Edward Snowden) moving to the Mira hotel in Hong Kong with documents on a thumb drive to meet journalists, and emailing his location to 'Poitras' (Laura Poitras). The page includes a production timestamp of 9/29/16.

People (3)

Name Role Context
Unnamed Male Subject Subject of narrative
Referred to as 'he'; contextually implies Edward Snowden based on the mention of the Mira hotel, Hong Kong, thumb dri...
Poitras Journalist/Recipient
Received an email from the subject with his name and address.
Journalists/Reporters Media
The group the subject was preparing to meet.

Organizations (2)

Name Type Context
Mira hotel
Hotel in Kowloon district of Hong Kong where the subject checked in.
House Oversight Committee
Implied by the Bates stamp 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT'.

Timeline (2 events)

Unspecified (Narrative past)
Subject moved from a residence to the Mira hotel.
Hong Kong
Unspecified (Narrative past)
Subject checked into the Mira hotel under his own name.
Mira hotel, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Locations (1)

Location Context
Venue chosen for meeting reporters.

Relationships (1)

Unnamed Male Subject Professional/Source-Journalist Poitras
He e-mailed Poitras his name and the address of the hotel

Key Quotes (1)

"there was no longer any reason to hide his true identity."
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Full Extracted Text

Complete text extracted from the document (566 characters)

88 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS
finished his preparations for the journalists. With selected documents copied on a thumb drive, he moved from the residence where he had been staying for ten days to a venue for meeting the reporters. The place he chose, as noted earlier, was the Mira hotel in the Kowloon district of Hong Kong, where he checked in under his own name. He e-mailed Poitras his name and the address of the hotel; there was no longer any reason to hide his true identity.
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