Event Details

November 01, 2012

Description

Snowden invited Runa Sandvik to co-host his crypto party.

Participants (2)

Name Type Mentions
Runa Sandvik person 37 View Entity
Edward Snowden person 1249 View Entity

Source Documents (1)

HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020230.jpg

Congressional Oversight Record / Narrative Report Excerpt
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This document page, stamped with a House Oversight footer, details the formation of the Freedom of the Press Foundation in 2012 to fund WikiLeaks and Bradley Manning amidst financial blockades. It narrates the prelude to the Snowden leaks, describing Edward Snowden's admiration for journalist Glenn Greenwald's anti-surveillance writings and Snowden's initial attempts (under the alias Cincinnatus) to contact Greenwald and urge him to use email encryption. It highlights specific blog posts from November 2012 where Greenwald criticized the US surveillance state.

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Event Metadata

Type
Unknown
Location
N/A
Significance Score
5/10
Participants
2
Source Documents
1
Extracted
2025-11-19 17:45

Additional Data

Source
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020230.jpg
Date String
November 2012

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