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This document, appearing to be an excerpt from a narrative report or book within a House Oversight file, details a meeting between the author and director Oliver Stone. They discuss Stone's exclusivity deal with Snowden's lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena (an FSB board member), which blocked a competing Sony project. The author, seeking to interview Snowden, learns that Snowden is aware of their book project and subsequently hires Moscow 'fixer' Zamir Gotta to facilitate a meeting.

This document is a page from a book (Chapter 24) detailing a dinner between the narrator and director Oliver Stone in New York. The conversation focuses on Stone's film about Edward Snowden, specifically probing the financial arrangements Stone made to gain access to Snowden in Moscow, including a $1 million payment to Snowden's lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, for 'total access' disguised as book rights. The text also mentions the Sony Pictures hack and payments made to The Guardian.

This document excerpt details an interview with Kucherena, Edward Snowden's Russian lawyer, regarding Snowden's dossier, potential possession of CIA files, and the fictionalized account in Kucherena's novel. The conversation also covers the logistics of interviewing Snowden, involving his American lawyer Ben Wizner, and concludes with Kucherena soliciting a financial contribution for Snowden's legal defense fund.