Snowden in NBC interview: I was a trained spy, not just a hacker

By: American Decency Staff

Edward Snowden says he's more than just a hacker or systems administrator, as the Obama administration and media have portrayed him.

He worked undercover for the CIA and the National Security Agency.

"I was trained as a spy in sort of the traditional sense of the word, in that I lived and worked undercover overseas — pretending to work in a job that I'm not — and even being assigned a name that was not mine," the master secrets spiller tells NBC News in his first interview with a U.S. TV network.

Portions of the interview, conducted by Brian Williams in Moscow last week, appeared Tuesday night. An extended version will air Wednesday at 10 p.m. ET.

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