People who claim to have been inside USINT have been vocal about Snowden being an "op". See eg https://www.google.com/amp/s/20committee.com/2016/07/02/the-krem

People who claim to have been inside USINT have been vocal about Snowden being an "op". See eg https://www.google.com/amp/s/20committee.com/2016/07/02/the-kremlin-admits-snowden-is-a-russian-agent/amp/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/20committee.com/2016/07/02/the-... Grains of salt with all of this of course. Even if you trust people like Schindler what they mean by "agent" and "op" is going to have significant nuance. Web of trust, shared semantics, and personal priors especially hard to reason about here, IMV.