A Look Back: CIA Sent Secret ‘Rendition’ Plane to Snatch Edward Snowden

Herbert Dyer, Jr.
5 min readDec 22, 2019
This is one of the CIA’s secret ‘Extraordinary Rendition’ planes. Image Credit: https://images.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=CIA+Plane+to+render+Snowden+pictures&fr=yhs-ddc-linuxmint&hspart=ddc&hsimp=yhs-linuxmint&imgurl=http%3A%2F

Originally published June, 2014

On June 23, 2013, Edward Snowden landed in Moscow from Hong Kong. As per the Register, he planned to fly to Cuba, and then ultimately to Latin America. But the State Department promptly canceled his passport.

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Herbert Dyer, Jr.

Freelancer since the earth first began cooling. My beat, justice: racial, social, political, economic and cultural. I’m on FB, Twitter, Link, hdyerjr@gmail.com.