Title: The Virtual Interview: Edward Snowden
Speaker: Edward Snowden; interviewer Jane Mayer
Publisher: The New Yorker
Video release date: October 11, 2014
URL: https://www.newyorker.com/video/watch/the-new-yorker-festival-the-virtual-interview-edward-snowden
Retrieved: October 8, 2026
Format: Short attributed transcript extract, not a complete transcript or video copy.

Locator: Discussion following Mayer's question about Moscow as a way station. Publisher transcript line breaks are joined below; no video timecode is supplied.

Edward Snowden:
"after I departed Hong Kong the state department froze my passport"

Context: Snowden says he intended onward travel to Latin America. Later in the same exchange, he compares the CIA's reach there with Russia's stronger security services and questions why U.S. action left him harder to capture.