Edward Snowden Net Worth is estimated to be over $2 Million dollars. Snowden is an American former computer intelligence consultant who leaked highly classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA) in 2013, when he was an employee and subcontractor. The United States Department of Justice unsealed charges against Snowden of two counts of violating the Espionage Act of 1917 and theft of government property.

Edward Snowden Net Worth

Edward Snowden Net Worth is around $2 Million dollars.

Edward Snowden’s Salary

After attending a 2006 job-fair focused on intelligence agencies, Snowden accepted an offer for a position at the CIA. During his employment with CIA and NSA, Edward Snowden was earning $150,000 salary each year. In addition to this salary, Edward Snowden was also paid $10,000 in bonus.

Edward Snowden’s Cars

Edward Snowden owns two cars, a GM and a Toyota. Snowden bought a Saab during his days with NSA for $27,000. Snowden bought a Toyota Camry way back in 2011 for $35,000.

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Edward Snowden’s Family

Edward Joseph Snowden was born on June 21, 1983, in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Snowden’s maternal grandfather, Edward J. Barrett, a rear admiral in the U.S. Coast Guard, became a senior official with the FBI and was at the Pentagon in 2001 during the September 11 attacks.

Snowden’s father, Lonnie, was a warrant officer in the Coast Guard, and his mother, Elizabeth, is a clerk at the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. His older sister, Jessica, was a lawyer at the Federal Judicial Center in Washington, D.C. Edward Snowden said that he had expected to work for the federal government, as had the rest of his family.

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Edward Snowden & CIA

In March 2007, the CIA stationed Snowden with diplomatic cover in Geneva, Switzerland, where he was responsible for maintaining computer-network security. Snowden described his CIA experience in Geneva as formative, stating that the CIA deliberately got a Swiss banker drunk and encouraged him to drive home. Snowden said that when the latter was arrested for drunk driving, a CIA operative offered to help in exchange for the banker becoming an informant.

Edward Snowden with NSA

Snowden’s decision to leak NSA documents developed gradually following his March 2007 posting as a technician to the Geneva CIA station. Snowden later made contact with Glenn Greenwald, a journalist working at The Guardian.

Snowden flew to Hong Kong, where he was staying when the initial articles based on the leaked documents were published. Within months, documents had been obtained and published by media outlets worldwide, most notably The Guardian (Britain), Der Spiegel (Germany).

Edward Snowden’s Asylum

Snowden applied for political asylum to 21 countries. Ecuador had initially offered Snowden a temporary travel document but later withdrew it. After evaluating the law and Snowden’s situation, the French interior ministry rejected his request for asylum.

On June 23, 2013, Snowden landed at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport aboard a commercial Aeroflot flight from Hong Kong. After 39 days in the transit section, he left the airport on August 1 and was granted temporary asylum in Russia for one year by the Federal Migration Service.

In November 2020, Snowden announced that he and his wife, Lindsay, who was expecting their son in late December, were applying for dual U.S.-Russian citizenship.

In 2013, Donald Trump made a series of tweets in which he referred to Snowden as a “traitor”, saying he gave “serious information to China and Russia” and “should be executed”. Later that year he added a caveat, tweeting “if it and he could reveal Obama’s [birth] records, I might become a major fan”.