‘Snowden worked with US Embassy in India’

However, Foreign Policy magazine, quoting unnamed sources, said Snowden “was in the country in his capacity as an NSA contractor to assist as a technical expert at the US embassy in New Delhi”.

In the article on Snowden, the magazine said it is not clear what Snowden was working on at the embassy but says that it is “conceivable that Snowden could have been working on surveillance equipment in New Delhi”.

Among the thousands of documents that Snowden has revealed, there are some that suggest that the NSA spied on the Indian Permanent Mission to the UN, besides the Indian embassy in Washington. Snowden is in Russia at present even as the US has been trying to get him back to be tried for espionage.

As reported, Snowden trained at Koenig Solutions in West Delhi’s Moti Nagar area. He came to Delhi in 2010 for a superfast crash course on EC Council Certified Security Analyst and a course in Core Java.

The hacking expert wrote to the institution in 2009, seeking admission and introduced himself as a Japanese national working with the NSA. After that, he did a course at the institute from September 3 to September 9, 2010. The US embassy said it would not comment on the report when reached by The Indian Express.