By James Nye PUBLISHED: 23:54 EST, 25 June 2013 | UPDATED: 02:15 EST, 26 June 2013 The Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald speaks to reporters at his hotel in Hong Kong - the journalist has claimed that Edward Snowden has handed out thousands of secure documents stolen from the NSA that will be unleashed should anything happen to him Edward Snowden, the United States' most notorious and wanted leaker of national security secrets has given encoded files containing whole swathes of undisclosed information to several people should something happen to him. Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian journalist who was contacted by the former NSA systems administrator in February said that the paranoid Snowden 'has taken extreme precautions to make sure many different people around the world have these archives to insure the stories will inevitably be published.'
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American journalist who first reported Edward Snowden's NSA revelations says that the whistleblower has shared copies of all the secrets he stole
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Glen Greenwald says that if anything happens to Edward Snowden then these files will be released
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Edward Snowden is currently in Russia - as confirmed by President Vladimir Putin
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White House spokesman Jay Carney said diplomats and Justice Department officials are engaged in discussions with Russia
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