Admitted NSA documents leaker Edward Snowden is believed to have fewer than six countries still considering his campaign for asylum, among them Cuba and Zimbabwe.
With Russia and China all but closing their doors, WND has learned that Snowden apparently is now concentrating his efforts on Cuba, Venezuela and Zimbabwe.
The Venezuela effort appears to have stumbled when newly elected president Nicolas Maduro, who was visiting Moscow on unrelated issues, and was transiting through the same airport where Snowden is believed to be hiding, left without him.
WND has learned that the Obama administration was prepared to exert financial pressure on CITGO, a U.S. energy refiner and marketer owned by Venezuela, if Caracas gave Snowden sanctuary.
Diplomatic sources at the United Nations in New York believe the options open for Snowden are rapidly dwindling.
The most likely “safe havens” at this point would appear to Cuba and Zimbabwe, sources said.
Cuba’s U.N. mission has refused official comment, but the Castro government has a long record of accepting U.S. fugitives.
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