Even before his plane touched down at Sheremetyevo airport amid speculation that his next stop was Havana, Edward Snowden had taken on a new identity. In the days since his leaks about NSA intelligence gathering, the prevailing notion of Snowden had gone from civil-libertarian hero to egotist gadfly before settling, for the better part of a week, into an accepted media denominator: enigma. His flight to Moscow offered Snowden one more role in the rapidly expanding cast of characters: Cold War reenactor.
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