On June 14, 2015, the London
Sunday Times reported that Russian and Chinese intelligence services had decrypted more than 1 million classified files in the Snowden cache, forcing the UK's
MI6 intelligence agency to move agents out of live operations in hostile countries. Sir
David Omand, a former director of the UK's
GCHQ intelligence gathering agency, described it as a huge strategic setback that was harming Britain, America, and their NATO allies.
The Sunday Times said it was not clear whether Russia and China stole Snowden's data or whether Snowden voluntarily handed it over to remain at liberty in Hong Kong and Moscow.
[113][114] In April 2015, the
Henry Jackson Society, a British
neoconservative think tank, published a report claiming that Snowden's intelligence leaks negatively impacted Britain's ability to fight terrorism and organized crime.
[115] Gus Hosein, executive director of
Privacy International, criticized the report for, in his opinion, presuming that the public became concerned about privacy only after Snowden's disclosures.
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