The exposure of the American special services Snowden intends to ask for political asylum in Iceland

Iceland’s authorities received an unofficial request from the intermediary of Edward Snowden , who declassified information about the computer surveillance of the US intelligence services for citizens, to provide political asylum, Reuters reports.

The representative of the WikiLeaks political exposure site Christinn Khrafnsson wrote in the Icelandic newspaper Frettabladid that he was handed over to Snowden on June 12, in which he asked him to notify Iceland’s authorities, that he would soon appeal to them with a request to provide a political asylum.

The country's government confirmed that Khfnsson turned to two ministries on this issue, but they did not say anything about whether they intend to meet the former CIA employee. At the same time, they emphasized that the appeals of Khratnsson were unofficial.

Iceland has a reputation as a state that supports the Internet, however, according to Snowden, he did not go there right away, because he feared that Washington would put pressure on the country with a population of only 320 thousand people.

Earlier on Tuesday, the head of the Ecuador Foreign Ministry Ricardo Patinho said his country is ready to consider Snowden's request to provide asylum, RIA Novosti notes. A year ago, Ecuador provided a refuge at his embassy in London to the founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assangeus .

Former technical specialist of the CIA and until recently, an employee of the consulting company Edward Snowden in early June told reporters that the NSA and the FBI have for several years now have direct access to servers of companies such as Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, Skype, Youtube, Paltalk, Aol, Apple. According to secret information disclosed by him, they collect audio and video files, photographs, electronic correspondence, documents and data on users' connection to certain sites, which allows special services "to monitor the movements and contacts of various people".

Currently, Snowden is in Hong Kong, "until he is expelled." Here he is going to judge in court to dispute the possible attempt of the United States to seek his extradition.