A WikiLeaks employee spoke about the FSB's attempt to recruit Snowden

WikiLeaks employee Sarah Harrison said that in 2013 the FSB tried to recruit Edward Snowden when he was in the transit zone of Sheremetyevo Airport. According to Harrison, the Russian intelligence service once offered Snowden cooperation, but he refused. The FSB does not comment on this information.

At the time, Snowden could not enter Russia or fly anywhere else because his passport had been revoked by US authorities seeking his arrest for leaking classified documents.

The New York Times

• Edward Snowden, a former employee of the CIA and the US National Security Agency, in June 2013 gave The Guardian and The Washington Post journalists classified materials regarding the surveillance program of American intelligence agencies around the world. The American authorities put Snowden on the wanted list on charges of espionage. He crossed through Hong Kong to Russia, where he spent about a month in the Sheremetyevo transit zone, after which he received temporary asylum in the Russian Federation.
• Suspicions were expressed in the United States that Snowden had collaborated with the FSB prior to his flight to Russia. Such assumptions, in particular, were made by the heads of the intelligence committees of the House of Representatives and the Senate. No evidence of such a version was presented. The FBI, following an investigation, concluded that Snowden acted alone.
• Snowden himself called the assumptions that he was connected with the Russian special services absurd.