US surveillance leak source revealed

UA former CIA technical worker has been identified by the UK's Guardian newspaper as the source of leaks about US surveillance programmes.



Twenty-year-old Edward Snowden, is described by the newspaper as an ex-CIA technical assistant, currently employed by defence contractor Booz Allen Hamilton.



The Guardian said Snowdon's identity was being revealed at his request.



It was recently disclosed that US agencies gathered millions of phone records and monitored internet data.



A spokesman for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said the matter had now been referred to the Department of Justice as a criminal matter.



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