My own research is indicating the following - and it has not yet been verified so please don't spread it as if it WERE verified.
Wikileaks, Julian Assange, and Edward Snowden never existed. All were creations of NSA, MI, or both, and were part of the earliest shots fired against the Deep State.
Doesn't it seem odd that a) Snowden could evade being killed for so long with the best in the world out to kill him, while still maintaining a regular presence on (of all places) Twitter?
Doesn't it seem even more odd that some rinky dink unknown group like Wikileaks - not even located in the U.S., but in Sweden - would be given the information they were given? Who would do that? "Hey dudes, we're gonna leak the entire CIA arsenal of surveillance software … give it to the world … let's go to this little no-name group over in Sweden!" Maybe it wouldn't exactly happen that way.