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Press TV has conducted an interview with Wayne Madsen, former NSA officer, about the statement made by the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden saying that US government agencies want to assassinate him.

- I’d like to get your thoughts on these recent comments made by Edward Snowden. And in addition to that, should these assassination threats be taken seriously?

- They should absolutely be taken seriously.

In early December 2013 I reported on Russia’s Channel One news network that Snowden was the target of a possible kidnapping attempt back then by MI6 officers - British intelligence officers with the British embassy in Moscow.

And this included the head of MI6 at the embassy Mr. Dennis Keith (Deputy Chief of Mission) who is widely known in Russia as not only a provocateur amongst the Russian opposition to President Vladimir Putin, but also somebody who has had a long history with MI6.

This particular individual (Dennis Keith) was in charge of an operation to hire an American former NSA employee who also lives in Moscow and works in Moscow to try to entrap Edward Snowden in a trap.

So we have two former NSA people: Ed Snowden and another American who obviously being used as a lure, a honey trap, to try to ensnare Ed Snowden. So I reported that. The operation was obviously called off, it was a failure.

And now what will they do now? America is going to try to maybe kill Snowden. They couldn’t kidnap him and bring him back to the United States either directly or through the United Kingdom. And now they’ve gone to the other scenario where they’d like to just put him out, make him go away by assassinating him.

Snowden’s revelations are no surprise to me because I caught on to the plan early on to try to rendition him out of Russia.

- What is to become of Edward Snowden? How do you see this whole Snowden saga coming to an end?

- He’s been granted now permanent political asylum in Russia. I feel that Russia is the safest country for him right now.

Anywhere else he goes especially if he were to be given asylum in a country like Bolivia or Brazil or Ecuador, these countries are totally in the US-controlled western hemisphere. And although they are independent countries they are subjected to a lot of CIA and US government intrigue with all kinds of military, Special Forces, CIA, defense intelligence agencies.

I think he’d be very unsafe in those countries, but I think the Russian government is more than able to provide security for him.

I know one of the things as a result of my revelations about the attempt to kidnap Snowden in December was that his security was increased according to a high ranking official of the Federal Security Bureau of Russia.