Spy secret leaker disappears out of sight

The former CIA agent who revealed himself as the source of top-secret leaks about US surveillance programmes has dropped out of public sight.

Two days after he checked out of a Hong Kong hotel where he said that he had “no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong,” Edward Snowden was nowhere to be found, despite being the central figure in the one of the biggest news stories in the world.