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Edward Snowden is underground, mobile, and missing. But the former government contractor who leaked National Security Agency documents that turned the world's digital privacy expectations upside-down appears to be keeping up with his plan to seek asylum in Iceland, with an assist from Wikileaks, of course. And the Icelandic government tells The Atlantic Wire that won't be easy.

Reuters reports Snowden contacted the Icelandic government about seeking asylum there through an intermediary last Wednesday, three days after he outed himself, and two days after word spread that he might be looking to head to the Nordic sanctuary from the Far East. He originally told The Guardian's Glenn Greenwald that Iceland was his safe-haven plan all along, despite initially travelling to Hong Kong instead. He's been holed up in China ever since arriving at the end of May, changing hotels, speaking with local newspapers as recently as the same day he made his request to Iceland, and possibly leaving the country since then. We don't know where Snowden is right now — his Guardian chat yesterday didn't provide any answers — but he's clearly been thinking about his next move as even President Obama said last night on Charlie Rose that there's an ongoing investigation into "Mr. Snowden." Turns out, Mr. Snowden got WikiLeaks spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson to contact the Icelandic government about housing him:

In a column in Icelandic daily Frettabladid, WikiLeaks spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson wrote that a middleman had approached him on behalf of Snowden. "On 12 June, I received a message from Edward Snowden where he asked me to notify the Icelandic government that he wanted to seek asylum in Iceland," Hrafnsson, who is also an investigative journalist in Iceland, told Reuters.

It's unclear whether Iceland will welcome the whistleblower or not. But his time in Hong Kong is running short, if he is indeed still there. Americans have 90 days to get a visa extension or claim asylum in Hong Kong or risk deportation. Which, given the situation, is exactly what he's trying to avoid. If Snowden arrived on May 20 as he claims, he's already been there for 29 days. He's got 61 days left. Seems like a good time to start making the requisite calls.