Asked if his decision to take the job had been a calculated move designed to give him access to secret information, Mr Snowden reportedly replied: "Correct on Booz." Snowden, whose exact location was unknown on Tuesday morning, flew out of Hong Kong on Sunday and has reportedly requested asylum in Ecuador. He had been expected to fly from Russia to Cuba on Monday afternoon but as the Aeroflot plane prepared to take off from Moscow's international airport journalists who had boarded the flight found his seat empty.