Quite possibly, but it seems Russia co-operated towards that end.
Hey, I cracked up on this:
"While the state-controlled Russian airline Aeroflot said that he had checked in for flight SU150 to Havana with two seats (17A and 17C) in his name on Monday, seemingly half the world’s press corps was on board, but Snowden was conspicuously absent. " http://rt.com/news/snowden-asylum-nsa-pursuit-168/
Would have been a couple of "spooks" on the flight as well, lol. Aeroflot made some money out of that, as well as some Havana hotels.. :-)
