He didn't have the space for it, but Gavin MacFadyen needed more bodies. The American running a British think tank for investigative journalism had eight employees crammed into a 4.5-by-3.5-meter office in east-central London, trying to crack a story on wrongdoing at a multinational company.
Then Sarah Harrison walked through his door.
Within a few years, Harrison would become the intense, 31-year-old emissary of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the mystery woman sent to spirit former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden from Hong Kong to Moscow, where she is now aiding his quest to evade American authorities.