Daily Beast - Snowden Lied About China Contacts

While I don't find the Daily Beast particularly reliable I have to say that the allegations in this article wouldn't surprise me.  Mainly because I suspected Chinese involvement way back when this story first broke and because some of the information being released is so over the top I have repeatedly suspected a foreign disinformation campaign on numerous occasions.

Ok that's enough - to the article:

Snowden, according to one of my sources in Hong Kong, had at least one “high-level contact” with Chinese officials there. Those officials suggested he give an interview to the South China Morning Post, the most prominent English-language newspaper in Hong Kong. This is significant because, as the Post noted, Snowden turned over to the paper documents that contained detailed technical information on the NSA’s methods. Included in these documents were Hong Kong and Chinese IP addresses that the NSA was surveilling. The disclosure of those addresses was not whistle-blowing; that was aiding China.
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Some in the American intelligence community suspect Snowden was really a “drop box,” receiving information from NSA personnel working for China. In other words, he was used as a courier.
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One of my sources indicates that Chinese intelligence, either directly or through FBI personnel working for China, tipped Snowden off that NSA investigators were closing in on him.

All suspicions I have had, but unfortunately proof is lacking and there is enough evidence backing Snowden's allegations that even if this were a giant disinformation campaign launched by the Chinese it's troo late to counter it.