NEW YORK (AP) – Suddenly, in the middle of the New York night, Edward Snowden’s face appeared – deep in a public park.
A 4-foot-high, 100-pound sculpted bust of the whistleblower now exiled in Russia was sneaked into Brooklyn’s Fort Greene Park on Monday before dawn.
Animal New York, a city news website that first reported the incident, said the mysterious perpetrators were a small group of artists – admirers of the former contractor who had leaked classified information from the National Security Agency to the media.
The activists hoisted the bust to the top of a Revolutionary War memorial, adding his name to a column, according to Animal New York.
The website says the group allowed it to document installation of the statue on the condition that it not reveal the identities of the artists.