Edward Snowden Wife: Who is Lindsay Mills?

Lindsay Mills is an American acrobat and blogger. She came to international attention as the partner of former NSA analyst Edward Snowden in 2013 at the time of the global surveillance disclosures. Mills left the United States to join Snowden in exile in Moscow by October 2014. They married in 2017.

Mills’ father Jonathan Mills lives in Laurel, Maryland. She studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art and would later become a dancer and acrobat. Mills and Edward Snowden lived together in Baltimore, Japan, and Hawaii. They have been together at least since 2009.

Mills kept a blog in which she posted pictures of herself posing and performing. On May 20, 2013, Snowden left Hawaii for Hong Kong and told her that he was going on a business trip.

On June 6, 2013, agents from the National Security Agency searched Mills’ home seeking Snowden. On June 9, 2013, The Guardian published a story revealing that Snowden had done the global surveillance disclosures. On June 10, 2013, Mills wrote on her website, “I’ll be refraining from blog posts for awhile” then deleted all posts within a day.

For Halloween 2015, Mills posted pictures of herself with Snowden in Halloween costumes as Carmen Sandiego and Waldo of Where’s Waldo? Both popular fictional characters are known for hiding. In the photo, Mills and Snowden are posing in front of the J. Edgar Hoover Building but presumably, this is photo manipulation because they supposedly remain in Russia.

Permanent Record, Snowden’s 2019 book, features Mills’ writings from her diary as part of the narrative of the surveillance disclosures.

In 2020, it was announced that Mills was pregnant and that she and Snowden intended to apply for Russian citizenship without renouncing their U.S. citizenship. Their son was born in December 2020. In 2020, Russia granted Snowden permanent residency rights, and on September 26, 2022, President Vladimir Putin signed a decree granting him Russian citizenship.