biography) about it? Take

The movie "Primary Colors" was about a southern politician who ran successfully for President of the U.S, in the 1990s. As far as I know, there is only one person in the world who fits that bill (pun intended). But they used the name "Jack Stanton" instead the name of the real politician. And they changed his election year from 1996 to 1998 to create a fictitious "parallel universe."
That's the standard method of avoiding lawsuits with regard to a public figure. Even if you were really basically describing "Snowden," you might want to change his name to something like "Sonnenschein" so that you wouldn't have to worry about what's fact and what's not.For public figures, changing the name provides enough "deniability."

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