Ayn Rand doesn't come up in Snowden's must-read memoir, Permanent Record (as in, The Man has one on each of us), never once mentions Ayn Rand or Atlas Shrugged. I came across an interesting piece by Jeffrey A. Tucker at the Foundation for Economic Education I was asking myself. the same question that Tucker takes a shot at here: Was I hallucinating or did Oliver Stone, in his biopic of Ed Snowden, Snowden, depict him as Ayn Randian (you know, I object). So, yeah, maybe Ed was into Rand.