A controversial bronze statute of intelligence leaker Edward Snowden was secretly erected over night in a New York city park.<br /><br /> Artists put a statue of Snowden over a tomb containing thousands of Revolutionary War dead: http://t.co/K1RGNfRilj pic.twitter.com/27VDRjd8Ea— Business Insider (@businessinsider) April 6, 2015<br /><br /> A group of anonymous guerilla artists who sympathise with the former National Security employee were responsible. <br /><br /> They put it up on top of an existing stone pillar that is part of a monument in Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn<br /><br /> A video of the event was released by ANIMALNEWYOK.COM a local news and culture blog who were invited to witness the installation. <br /><br /> By midday park officials had covered it up prior to it being removed. <br /><br /> Edward Snowden who leaked details of massive US intelligence-gathering programmes, remains in hiding in Russia.
