Lindsay Mills girlfriend of John Snowden: Woman who NSA leaker left behind was member of acrobat troupe

The girlfriend of NSA whistle blower Edward Snowden has been revealed to be a 28-year-old former ballet dancer who performs in an acrobatic troupe in Hawaii.

Snowden left Lindsay Mills behind in Hawaii weeks ago when he leaked classified information about PRISM, a secret govement phone surveillance program that harvests data on millions of Americans from telecommunications and online companies.

He never told Miss Mills where he was going or what he was doing - only that he needed to leave for a few weeks. He is currently on the run, location unknown, after he fled the Hong Kong hotel where he holed up after the leak.

This is picture of Lindsay Mills, the ballet dancer girlfriend who Edward Snowden left behind when he leaked classified information about a secret NSA surveillance program to the press

Keeping a secret: Snowden says he never told his girlfriend about his life-altering plans, saying he left weeks ago saying only that he had to travel for business

The TV news program Inside Edition claims to have tracked Lindsay Mills down in Hawaii, where she is the member of an acrobatic troupe.

It appears that she was performing with the Waikiki Acrobatic Troupe. She also took classes last year from another troupe, Samadhi Hawaii, though never performed with the company.

She lives in the home that Snowden, a private contractor making $200,000 working with the National Security Agency, rented in Hawaii.

She graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art and is a former ballet dancer.

When Snowden revealed his identity in the Guardian newspaper on Sunday, he also revealed that his girlfriend knew nothing of his plans to make the biggest leak of classified govement information since WikiLeaks.

Stunning ballerina Lindsay Mills, 28, took to her blog on Monday to detail her heartbreak over being suddenly left by 29-year-old Ed Snowden

Snowden told the newspaper that Miss Mills was not surprised that he was packing his backs and not telling her where he was going.

'That is not an uncommon occurrence for someone who has spent the last decade working in the intelligence world,' he explained to the Guardian.

Performer: Lindsay Mills performs in the Waikiki Acrobatic Troupe and in dance shows in Hawaii

He said Miss Mills has been visited twice since his disappearance by NSA federal agents and by local police, though he suspects it was because he didn't show up for work.

Snowden said he was willing to sacrifice his relationship with his family - and possibly never see them again - because he believed leaking the information about the PRISM program was so important.

'The only thing I fear is the harmful effects on my family, who I won't be able to help any more. That's what keeps me up at night,' he told the Guardian.

Federal agents this afteoon visited the Pennsylvania home of Edward Snowden's father and stepmother, just hours after the 29-year-old NSA whistleblower checked out of his plush Hong Kong hotel and went on the run from U.S. and Chinese authorities.

Two men, identifying themselves as FBI agents, dropped in on Lonnie Snowden, 52, and his wife Karen Snowden, 48, at their property in Upper Macungie Township, as the couple were still 'digesting and processing' the news about their son.

Mrs Snowden said on Sunday night that they had been 'bombarded' by media since Edward Snowden revealed himself to have leaked top-secret documents detailing the govement's extensive surveillance programs.

The woman refused to give any details about her stepson, other than what he'd already offered up in interviews, but she told Leigh Valley's The Moing Call the family would be making a public statement in the coming days.

According to mcall.com, shortly after Mrs Snowden shut the door, the two men approached the house, telling a photographer they were agents with the Allentown FBI office.