intelligence community, including the National Reconnaissance Office, the NRO National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research the Pentagon’s DIA, Defense Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency, the NSA. Many of the documents are based on information gathered by some of the most secret wings of the U.S. One leaked Pentagon memo alleges that the Mossad, Israel’s spy agency, had encouraged Israelis to take part in the massive protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to gut the Israeli judiciary. The leak of the documents has also revealed how the United States spied on its own allies. ally, secretly planned to produce 40,000 rockets for Russia. Documents also show that Egypt, a close U.S. The Washington Post reports one leaked document reveals the Wagner Group sought to purchase arms from Turkey, a NATO ally. intelligence agencies had deeply penetrated the Russian military, giving the Biden administration internal information about Russian war plans in Ukraine, as well as operational plans for the private mercenary group Wagner in Africa. The documents also appear to indicate U.S.

One document from February predicted that Ukraine’s, quote, “ability to provide medium-range air defense to protect the will be completely reduced by May 23.” The leaked documents also predicted the fighting between Ukraine and Russia in the Donbas region, quote, “is likely heading toward a stalemate.” Another document indicates members of Ukraine’s Security Services were responsible for sabotaging a Russian plane inside Belarus in late February. Concerning the war in Ukraine, the leaked documents suggest Ukraine has little chance of militarily defeating Russia. And is that a matter of concern to us? You’re darn right it is.ĪMY GOODMAN: While the documents appear to be real, U.S. But the truth and the honest answer to your question is we don’t know. So we’re watching this and monitoring it as best we can. JOHN KIRBY: We don’t know who’s responsible for this, and we don’t know if they have more that they intend to post. National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby spoke Monday. It appears the Pentagon wasn’t aware of the leak until last week. Many appear to be photographs of slides prepared for a briefing. Over the past month or more, the leaked documents have been appearing online on the chat service Discord and on the messaging app Telegram. spying on its adversaries, but spying on its allies, like Israel, like South Korea, like Ukraine. The Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into a recent leak of highly classified Pentagon intelligence documents about the war in Ukraine, as well as Russian and U.S.

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