Employees of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested 21-year-old American Jack Douglas Teixeira. He is suspected of releasing classified Pentagon data. This was confirmed by the Attorney General – United States Attorney General Merrick Garland.
“Today, the U.S. Department of Justice arrested Jack Douglas Teixeira in connection with an investigation into the unauthorized extraction, storage, and distribution of classified national defense information,” he said, adding that the arrest took place “without incident.”
With data Law enforcement found Teixeira at her home in North Daytona, TASS said.
The young man is serving in the National Guard Air Force. We’re talking about the state of Massachusetts, where he’s going to appear in district court, as the media reported. CNN noted that the detainee entered service in 2019 and worked in the field of communications. TASS writes that the FBI is continuing investigative activities in the home of the arrested person.
“This investigation is ongoing. We’ll provide more information when the time comes,” Garland said.
With data CNN, the prisoner will appear in court on April 14.
New York Times claimsthat the detained soldier led an online group where classified documents from the US Department of Defense went online.
This Thug Shaker Central group on the Discord platform has between 20 and 30 users. Law enforcement has yet to identify himself or anyone else as a suspect in this case, according to the publication.
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The documents hit the internet in late February or early March. At the same time, the “stream” did not go unnoticed until the American media drew attention to the classified documents. It has been claimed that more than 100 documents may have been made public. The damage caused by the incident is considered significant.
The documents contain information about the surveillance of high-ranking officials from the allied countries by the American intelligence agencies, the plans of the Ukrainian authorities and the state of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, as well as Moscow’s alleged intentions as part of a special operation. Ukraine
According to media reports, the documents contain data on tests carried out in February of China’s latest DF-27 ballistic missile with a hypersonic drift warhead. It was possible to distribute it to 10.5 thousand km / h.
US military intelligence believes the DF-27 will have a “high probability” of penetrating US missile defense systems, with a “limited number” of deployments to begin as early as 2022.
“Preliminary analysis shows that the hypersonic glider flew for 12 minutes and covered a distance of 2.1 thousand km,” the US media said, citing the document classified as “top secret”.
The White House declined to comment on the authenticity of the published documents. The administration of US President Joe Biden noted that they are not yet ready to voice their version of who and how “leaked” the intelligence materials. RIA Novosti noted that the head of state is not worried about the publication of confidential data, but the truth of what happened.
The Pentagon concluded that the leak was a “deliberate crime”. The location of the episode was announced on April 13 by Pentagon spokesman Patrick Ryder. According to him, the department is assessing the scale of the leak and the potential damage that could result from it.
The leak allegedly forced Kiev to change “some military plans”, an anonymous source close to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told CNN. At the same time, Ukraine claims that the leaked secret Pentagon documents did not affect the situation at the front and the plans of the Ukrainian leadership.
“They don’t affect the front line or the general staff planning,” Mikhail Podolyak, an adviser to the head of Zelensky’s office, said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal.
According to him, the leak “has no operational significance.”
The Guardian newspaper examined some documents leaked to the internet and reported that according to American intelligence, NATO special forces units were located on Ukrainian soil. Most Brits numbered up to 50 people.
The Kremlin was not surprised by this. “Like everyone else, we don’t know how reliable these documents are, but even if we isolate them, it’s still a long time. <…> “We had and still have information that many trainers and fighters from NATO countries, including the UK, were involved in the conflict,” said Dmitry Peskov, Russian Presidential Press Secretary.
Although in Ukraine, these data were rejected. “The presence of the NATO army (in Ukraine) is not correct. “If we do not take into account that in every embassy there is an official representative of the armed forces,” said Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov.
Meanwhile, Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of Wagner PMC, believes secret Pentagon documents were deliberately leaked to the network. He spoke about his meeting with representatives of Wagner intelligence and analysts dealing with US issues.
“We conclude that this document is the final “Nanai-American warning.” It was intentionally leaked to ask specific questions. I think that my colleagues who attended the meeting with me will make a more detailed breakdown in the near future.”