TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Secret document military and intelligence United States of America appear online. In the secret document, it is mentioned in detail, starting from air defense Ukraine to Israel’s Mossad spy agency.
US officials are scrambling to identify the source of the leak. Some Western security experts and US officials suspect that the leaker of classified documents could be someone from the United States.
Officials say the breadth of topics covered in the classified document, which touches on wars in Ukraine, China, the Middle East and Africa, suggests it was leaked by Americans, not US allies.
“The focus now is on the US leaks, because a lot of the documents are only in the hands of the US,” Michael Mulroy, a former senior Pentagon official, told Reuters in an interview.
US officials say the investigation is still in its early stages. They did not dispute that it was possible that pro-Russia parties were behind the leaks. The leak is one of the most serious security breaches since more than 700,000 documents, videos and diplomatic cables appeared on the WikiLeaks website in 2013.
The Russian embassies in Washington and the Kremlin did not respond to requests for comment.
Following the disclosure of the leak, Reuters has reviewed more than 50 documents labeled “Confidential” and “Top Confidential” that first appeared last month on social media sites, starting with Discord and 4Chan. While several documents were posted weeks ago, the existence of which was first reported on Friday, April 7, 2023 by the New York Times.
The authenticity of the document could not be verified. Some estimates of Ukrainian battlefield casualties appear to have been altered to minimize Russian losses.
It is not clear why at least one was marked as unclassified but included top secret information. Some documents are marked “NOFORN”, meaning they cannot be provided to foreign nationals.
Two US officials said to Reuters on Sunday that they did not rule out that the document may have been fabricated to mislead investigators about its origin or to disseminate false information that could harm US security interests.
Two US officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that while there were concerns about leaks at the Pentagon and intelligence agencies. Documents taken more than a month ago.
The two officials said military and intelligence agencies were studying who the data was shared with internally. The official said investigators saw four or five theories about the data leak. Whistleblowers can range from disgruntled employees to insider threats who actively seek to undermine US national security interests.
REUTERS
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