A tranche of what appears to be classified U.S. intelligence material was posted anonymously on the social media platform Discord over the last three months in the latest leak of highly guarded national secrets.
The documents, all photographs of print-outs, pertain to a host of sensitive American national security matters including the ongoing U.S.-led coalition campaign to defeat ISIS, the disposition of U.S allies in the Middle East and Europe with respect to Russia, and the United Kingdom’s prospective military plans for countering China in the Pacific.
Yahoo News has seen over a hundred other documents, but cannot verify their authenticity. There is the possibility that some or all may be forgeries or manipulated versions of originals. They cover a gamut of urgent U.S. foreign policy preoccupations. One print-out posted on Discord contains significant technical detail about the numbers and potential failures of a specific weapon system provided by the United States to Ukraine. The document is marked"SECRET/NOFORN" —"NOFORN" meaning"Not Releasable to Foreign Nationals." That is an explicit classification used to indicate intelligence information that"may not be released in any form to foreign governments, foreign nationals, foreign organizations, or non-U.
The Ukraine documents that were circulated by pro-Russian sources contained crudely photoshopped modifications to casualty figures to suggest Ukrainian forces had suffered significantly more casualties, and Russian forces significantly less casualties, than had actually been assessed by American intelligence.
The murkiness of where this stuff came from and whether or not it’s genuine has already become a big part of the story.
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