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2023-04-07 Government Corruption
Pentagon Ukraine War Plans Hacked
[DNYUZ] Classified war documents detailing secret American and NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants...
plans for building up the Ukrainian military ahead of a planned offensive against Russia were posted this week on social media channels, senior Biden administration officials said.

The Pentagon is investigating who may have been behind the leak of the documents, which appeared on Twitter and on Telegram, a platform with more than half a billion users that is widely available in Russia.

Military analysts said the documents appear to have been modified in certain parts from their original format, overstating American estimates of Ukrainian war dead and understating estimates of Russian troops killed.

The modifications could point to an effort of disinformation by Moscow, the analysts said. But the disclosures in the original documents, which appear as photographs of charts of anticipated weapons deliveries, troop and battalion strengths, and plans, represents a significant breach of American intelligence in the effort to aid Ukraine.

Biden officials were working to get them deleted but had not, as of Thursday evening, succeeded.

"We are aware of the reports of social media posts and the department is reviewing the matter," said Sabrina Singh, the deputy press secretary at the Pentagon.

The documents do not provide specific battle plans, like how, when, and where Ukraine intends to launch its offensive. And because the documents are five weeks old, they offer a snapshot of time — the American and Ukrainian view, as of March 1, of what Ukrainian troops might need for the campaign.

To the trained eye of a Russian war planner, field general or intelligence analyst, however, the documents no doubt offer many tantalizing clues. The documents mention, for instance, the expenditure rate of HIMARS — American-supplied high mobility artillery rocket systems, which can launch attacks against targets like ammunition dumps, infrastructure and concentrations of troops, from a distance. The Pentagon has not said publicly how fast Ukrainian troops are using the HIMARs munitions; the documents do.

It was unclear how the documents ended up on social media. But pro-Russian government channels have been sharing and circulating the briefing slides, military analysts said.

The analysts warned that documents released by Russian sources could be selectively altered to present the Kremlin’s disinformation.
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#1 Top secret US intelligence detailing plans to help Ukraine beat Russia are leaked on Twitter and Telegram
Posted by Skidmark 2023-04-07 05:15||   2023-04-07 05:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Karine drunk-texting?
Posted by swksvolFF 2023-04-07 13:36||   2023-04-07 13:36|| Front Page Top

#3 "Leaked" Sure thing buddy.
Posted by DarthVader 2023-04-07 13:51||   2023-04-07 13:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Russians say the leak is an American information operation.
Posted by badanov 2023-04-07 14:49||   2023-04-07 14:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Trust it like a Taco Bell fart.

Meant for US consumption?
Posted by swksvolFF 2023-04-07 15:52||   2023-04-07 15:52|| Front Page Top

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