The man who apparently uploaded hundreds of classified files over recent months to Discord, a messaging platform, appears to have done so to show off to friends on the internet
Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers, a secret study of the Vietnam war, because he was outraged by America’s lies about how the conflict was going. In 2010 Chelsea Manning leaked hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables and other information to WikiLeaks in protest at the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Three years later Edward Snowden disclosed as many as 200,000 documents from the National Security Agency to decry the scale of the country’s electronic espionage.
The Discord leaks have shaken America’s national-security bureaucracy. The leaker appears to have shared classified Pentagon slides andassessments with a tight-knit group of friends on Thug Shaker Central, a Discord server, since at least last year. Thereported that the leaker “had a dark view of the government” and fulminated over “government overreach”. He was also a gun enthusiast who used racial and anti-Semitic slurs in one video.
An initial batch of just over 50 files escaped from that server to others, and eventually to Telegram, a social-media site popular among Russians, including those tracking the war in Ukraine. Those files, which have been reviewed by, included detailed assessments of Ukraine’s armed forces, the course of the war and the effectiveness of particular American weapons there.
Many include sensitive details. A slide on Western surveillance flights over the Black Sea between September and February, marked “” to indicate that it cannot be shared even with America’s closest intelligence allies, shows the path taken by American, British, French andspy planes close to Russia-occupied Crimea. It suggests that America’s defence secretary has imposed a 40-nautical-mile “standoff” range from Crimea for such flights.
Another slide depicts the delivery timeline for 155mm artillery ammunition from South Korea, presumably bound for Ukraine . It suggests that over 250,000 shells will have been delivered in total—around a month’s worth of supply at present rates of fire. A separatereport from early March describes internal deliberations from South Korea’s National Security Council, captured by signals intelligence, over whether to send ammunition via Poland.
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