Posted on 04/14/2023 11:46:08 PM PDT by Morgana
Top-secret intelligence documents allegedly leaked by Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira reveal that U.S. intelligence agencies were aware of up to four more Chinese spy balloons in addition to the one that flew over the country earlier this year.
One balloon flew over a U.S. carrier strike group, another, code named Bulger-21 by U.S. officials, circumnavigated the Earth from Dec 2021 until May 2022, a third named Accardo-21 is also mentioned in the documents and a fourth is said to have crashed in the South China sea.
The documents also identify the balloon that crossed the continental U.S. in January and February before being shot down off the coast of South Carolina was code-named Killeen-23.
A US official told the Washington Post that the naming convention for such balloons is alphabetical, which suggests there may be even more incidents of Chinese spy balloons being identified that were not leaked.
t also appears that the balloons were named after notorious criminals, including Tony Accardo, James 'Whitey' Bulger, and Donald Killeen but the reason behind this remains unclear.
Reportedly hundreds of documents were allegedly shared by Teixeira on a private Discord group with the name Thug Shaker Central.
The most recent documents reveal that the U.S. government was yet to identify the purpose of sensors and antennas on the craft more than a week after it was shot down Feb 4.
The downed balloon was also revealed to carry sophisticated reconnaissance capabilities, including radar that could see at night and penetrate clouds, topsoil and other thin materials, according to one document produced by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency on Feb. 15.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Who knew what, and when - is a puzzle to be revealed by the Washington Post, the liberal media that was searching for info and seeed to know things months BEFORE they eventually led the gov’t to the young man with a profile that would make headlines.
- https://twitter.com/VigilantFox/status/1646685240402870273
- https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1646879965365796864
A future balloon will be named Biden-24.
Pentagon leak traced to video game chat group users arguing over war in Ukraine
The Guardian - Alex Hern UK technology editor
EXCERPT:
The bizarre provenance of the leak may seem unusual but it is far from the first time that a dispute between gamers has sparked an intelligence breach, with the overlapping communities causing problems for military and gaming platforms alike.
The existence of the leaked cache was exposed as documents showing estimated casualties in the Bakhmut theatre of battle began circulating on public social networks last week.
. . . a second set of documents, including the edited image, were being passed around pro-Russian Telegram channels.
Neither was the original source, however. Before they emerged on to the public internet, the documents had been shared on closed chatrooms hosted by Discord, a gamer-focused chat app. In one server, called “Minecraft Earth Map”, 10 of the documents were posted as early as 4 March, a month before they appeared on 4chan.
“After a brief spat with another person on the server about Minecraft Maps and the war in Ukraine, one of the Discord users replied: ‘Here, have some leaked documents’ – attaching 10 documents about Ukraine, some of which bore the ‘top secret’ markings,” said Aric Toler, an analyst at the investigative research group Bellingcat.
That user had, in turn, found them on another Discord server, run by and for fans of the Filipino YouTuber WowMao, where 30 documents had been posted three days earlier, with “dozens” of other unverified documents about Ukraine.
However, even that did not appear to be the original source: a third Discord server, named “Thug Shaker Central”, among other titles, may have been where the documents were originally posted as early as mid-January.
April 14, 2023
New York Times
Leaks Investigation - Airman Faces Two Counts Related to Leaked Documents
EXCERPTS:
Prosecutors in federal court in Boston charged Airman First Class Jack Teixeira, 21, with two separate counts: The unauthorized retention and transmission of national defense information and the unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or material.
Patrick M. Lueckenhoff, an F.B.I. special agent, told a federal judge on Friday that there was probable cause to believe Airman Teixeira had violated two parts of Title 18 of the federal code: Section 793 and Section 1924.
Next - from a Twitter account that copied a bit of info from that New York Times article:
“A breakthrough in our investigation came when the team identified a Steam profile in Airman Teixeira’s name that led to an Instagram profile with photos of the exact location where leaked docs were photographed - a kitchen countertop in his childhood home.”
- https://twitter.com/trbrtc/status/1646592080293122067
hmmm....
also from the Daily Mail...
Mobster Whitey Bulger’s nephew visited the WHITE HOUSE while Biden was vice president: Hunter’s associate who concocted China deals met with top aide
Daily Mail ^ | 4/07/23 | James Franey
Posted on 4/8/2023, 11:28:14 AM by Libloather
A business associate of Hunter Biden with ties to the Mob and China scored an official visit to the White House under the Obama administration.
**SNIP**
Visitor records show Bulger met with Anne Marie Person, one of Biden’s aides from his stint as Barack Obama’s right-hand man, on August 25th of 2016.
BTTT
...The unauthorized retention and transmission of national defense information and the unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or material....
How does a 21 year old nobody get within 25 feet of Top Secret docs?
Were the Top Secret docs lying around in the cafeteria!
Another related question: How does Braindead Biden get within 20 feet of such material?
The doc is stuffed in the pants of a six year old....
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4145847/posts
...without someone within the Department of Defense (DOD) or the intelligence community giving it to him, providing it to him, or telling him it should be put out there. “It’s just not possible,” he said.
He said even though he worked in information technology (IT), he still would not have had access to the information.
“You can be the biggest IT person in DOD, and you are still compartmented off of the actual information. Almost never does an IT person need to know, as we say, the substance of the intelligence. Their job is to provide the secure informations systems around it to protect any disclosures,” he said....
Yet, as I try to read articles online and the pictures of some of the "leaked data," I have *not yet* found any clear statement by the DoD, that the "leaked data" is legit U.S. DoD secret information.
Instead, the overall complaint by the DoD and DoJ, is that there was sharing.
But, if the sharing is of well-crafted guesstimations of U.S. secret info . . . then the government seems to be the pursuit of certain profiles of people who share files.
Well, now they fingered a leaker. Everyone is talking about the leaker.
Funny, few are talking about the content of the leaks
Saturday, April 15, 2023
Airman faces two charges tied to leaking of documents, but how will case play out? https://buffalonews.com/airman-faces-two-charges-tied-to-leaking-of-documents-but-how-will-case-play-out/article_d3030a83-e6c3-5f64-bff3-0432be138f43.html
EXCERPT:
The complaint shows that an unnamed witness who was a user of the Discord server – identified as "User 1" – was important to the investigation. On April 10, the FBI interviewed that user, who told them that another user – apparently Teixeira – started posting paragraphs of text from classified documents in December, and in January switched to photographs, including "a document that described the status of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, including troop movements, on a particular date."
The [FBI] agent said Teixeira was aware that what he was doing could get him into trouble and that Teixeira told one of his friends in the chat group "he had become concerned that he may be discovered making the transcriptions of text in the workplace." From that point on, he began "taking the documents to his residence and photographing them," the agent said.
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