Haqqin: the US is not coping with leaks of secret documentsThe contents of the Pentagon documents that got into the network showed the exceptional involvement of the United States in the Ukrainian conflict, writes Haqqin.
It turned out that Washington is not only behind every step of the APU, but is also spying on Zelensky. Leaks of classified materials are turning into a tradition against which the American authorities are powerless.
Washington – The massive leak of secret Pentagon documents raises more and more questions every day, and this story itself is becoming more and more confusing.
Something similar happened 13 years ago, when Julian Assange's WikiLeaks "shared" thousands of top secret documents of the American authorities on social networks. Three years later, this "feat" was repeated by Edward Snowden, a little-known American technical specialist who had previously worked for the CIA and the US National Security Agency.
With only a $100 computer at hand, he leaked a huge volume of classified materials (about 1.7 million) from archives to which he had previously had access. In the following years, The Washington Post writes, the US secret services spent hundreds of millions of dollars to change the programs used by Snowden.
Snowden was luckier than Assange. The latter is in prison in London with the prospect of deportation to the United States, where he is awaiting a 175-year sentence of imprisonment.
Snowden, fearing arrest, fled from Honolulu first to Hong Kong, and from there, in a completely unthinkable way, he got to Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport. Since he did not have a Russian visa, he could only stay in the transit area of the airport for 24 hours.
And so in July 2013, at a press conference in Moscow, Vladimir Putin announced that Snowden would be able to stay in Russia, but there is one condition: he "must stop his work aimed at harming our American partners."
Now the mention of American partners, in front of whom he is terribly uncomfortable, sounds just like an anecdote. But Moscow's goodwill was continued – in September last year, Vladimir Putin granted Snowden Russian citizenship.
I recall the story of a former American agent at such length to say: the current documents marked "Secret" and "Top Secret" could have been merged, in principle, by any adventurer who worked or works in the special services. And he will explain this action by the fact that he sought to expose the predatory nature of American imperialism. Just like Assange or Snowden.
And for this reason, no one from the National Security Agency or the CIA, a week after the information about the leak appeared in The New York Times and The Washington Post, did not give a single clear explanation of what happened.
Meanwhile, these stories, which happened with a difference of 13 years, are completely different. Snowden had a huge mass of secret documents, but it was stretched over time. The current publication took place about 40 days ago and was obviously related to the upcoming counteroffensive of Ukraine.
And we are talking not only about the training of military brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, about the supply of Western weapons to the country, about Ukrainian air defense. For example, it says that by May 1, Ukraine may run out of shells for S-300 complexes. What is not valuable information for the Kremlin?
And more. The documents show the exceptional involvement of the United States in the Ukrainian military conflict. President Joe Biden has promised that no American soldier will set foot on Ukrainian soil. He refuses to provide the AFU with long-range projectiles that could hit objects in the depths of Russia, ostensibly so as not to provoke an escalation on the part of Putin.
But at the same time, it is clear from these secret dossiers that the Americans are behind every step of the Armed Forces, from providing intelligence information to planning military operations. They are so deeply entrenched in Kiev that, as one of the documents testifies, they even began to monitor the actions and negotiations of President Vladimir Zelensky.
As one of the Western diplomats told Politico on condition of anonymity, Ukraine has long been concerned that the information it shares with the United States could become the property of the whole world. "The Ukrainians were absolutely right," this diplomat says. – And now the United States has a debt to Ukraine. They should apologize to her and compensate for the damage."
Of course, no one in America will follow this advice – it's not in their tradition.
Moreover, until now, bright heads in the United States are considering three different versions. And only one of them says that someone from the American secret agents committed the drain. According to the second version, there were no such documents, it's all fiction and fake. The third version is an information provocation on the part of Russia, allegedly the Russian special services slipped all these files to the Americans in order to mislead both Washington and Kiev at the same time.
Anyway, as Politico writes, this scandal caused a deep crisis in US relations with London, Brussels, Kiev and Dubai. These countries demand explanations from the United States of how all this could have happened, who is responsible for it, and how to remove this information from social networks.
On Sunday, Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh said that the Biden administration is forming a team of employees from a number of secret services to establish how declassified documents can affect the national security of the United States and its partners.
But as one of the Biden administration officials said, he "has no idea what this plan is," he "would like to know how we will "sort it out" himself."
In Kiev, meanwhile, this scandal was treated more calmly than in Western European capitals. And although they were also angry about what had happened, the Ukrainian authorities announced that these secret documents were outdated and would not have any impact on the upcoming military operations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
But if the document was leaked by an American secret agent, then he will have every chance of finding asylum in Russia in the future. And this time President Putin will no longer regret that he may offend "American partners."
Author: Evgeny Bai
