The "mole" who revealed secret US documents on the war in Ukraine would be a 20-year-old with access to a military base : a very young member of the Discord chat on which the American leaks were disseminated was revealed to the Washington Post.
The informant, barely older than his interlocutors, called himself "Og" and, according to the source, would be a gun enthusiast. WP, which publishes the news exclusively, says it has carried out "several lengthy interviews" with the source, who is under 18 and spoke on condition of anonymity with his mother's consent .
The chat by invitation on the Discord platform, on which the top secret American cards were revealed - the source told the Washington Post - was formed during the pandemic and gathered about twenty people, mostly teenagers, looking for company in the in the midst of the lockdown, united by a mutual love of guns, military equipment in general and faith in God .
Most of the talk was about video games and similar topics, and no one paid attention when, last year, " a person who called himself Og posted a message in military jargon full of strange acronyms ."
"The words were unfamiliar to most, and few people read that long post," the source said. But the group, writes Wp, " revered Og, the eldest leader of their tiny tribe, who claimed to know secrets that the government kept from the common people ."
Instead, the mysterious underage witness says he carefully read Og's message and "the hundreds of others who followed regularly for months" and that " they appeared to be near-literal transcripts of confidential intelligence documents that Og indicated he had brought home after his work on a military base .'
Og said he spent at least part of his day inside a structure subjected to strict security measures, where cell phones and other electronic devices that could be used to steal top secret information were prohibited. However, he would have managed to annotate some of the typed documents by hand , translating the arcane jargon for his interlocutors, explaining, for example, that "noforn" meant that the relevant information should not be shared with foreign nationals.
« He is an intelligent person. He knew what he was doing when he released these documents. It certainly wasn't a matter of accidental leaks of news », the boy said again.
(Unioneonline/L)