US senior officials are trying to calm “disillusioned and confused” allies from Europe to the Middle East after leaks of classified information from US intelligence agencies, Politico writes, citing people familiar with it.
According to the interlocutors of the publication, both State Department employees and representatives of intelligence and the Pentagon are trying to dispel possible fears about the leak. One of the sources specified that representatives of the Five Eyes, an intelligence alliance of the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom that exchanges electronic intelligence data, requested a briefing from Washington on this topic, “but have not yet received a meaningful response,” reports RBC.
Also, questions about the causes of the leak are being asked by the United States in London, Brussels, Berlin, Dubai and Kyiv, Politico notes. The interlocutors of the publication added that as of Monday, April 10, the administration of President Joe Biden informed the allies that the full extent of the leak was still not clear, and an investigation was underway.
Concerns about the leak are particularly serious because most of the documents leaked are related to the conflict in Ukraine, the paper said. As a former American intelligence analyst told the publication, the method of the leak and its content are “very unusual.” “I can’t remember a time when there was such a volume of leakage with so much credible information that was just posted on social media,” he said.
Recall that in early April, The New York Times reported on the publication in social networks of more than 100 secret documents of American intelligence and the Pentagon.
Source: Rosbalt
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