The document leaks about the war in Ukraine worry United States Intelligence, because with them they uncover country’s own military secrets and the allies. An investigation by the newspaper ‘The Washington Post’ narrows the siege on the alleged author of the leak: it would be, according to statements by a member of the group in which the documents were shared, a worker at a military base.

The source of this newspaper, a minor member of a private group in the Discord messaging service, points out as the alleged author of the leaks a man between 20 and 25 years old that for months he sent the documents to his colleagues in the chat group, first reproduced by hand, and later through photographs.

The group in which these messages were shared was created during the pandemic on the most popular messaging network for young people and adolescents who love video games. According to the member of the group, there were more than 20 people in his chat, the vast majority of whom were young men and adolescents who they shared a right-wing, religious and gun-friendly ideology.

The alleged perpetrator, the oldest in the group, would have been explaining to the other members the meaning of the military jargon in the documents, and would have boasted of being revealing things that “the Government does not want to be known”, always according to the investigation of the aforementioned newspaper.

The group member has also claimed that did not send anything by mistakethat he knew with certainty what he was doing, and that he knows the real name, as well as the location of the alleged author of the leaks, although he has expressed that he will wait for the investigation that the US Intelligence Services are currently carrying out.

The newspaper has had access to videos sent to the group by the alleged author of the leaks – who some members describe as an uncle or almost a father figure – in which he is at a shooting range, yelling before shooting the target.

On one occasion, the source has revealed, the alleged author became angry with the other members of the group, since he had spent “an hour each day writing these very long messages in which he often made notes and explanations of things that we normal citizens wouldn’t understand”, getting angry at the apparent lack of interest from the younger ones, threatening to stop sending out the leaks.

The main rule that the alleged author of the leaks imposed on his colleagues was not to publish the documents anywhere, according to the source consulted by the newspaper, who adds that in the group there were people from outside the United States, including Russia and Ukraine.

This is how the leak would have been conceived

According to the aforementioned media, the The first batch of documents left the group on February 28shared by some of the users in another chat of the messaging network they used, and from there to more and more groups, although the Intelligence Services did not report evidence of these leaks until a month later.

In mid-March, the alleged author of the leaks stopped publishing documents, and a day before the first US outlet reported the alleged leak, he wrote to the group in a “frantic” state, assuring that “something had happened, and I prayed to God that this did not happen“.

After the case went public, the members of the group jumped to another server to continue their conversations, in which the alleged author of the leaks confessed to feeling “confused and lost about what to do next.”

Finally, he asked the rest of the group members to delete all the documents and all the messages and disappeared, something that according to the source consulted by ‘The Washington Post’, “felt like losing a family member, we all cried”. In addition, he has affirmed that he believes that, when the Intelligence Services find the alleged author of the leaks -something that he assumes will happen-, will not get a fair trial and he will be sent instead to “Guantanamo or some dark place”, and he has even added that perhaps he will be “assassinated”.