Until I saw the document labeled, CIA Operations Center Intelligence Update, I was inclined to believe that the leaked documents were the work of a frustrated whistleblower. But I have changed my mind. This looks like a controlled, directed leak by individuals who manipulated the 21 year old National Guard troop into taking certain documents and posting them on a public server.
The CIA Operations Center Intelligence Update is a document produced by analysts in the Operations Center to be delivered to the regular CIA analysts. When I worked in the Ops Center I was responsible for monitoring traffic from Latin American posts and flagging items that the analysts in the Latin American Division need to know. I would write up summary paragraphs just like the ones in the documents leaked on line. This was an internal CIA document. It was not broadcast to the other intelligence agencies. In my 23 years working with U.S. military commands around the world, I never saw a copy of this type of report circulating among those with the highest clearances. Never. How did a 21 year old kid get his hands on at least two of these?
The classified documents now in the public domain are focused primarily on Russia and Ukraine. The CIA Ops Center docs now floating around the internet are only partial copies. For example, there are three pages, all classified Top Secret, from an eight page document. If you’re a goofy 21 year old gamer simply intent on impressing your young proteges, why not take all eight pages. My guess is that the other five pages contained no intelligence information on Ukraine or Russia.
The kid reportedly was a cyber analyst assigned to the 102 Intelligence Wing, which reports to the U.S. 16 Air Force:
The 102nd ISS provides intelligence systems maintenance, integration, and operations for the AN/GSQ-272 SENTINEL weapon system, as part of the Air Force Distributed Common Ground System (AF-DCGS) Enterprise, enabling near real-time Collection, Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (CPED) of
The Sixteenth Air Force (Air Forces Cyber), headquartered at Joint Base San Antonio, Texas, focuses on information warfare in the modern age. Information Warfare requires integrating: Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance; Cyber Warfare; Electromagnetic Warfare; Weather; Public Affairs; and Information Operations capabilities. 16th Air Force ensures that our Air Force and Nation are fast, resilient, and fully integrated in competition, crisis, and conflict by incorporating Information Warfare at operational and tactical levels, capitalizing on the value of information by leading the charge for uniquely-21st century challenges in the highly dynamic, seamless, and global information domain..
I do not believe it is a coincidence that he served in an information warfare unit. Remember, he was a low ranked enlisted guy. He had a chain of command. He did not show up to work and decide what duties he had to perform while on the job. He reported to and worked at the direction of Non-Commissioned Officers and Commissioned Officers. He did not just waltz into a SCIF and print documents at his leisure. A guy at his level would attract attention if he was printing off a document like the CIA Ops Center report.
I believe that the alleged leaker did have access to Top Secret intelligence by virtue of his job. I don’t know if there was a polygraph requirement for him and his cohorts. Regardless, all of the intelligence that has been leaked was on a Top Secret computer net and could only be accessed inside a SCIF.
Let me explain why I think the story currently being sold to the public about this young man is too good to be true and, in my view, is a smoke screen.
The first problem is BELLINGCAT. Bellingcat is an Open Source Intelligence outfit that has been funded by U.S. and British intelligence. BELLINGCAT is “credited” with sleuthing out the identity of the site where the classified documents were posted and the name of the leaker.
Pictures of the classified documents first appeared outside of Thug Shaker Central in early March, investigative group Bellingcat reported.
A batch of 10 documents surfaced on a Discord server called “Minecraft Earth Map” after a user posted them.
Bellingcat traced an earlier leak to a Discord server called “WowMao,” which appears to have been sourced from the Thug Shaker Central channel.
An amazing coincidence, right?
So how did the Washington Post get on the story? If the reporters were not tipped off by Bellingcat then it had to be someone in the U.S. intelligence or military hierarchy.
The Washington Post report is written perfectly for credulous readers. It touches all the hot buttons — e.g., racist, religious extremist, anti-Semite, loves guns, hates the U.S. Government. The only thing lacking is that the fellow, Jack Texeira, was not wearing a MAGA cap.
To reiterate an earlier point, the leaked material is not random intelligence material. It is designed to tell several stories. The most prominent is the deterioration of Ukrainian capabilities and the major obstacles confronting the United States and the rest of NATO in supplying badly needed air defense, artillery shells, artillery pieces and tanks. In other words, Ukraine is going to crash and burn.
The information about Israel, South Korea and the UN Secretary General also is enormously damaging to U.S. foreign policy equities. This is a real black eye.
Let me suggest one possibility for this leak — create a predicate for forcing Joe Biden from office. The revelations in the classified documents are not fabrications designed to deceive the Russians. Nor are they the kind of material to rally more U.S. support for pouring more resources into the black hole of Ukraine. These leaks feed the meme that the Biden team is incompetent and endangering American interests overseas.
Just consider what has transpired since these documents were first posted in the “private” gamers chat. Putin and Xi Jinping consequential historic summit in March marked the destruction of the Nixon policy that had guided U.S./China relations for fifty one years. In the aftermath of the summit, China facilitated a rapprochement between longtime adversaries, Iran and Saudi Arabia. Those two countries now have formal diplomatic relations and are working together to end the U.S. backed war in Yemen. The U.S. support for the Yemen conflict was an important element in the United States’ effort to contain and weaken Iran.
In addition, China has stepped up its efforts to encourage important countries to bid adios to the dollar and use the yuan instead for international commerce. The Saudis and Brazil have signed on.
China, along with Russia, are also playing a critical role in cutting the legs out from under the U.S. effort to remove Syria’s President Bashir Assad. It was President Obama who persuaded the Gulf Arabs, Saudi Arabia in particular, to help fund and incite the Arab Spring. Part of that effort was the Arab League decision to kick Syria out. That is now being reversed and Syria, once a pariah thanks to U.S. and U.K. pressure, is now being welcomed back into the Arab League. For the United States, the war in Syria was another pillar in its policy to weaken Iran. That pillar is headed for the dustbin of history.
Russia also is playing a key role in brokering a rapprochement between Turkey and Syria. Turkey played a critical role arming Islamic insurgent, with weapons supplied by the United States courtesy of stockpiles in Libya, in the early days of the civil war in Syria. If you don’t think this is pissing off the CIA, then you don’t know the CIA.
There was another leak today that is quite damaging to Joe Biden.
Obama-era staffer
Former Obama stenographer Mike McCormick blows whistle on Biden kickback scheme: He is ‘a criminal’. McCormick claims then-Vice President Biden used American taxpayer money to enrich his family and says Jake Sullivan a ‘conspirator.’ I am unable to post the video so you will have to click on the following link.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6324957711112
Just another coincidence? I do not think so. Besides painting Biden as a foreign policy failure who is endangering American interests, this twist in the story reinforces the meme of Biden corruption.
With respect to the alleged leaker, Jack Texeira, I will be interested to see if he gets the William Calley treatment (i.e., only Calley was punished for the My Lai Massacre while his chain of command got off scott free) or if his immediate chain of command are called to account.
Sundance at the Conservative Tree House offers another plausible explanation for the leaks. Also worth considering.
The Sundance scenario and mine are not mutually exclusive. Both may be true. I wouldn’t discount the desire of the Deep State to kill two birds with one stone.
And the media (Wash Post and Yahoo) is also, conveniently, declaring that he is a gun nut who has been known to make white supremacist and anti-semitic comments…
Also this “leak” would give senators a reason to pass “The Restrict Act” which is not about TikTok but wants to legislate complete suppression of the Internet with 20 years in prison and a $10 million fine. Plus asset seizures of money and property. It is an overt totalitarian move that could be passed before anyone realizes what they are up to.
Larry, please review “The Restrict Act” (which some are saying is The Patriot Act for the Internet) and maybe get The Duran and Gonzalo to do a roundtable on it.
Thanks,
Charlene
My only question is why would the Intel agency that worked so hard to destroy Donald Trump and pave the way for the vegetable-in-chief suddenly decide to do the same thing to the dementoid they placed in office?
Gun nut, white supremacist, antisemitic are a pro forma MSM description used to trash, discredit anyone so chosen. Innocent until proven guilty is passé.
Makes me kinda wish he was trans too.
They seem to get passes lately.
BTW, the sign-up process has a few hiccups. Had to be repeated several times before accepting.
Too many. I removed it. Back to the old.
Was it a sonar21 data collection operation? Is Larry under surveillance?
Dear Mr Johnson;
Thanks very much for your excellent interviews.
I’d like to bring to your attention that on April 11th (3 days ago), on the RT channel in Arabic language, a lead journalist and his two Russian analysts guests were already stating on air that the Pentagon documents had been purposely leaked, in reason of the Ukraine’s military debacle happening in Bakhmut, in order to provide Zelensky with a ready PR excuse to delay or cancel his now-impossible “spring counter-offensive”.
Here is the RT show in question.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxHt_WmGr78
The description says:
The Pentagon leaks contain a lot of scandalous secrets about of the state of the Ukrainian army. But do the leaked documents contain secrets for the Russian military leadership?
Will the Ukrainian counter-offensive that filled the world with noise and theatrics be cancelled because of the exposure of secret documents? Why does the guest of the episode say that this dangerous information hack is the beginning of the exit of the America from this political project called “Ukraine”?
Zelensky is very desperate, trying to hook Poland and anyone else into the war. His “plan” of total mobilization to raise an army of 5-6 million is insane. The people of Ukraine see this and realize their future is war and death with Zel in charge. Someone put the entertainer out of his miserable existence.
This does seem to be too easy, doesn’t it? The lowest level possible gets stuck holding the bag. It does look like a set up.
Not sure what the game plan is, but now there’s the opportunity for an exit from the Ukraine fiasco. Biden’s likely on the hook too, as you mention, and the story there would be he knew and was behind misleading the public while the good old intel community gets off Scot free.
More intrigue as the admin is tied to the WEF/Davos crowd that is out to destroy the US dollar and economy, something that would be very bad for the MIC/deep state types.
I’m interested in reading the ideas on here as to what’s really afoot.
And America’s food supply.
Look at all the processing plants that have been incinerated in the past year.
You vil eat ze bugs. And you vil be happy.
You’ve made some excellent points Larry. I have nothing to do with the intelligence sector, but I did wonder just HOW a mere kid could have access to such information.
Exactly.
Where did he get the documents?
Don’t think we will be seeing him doing an in-depth interview on 60 Minutes anytime soon.
But maybe some of his buddies know?
Why is he not being treated like Ellsberg with “The Pentagon Papers”?
After all, didn’t the Washington Post and The New York Times print some of his revelations?
Antispiegel blogger says this leak is a set-up designed to kick the ass of the Biden administration and more. I’m slowly coming to the conclusion that this leak (an artificially induced one) has exactly this goal.
Hersh has in his article that the leak is strange and is more inclined to the Biden administration behaving very un-American and causing great harm to America.
You can read them for yourself here:
https://www.anti-spiegel.ru/2023/hat-wirklich-ein-junger-soldat-die-geheiminformationen-veroeffentlicht/
https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/trading-with-the-enemy
PS Since you, Larry Johnson, have very good contacts with these circles. Can you tell us who are the people that Biden is (more or less) desperate to get rid of?
Good to see this back. My fear meter was pegging wondering if the deep state had Larry in a dark room with a spotlight on his head.
This kid and whoever is playing Biden are both being used for scapegoats of whoever is controlling the guy playing Biden: https://www.bitchute.com/video/6jLZSm9zUlTt/
Saudis shun the U.S. dollar and cozy up to China and Russia and they get several inches of hail and snow: https://twitter.com/KalsElaine/status/1646828912016773121
I honestly do not think Biden has any idea of what is going on.
The question is: Who is pulling Biden’s strings? Susan Rice maybe?
Funny how she has a role and an office in The White House but she manages to fly waaayyy under the radar.
She is connected to the hip with Obama.
As they say, there are no coincidences: nuland out with assertion that seized Russian assets will be used to rebuild Ukraine. The timing is “on time” for distraction:
https://www.rt.com/news/574753-nuland-us-ukraine-reconstruction/
From a Duran posting today with Alex, those “frozen assets” are “missing” and possibly Russia got them back.
The EU is finding that they cannot find them (minus $32 billion) and if they did they are realizing there are major legal loopholes to seize them.
I’m a Grandson of Lithuanian Anti-Soviet Partisans – AKA The Forrest Brothers. They were fighters against Tyranny, much like your American Independence War ancestors. Although my Grandparents were martyred for their doomed cause, they preferred to die on their feet, rather than live on their knees under Stalin. Their Son – my late Dad – was conscripted by The Germans, first into Hitler Jugend, then Waffen SS. Although these men did not always play by The Rules, I like to think they at least slowed the conquest of Eastern Europe, by The Soviets. Otherwise, all of Germany, Austria, perhaps even Finland and Sweden might have found themselves behind The Iron Curtain.
And you’re proud of your father’s fighting for the Nazis? Really sad. But you are either lying or misinformed. No one was “conscripted” into the Waffen SS. Read up on your history. Your knowledge is quite deficient.
Of course he should be proud his forefathers fought for the “Nazis”, who were fighting against absolutely everything that so-called “conservatives” CLAIM to be for and the same sorts of ideologies, practices and people that have led to geopolitical situations fomented by the likes of Zelensky and Nuland.
53 million people died in World War Two so what… we could have RuPaul’s Drag Race, unlimited Third World immigration, and the “right” to be called “nazis” for just having the same viewpoints that any sane person had before 1960 or so. “At least we’re not speaking German” though right? (Been to Los Angeles or NYC lately? Do you “conservatives” still think it’s “your country?” You’d better step up those pocket Constitutions in Spanish and Mandarin).
I admit it is not an easy task to deprogram from the propaganda but better late than never. First watch “Europa: The Last Battle” and then read “Iron Curtain Over America” to get some perspective on what transpired in the USA after WW2. The names and places are admittedly dated but it is still worth reading. After that, any number of books by David Irving or Ron Unz (the latter runs an excellent website where his books are available for free) should provide additional context. All of the books and videos are easily available for free mainly from Archive.org.
Your Nazi father and grandfather would be ashamed of you. You should go to Bakmhut right now and make them proud.
Larry,. Your analysis deserves to be considered and I appreciate the opportunity to comment. My initial thoughts were shades of “Spy Kids; “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” and patsy Lee Harvey Oswald & into the house of smoke and mirrors we go. 1) Somehow, in a criminal investigation, the media is publishing names, giving a suspect time to get rid of evidence and setting aside the principle of innocent until proven guilty. 2) A murky interview is given. Too glib – no ehms, errs, or pauses from a supposedly introverted gamer type. How was this individual found and vetted for telling the truth? 3) The WaPo has hundreds of documents apparently not available to anyone else. How does this happen? How are the documents verified in the sense that with the previous release of intel , it would not be difficult to make an App: “TS Document Swap. It looks real, but Insert your own facts and figures.”, 4) DOD requests limited release by the media of new material – the WaPO totally disregards the request. What if there is a friendly informer in the Kremlin – a person of that nature is a marked individual. 5) Lo and behold, the intel reveals the likes of Miley, Austin,Blinken,British Intel, & Zelensky are not exactly truth tellers. The NYT and the WaPo cannot see the contradiction in providing facts which dispute their favorite sources!.6) Teixeira seems bright enough to have, undetected, pirated priveleged infomation, but at the same time , not experienced enough to avoid being used as a conduit in a larger game (whatever it might be). It is interesting, looking at the videos of his arrest, he is nonchantly reading something on the deck while being surrounded by the FBI and nary a glance to helicopters overhead. (In the same circumstances, I believe, having been alerted in the days previous, I’d be a bit more nervous). None of this is encouraging: Take Crimea without a viable plan and no consideration to the cost of the enterprise to the US. And while we are at, lets get into a pissing contest with the Chinese over Taiwan.
Good points. And isn’t it odd that the WaPo and NYT somehow, for some unknown reason broke ranks with the deep state on this one? Or, that a kid with the supposed smarts in IT systems couldn’t grasp the most basic idea that printers and computers keep log files that you need admin status to access, and that would expose accessing and printing documents?
Oh, and the “buddy/friend” being interviewed, as you mentioned, was articulate beyond what is typical of that generation, didn’t even say “like” once. As you say, it seemed all scripted. I wonder what the kid did that targeted him as a patsy, or maybe they just shrugged their shoulders and randomly picked him.
But hey, the third shot was from behind, not the book repository, and the only guy with the right rifle and expanding slugs was a last minute Secret Service guy. Completely off topic, but related to the “Oswald” comment above. Different Patsies, not Kline.
Like all of us who served, Texeira swore to uphold the U.S. Constitution. He was obligated to reveal crimes to which he had knowledge. He has been arrested by hit-men for the Supreme Criminals now running our gov’t and smeared by presstitutes.
Aren’t we obliged to demand that our political reps act now to defend the U.S. against the Supreme (per Nuremberg) Criminals (re their crimes in Palestine, Serbia, WTC, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Ukraine, with crosshairs on China)?
Yes. They should.
Larry,
Thank you for your intellect, your past experience and your willingness to share your analysis with the world despite swimming upstream.
It is perhaps somewhat of your burden to know the future before it arrives.
I hope it is a cross you bare willingly because your perspective has awakened thousands of us and put a proper perspective on one crazy time in world history.
Tim
Sy Hersh’s report on the sabotage of the gas pipelines is the strongest proof that there are people in the Deep State who are very unhappy with Biden. And there had been other signs before. But Larry is the intel professional. And regardless of whether this leak is from the deep state or the white house, it will serve as the same exit ramp from Ukraine as the exit ramp from Afghanistan. “We tried to help Ukraine but the Zelensky Govt is very corrupt like the Afghan Govt and we can’t help anymore and we’re leaving the UKR.” As per Sy Hersh’s latest article: Zelensky and his Generals illegally embezzled at least $400 million of funds transferred to Ukraine for the purchase of diesel. And they’ve already given Zelensky to the lions. Like Ghani!
Because every day more in the UKR is only going to bury more Biden. The war is more than lost and it is better to blame corruption in the UKR! The ongoing de-dollarization of the world is far more dangerous for the US than losing the war in the UKR. Where the US has already managed to disconnect the EU from Russia and just failed to overthrow Putin. And I don’t see what the US can do against de-dollarization either. A geostrategic shift that the UKR conflict and the theft of Russian reserves accelerated over a decade ago. And both the Treasury and the IMF have already said they were not heard. Now even the EU has realized that stealing Russian reserves is illegal. Damage Control!
“Sy Hersh’s report on the sabotage of the gas pipelines is the strongest proof that there are people in the Deep State who are very unhappy with Biden.”
How so?
Have you read Sy’s piece? It is self-explanatory.
Ukraine will not age like fine wine.
Everything says it’s turned to vinegar.
A tough bottle to drink from… whether in the White House or the Senate.
I had a secret (just below top secret), clearance for a few years when I worked on the F16’es at Carswell AFB. They always told us to “put your schematics in a drawer DO NOT LEAVE ANYTHING ON YOUR WORK BENCH !” If I had done what this young punk did back in 84′, I’d still be “doin time at Levinworth” If this same kid were a Russian or Chinese soldier, he would have been executed.
They now give out to many clearances to to many people, like candy, without checking them out, they have made a mockery of “military intelligence” Also, I do NOT believe Biden himself has access to the pentagon due to his Chinese connections and bought off son Hunter.
The place to begin is in accepting that the three decades since the signal events of 1989-91, have been a world-historical Sad Story for the US.
American power, influence, and prestige is in free fall collapse under the illegitimate Biden regime. Too, internally our great constitutional republic is no longer recognizable.
It’s taken eight years to expose the Coalition of the Willing behind this effort to destroy the American Project. In short, Hillary was to be coronated and Trump made the dirty dog for the collapse of the GOP into a controlled-opposition rump.
It didn’t go according to plan . . .
It tells you everything you need to know about the filth we’re up against that, as Trump was on track in the Fall of 2019 to win reelection in a landslide on a nefarious Peace and Prosperity plan, the anti-Trump alignment — everyone who is anybody, foreign and domestic — pulled the By Any Means Necessary trigger on ‘Trump Must Go!’
First we got the pitch perfect attempted replay of the Iranian Hostage Crisis that sunk Carter’s reelection and then it was off to the races with the Covid.
I cannot be the only one to have expected and predicted that once the illegitimate Biden regime was installed, foreign powers would insist upon their promised payoffs. Indeed, I was even right that China would take the lead, and enforce its position, in parsing out the geopolitical wins to other foreign powers.
There is no other way to make sense of the Biden regime’s Afghanistan withdrawal except that China ordered it to blow up Trump’s plan to retain Bagram Airbase against China. It’s difficult to say who was more pleased with this well-honed national humiliation, China or Obama.
In any event, you get highest marks if you figured out that the recent KSA-Iran rapprochement was Trump’s plan. Say what you will about the Chinese, they’re going to teach its tributary its place in the new world order.
Finally, don’t lose sight of THE driver here — the sabotage of the NordStreams. You’re missing the forest for the trees if you focus on the distractions, dangles, and shots across the bow. Do you really believe that planning only began within the USG for such an operation in 2021? If so, that would be a gross dereliction by a supremely well-funded military and intelligence complex. That contingency came into existence upon Obama green lighting NordStream I and promising the second gift of NordStream II.
Unless I miss my mark, Trump was presented with this plan and wholesale rejected threatening it in his browbeating negotiations with Germany/NATO over trade and security. The raid on Mar-a-Lago, coincident in time to key NordStream sabotage events, was to retrieve any revelatory “National Security” documents exposing this backstory.
I’m waiting for the EXCLUSIVE! on the Rachel Maddow show that young Mr. Texeira has Trump flag in his house… just to put the icing on the cake.