WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is investigating an unauthorized release. confidential document evaluate Israel’s plan to attack Iranthree U.S. officials told The Associated Press. A fourth U.S. official said the documents appeared to be legitimate.
The document belongs to National Geospatial Intelligence Agency and national security agencyAnd note that Israel was still moving military assets into place in response to military attacks. Iran’s deadly ballistic missile attack These can now be shared within the ‘Five Eyes’ of the US, UK, Canada, New Zealand and Australia.
The document, marked top secret, was posted on the messaging app Telegram and was first reported by CNN and Axios on Saturday. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.
The investigation will determine how the documents were obtained, whether they were intentionally leaked by members of the U.S. intelligence community or obtained through other means, such as hacking, and whether other intelligence information was compromised. are also being investigated, one of the officials said. . As part of this investigation, authorities are working to determine who had access to the documents before they were posted, officials said.
The United States urged Israel to take advantage of its exclusion. Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar It is pressing for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and has also issued an urgent warning to Israel not to expand further. Military operations in northern Lebanon and risk a broader regional war. However, Israeli leaders have repeatedly stressed that they have no intention of letting Iran’s missile attacks go unchecked.
The Pentagon said in a statement that it was aware of reports of the document but had no further comment.
The Israeli military did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the leaks of the two documents.
The document was first published online Friday through a Telegram channel, claiming it had been leaked by someone in the U.S. intelligence community and then the U.S. Department of Defense. This information appears to have been collected entirely using satellite image analysis.
One of the two documents was similar in style to other National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency materials. leaked by jack teixeiraAir National Guard member pleaded guilty in March Leading to the leak of top secret military documents regarding Russia’s war with Ukraine and other national security secrets.
The Telegram channel involved in the leak said it was based in Iran’s capital, Tehran. It has previously posted memes featuring Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei and content supporting Tehran’s self-proclaimed “Axis of Resistance,” which includes Middle Eastern extremist groups armed by the Islamic Republic.
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Associated Press writer John Gambrell in Jerusalem contributed to this report.
