Pentagon 'leaker' Jack Teixeira claimed CIA knew of Ukrainian plan to blow up ... trends now
Accused Pentagon leaker Jack Teixiera allegedly shared a file in his bombshell data dump that claimed the CIA knew about a Ukrainian military plot to blow up the Nord Stream pipeline.
It is alleged that the Biden administration learned of the plan three months before the pipeline was attacked on September 26, 2022.
The document, first reported by the Washington Post, stated plans to deploy a covert team of divers enlisted by the Ukranian military to target the pipeline.
In the September incident a series of bombs blew up a pipeline system in the Baltic Sea that was majority owned by Russian state-owned gas company Gazprom.
Investigations into the attack have been ongoing for months, but no definitive perpetrator has yet been found.
US Air National Guardsman Jack Teixiera, 21, was arrested in April after allegedly leaking highly sensitive documents on online platform Discord
The Nord Stream pipeline was blown up in September 2022, with the perpetrators of the attack still disputed
Plans to target the pipeline were initially picked up by an unnamed European intelligence service, before they were shared with the CIA in June 2022.
Details of the European intelligence reporting were later posted on online platform Discord, allegedly by suspected Pentagon leaker Jack Teixiera.
Teixiera was arrested in April on suspicion of orchestrating the biggest US intelligence leak in a decade, where he was allegedly the ringleader of a covert online chat group and published top secret Pentagon documents under the username 'Jack the dripper'.
Despite serving in a junior position as an Air National Guardsman, he had the highest level of access to top secret US government information.
One of the leaks, which detailed Ukraine's plans to target the pipeline, was shared with the Washington Post by one of Teiziera's confidants after being sourced from an individual in Ukraine.
It claimed that six members of Ukraine's special operations force planned to use false identities to rent a boat, before using a 'submersible vehicle' to dive along the Baltic Sea floor and target the pipeline.
While the information about the alleged plot was not verified, the CIA deemed it necessary to share the report with several other European allies after learning of the plot last June.
According to intelligence insiders, who spoke to the outlet on the condition of anonymity, the document included intimate details over the methods Ukrainian military officials would use if they orchestrated the bombing.
Officials in multiple countries reportedly
