Everything from the gamer leaker to the global spread of potential sources reveals much about the anxiety-making conditions of 21st-century espionage
fter TS , two other letters repeatedly stand out throughout the leaked Pentagon files: SI. The letters stand for special intelligence, and signify that the information has been derived from signals intelligence work. This encompasses eavesdropping, surveillance and even backdoor access to information systems – all part of a panopticon of global, US-led intelligence collection.
They also revealed that António Guterres, the UN secretary general, “seemed to be annoyed” about the idea of having to meet Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, on a proposed trip to Kyiv; that Zelenskiy complained in a meeting that Ukraine did not have long-range missiles “capable of reaching Russian troop deployments inside Russia”; and that leaders of the Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency, “advocated for” its officials to protest against planned changes to the judiciary.
“If it wasn’t worth it to the Americans, they wouldn’t do it,” the former Whitehall official added. In return, many of the Pentagon snippets analysing the raw intelligence are marked “FVEY”, to be shared among Five Eye members, giving the UK access to the daily outpourings of the US intelligence machinery.
“Leaks are always damaging,” said Lord Ricketts, a former UK national security adviser, “and what’s most damaging is if they have revealed any sources or methods. You can be sure the Russians will have crawled through this for evidence on how the US has got its information, whether from human sources or digital means. The risk is they close down access to information in the future.”Many of the documents are revelatory, most notably about the Ukraine war.
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