A senior Pentagon official revealed to Sky News in Arabic on Tuesday that a senior employee in the office of U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is suspected of leaking classified documents relating to Israeli preparations for an attack on Iran.
According to the report, the employee serves as an office manager for the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and enjoys access to highly classified information.
This leak is considered one of the most serious in recent years, concerning two highly classified documents dealing with preparations for an Israeli attack on Iran.
The documents, intended for the Five Eyes Forum, which is the intelligence partnership between the United States, Britain, Australia, Canada and New Zealand, according to a CNN report, were written on October 15 and 16 and were revealed on the evening between Thursday and Friday last week on the Middle East Spectator, a Telegram and X channel considered pro-Iranian.
One of the leaked documents deals with the transfer and movement of heavy and advanced aerial munitions at Israeli air force bases, ostensibly as part of preparations for arming fighter jets that may participate in the attack. Another document describes exercises carried out by the IDF Air Force, including launching air-to-surface missiles.
