The leak doesn’t seem to stop. American intelligence agencies were aware of the existence of several Chinese spy balloons and failed to explain the true technological capabilities of those that flew over the United States in January and February. This is what emerges from top-secret intelligence documents that have become known as top-secret news leaked by the Pentagon in which 21-year-old Jacques Teixeira, a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, is accused.
The Washington Post has reconstructed the situation, which determines that the Chinese spy balloon that flew over the United States this year, dubbed Killeen-23 by US intelligence agencies, carried a series of sensors and antennas that the US government has not yet identified. More than a week after it was dropped. The balloon was one of at least three known to the agencies. One of these flew over a US aircraft carrier battle group in a previously unreported incident, while a third crashed in the South China Sea, according to a second, top-secret document. One of the three leaked documents, the result of National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) work and dated February 15, 10 days after the spy balloon that ended up in the news was shot down, contains detailed information on Killeen. – 23 balloons and two balloons – A known spy from previous years, his names are Bulger-21 and Accardo-21. It is not clear if they were the two balloons that flew over the carrier group and then crashed.
The document said that Bulger-21 carried advanced monitoring equipment and circumnavigated the globe from December 2021 to May 2022. Accardo-21 carries similar equipment. According to what the newspaper quoted an American official as saying, the balloons are named in alphabetical order, from A to Z, and will be named after known criminals, including Tony Accardo, James “Whitey” Bulger, and Donald Killeen. Referring to what appear to be detailed photos of the airship as it flew over the United States, presumably taken by a U-2 spy plane, intelligence analysts estimated that it was capable of generating enough power to power “any” surveillance and reconnaissance technology, including some sort of The radar is able to see at night and through clouds.
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