Is 'OG' the man behind the huge leak of US intelligence secrets?
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm Jackie Lennon at 13 hours GMT on Thursday, the 13th of April. |
| 0:09.5 | These are our main stories. |
| 0:11.4 | Details are emerging about the man said to be behind the huge US intelligence leaks. |
| 0:16.4 | Norway is expelling 15 Russian diplomat seducuses of spying and Ghana has become the first |
| 0:22.6 | country to approve a malaria vaccine that's thought to be highly effective. |
| 0:28.0 | Also, in this podcast, the whole idea of the clueless seducuses isn't like marvellous. |
| 0:33.0 | It's marvellous to be a woman. It's marvellous to be alive and to be a woman now, right now. |
| 0:39.0 | Mary Quant, the British designer who transformed dress styles in the 1960s, has died age 93. |
| 0:49.0 | Dozens of apparently classified documents from the US military are circulating online and it's caused alarm. |
| 0:56.0 | The documents contain detailed information about the war in Ukraine, including the extent to which the US has infiltrated the Russian military services. |
| 1:05.0 | It's a diplomatic nightmare. So who is behind it? |
| 1:09.0 | Well, the Washington Post has interviewed someone who claims to know the man responsible. |
| 1:13.0 | Paul Adams is our diplomatic correspondent and told us about the leaked documents. |
| 1:18.0 | They cover an enormous range of subjects. Obviously a lot of them dwell on the war in Ukraine, |
| 1:24.0 | on the state of the relative state of the two militaries, the Russians and the Ukrainian, on plans and preparations for a Ukrainian counteroffensive possibly to be launched in the coming weeks. |
| 1:35.0 | But there are also lots of others that talk about the spread of Chinese technology, about the reach of the Russian private military company Wagner into various African countries and Haiti. |
| 1:48.0 | It is just an absolute wealth of material. |
| 1:51.0 | So the big question, what do we know about the person who leaked the documents? |
| 1:55.0 | Well, we're beginning to get some pretty interesting insights into that, thanks to the American Washington Post newspaper, |
| 2:02.0 | which has spent quite a lot of time talking to someone who claims to know the identity of the leaker, who is described simply as OG, |
| 2:14.0 | and an absolutely fascinating insight begins to emerge of a group of young men who came together in the early months of the pandemic lockdown, when everyone will remember we were all feeling a bit lonely. |
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