A little bit chook has materialized to sing that the report of the German generals discussing their plan to assault Russian targets with the Taurus missile was intercepted and leaked to the Russians by the People.
A giant chook, really. The phone convention of German Luftwaffe chief Normal Ingo Gerhartz (lead picture, left), certainly one of his workers generals, and two Luftwaffe lieutenant-colonels on February 19 was listened to by US indicators intelligence after the primary assembly the Germans had with a brand new regional US Air Power (USAF) commander, Normal Kevin Schneider; Schneider took command of the USAF Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) on February 9 after two and a half years in a senior workers put up on the Pentagon underneath Normal Charles Brown Jr. Brown was promoted from USAF chief to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs on October 1, 2023. When Schneider left Brown’s workers, he took a promotion from lieutenant basic to four-star basic.
Schneider has by no means flown or staffed USAF operations towards Russia. He was in Singapore for the bi-annual Singapore Air Present to show what the USAF press workplace referred to as “the chance to sharpen ties with Singapore, show versatile plane functionality, allow engagement with international companions, and develop energy projection.” His agenda of conferences with different nation airforce officers is classed.
Intelligence protection of the airshow proceedings by the US, Russia, and China was particularly intense due to the participation within the present of plane from the warfighting states. Russia, which has participated actively in previous Singapore airshows, didn’t take part formally this time.
The allegation that the Gerhartz teleconference was intercepted by the Russians originated from the Germans and British, and has been amplified in US and NATO media. The primary Russian report that it was US intelligence which picked up the decision after which leaked it, appeared in Moscow on March 4; click on to learn.
What has now surfaced is the audio report and transcript of the primary minutes of the teleconference, earlier than Gerhartz got here on the road. In these 5 minutes, rather more has been revealed by the three German officers than has been printed by RT in Moscow on March 1, when the audio report and transcript started with Gerhartz’s look.
The complete audio report in German, produced and printed by RT Deutschland might be heard right here. The publication date is March 1. The voices recorded in the beginning are these of Captain Hergang, who launched and managed the teleconference from Germany; Luftwaffe Brigadier Normal Frank Graefe, talking in his Singapore lodge room and describing what he may see out his lodge window; Luftwaffe Lieutenant Colonel Udo Fenske and Lieutenant Colonel Sebastian Florstedt, who’re talking from Germany.
A report and transcript in German, auto-translated into English, was printed by Tobias Augenbraun in Dirk Pohlmann’s web platform Free21 on March 8.
The interpretation of the extra proof by Augenbraun and Pohlmann is that “apparently, the plans had been already introduced to [USAF] Normal [Kenneth] Wilsbach [lead image, right] in October 2023, that are additionally the topic of additional dialogue… That is astonishing for the next purpose: All the remainder of the dialog is about convey Taurus nearer to the Minister of Protection, Boris Pistorius… How can it’s that prime German generals have already introduced these plans to a US basic, a full 4 months… earlier than speaking about focus on these plans with Boris Pistorius (Minister of Protection). One thing appears to have gone badly flawed with the order right here. Is it regular to first discuss to generals from different international locations earlier than initiating your individual protection minister? Who’s in cost in Germany? Is the army uncontrolled?”
Augenbraun and Pohlmann consider the German operational plan mentioned with Wilsbach final October was the Gerhartz missile assault on Russia, and that the German Protection Ministry and the Chancellery had been unaware of it on the time. This interpretation has been amplified in a report by a Brazilian who claims “right here apparently we’ve a transparent reduce case of prime German army officers taking direct orders relating to an assault on Crimea – a part of the Russian Federation – straight from American officers within the Pacific Air Forces.”
There isn’t any proof of this within the report of what the Germans really stated and meant.
In accordance with Graefe, “he’s [General Schneider] solely been in workplace for two weeks and he didn’t even know what I used to be speaking about. And that’s why I stated, I’d higher come by once more, as a result of that was October, once we introduced all this to Wilsbach.” That is Graefe’s acknowledgement that Schneider, who was director of the USAF workers on the Pentagon from September 2021 – 5 months earlier than the Russian Particular Navy Operation started – after which for 2 and a half years of the battle, knew nothing in any respect in regards to the German air assault plan for Russia. In Russian, that’s spelled вообще ничего.
As an alternative, there’s proof that Gerhartz and Graefe have been concealing their Russia-attack plan, not from their German political superiors, however from the People; and misrepresenting what they’ve been doing in Berlin in discussions with the 2 USAF generals, Wilsbach and Schneider. These two USAF generals are targeted on China as their enemy; they’ve by no means held a workers or operational command in Germany and towards Russia; their present instructions are restricted to the Asia-Pacific area concentrating on China.
Wilsbach was at his PACAF headquarters in Hawaii concentrating on Chinese language targets, when Graefe says on the tape that “we introduced all this to Wilsbach.” “All this” was Luftwaffe planning towards China, not Russia – purpose for Chinese language army intelligence to have been protecting the Germans underneath shut surveillance in Singapore, together with the Russians.
The German reporters are unaware of the Russian press report figuring out the US because the supply of the leak. They haven’t realized that the primary 5 minutes of dialog reveal the particular curiosity which the USAF had in protecting Graefe underneath surveillance in Singapore. Additionally revealed now’s the USAF motive in making the Gerhartz battle plan towards Russia public earlier than – not after — it had been agreed with Washington.
The timing of the newly disclosed Luftwaffe briefing of USAF Normal Wilsbach final October can be revealing. It was then that the Pentagon was contemplating what to do subsequent within the Ukraine – and the ahead funds required — after the Zelensky-Zaluzhny counteroffensive had collapsed into the rout which the Pentagon had been anticipating because the Teixeira leaks of early 2023.
In brief, on show right here is proof that after the Kiev regime capitulates, the Germans are the enemy the Russian Normal Workers know they need to defeat because the American generals search for a means of their very own to retreat.
Graefe and Schneider have been on talking phrases for a number of years – at the least since 2019 when Graefe, a one-star basic, was the senior German army attaché in Washington and Schneider, with three stars, was the workers director for the USAF on the Pentagon. Even then and there, Schneider was a specialist on Asia, not Europe, not Russia.
Left, Normal Kevin Schneider; proper, Brigadier Normal Frank Graefe, carrying a patch from a joint US-German air train.
There’s additionally further audio and transcript on the finish of the unique report which was not translated into Russian for the preliminary Moscow publication. This runs for 5 additional minutes.
Revealed for the primary time is the boldness on the a part of the army officers that they will get Protection Minister Pistorius to do what they need, and that he’s as keen as they’re for his or her operations to look at the least as competent because the British and French. “You’re man sufficient,” Gerhartz tells Graefe, “and the minister [Pistorius] is a very cool man to cope with anyway. So from there….. You’re the consultants. It was simply essential to me that we simply seem sober and don’t one way or the other smash show-stoppers into it [Crimean Bridge], which they merely don’t … that aren’t credible when different nations ship Storm Shadows [British] and SCALP [French].”
As for the People on the battlefield, Gerhartz concedes “we’ve now surrendered [sic] 3 Patriot radars out of 12. There have been lengthy faces within the FlaRak [anti-aircraft missile group]. However in the intervening time they’re capturing down the planes and missiles that may’t hit us.”
In last phrases on the report, Gerhartz needs his males good luck of their briefing with Pistorius. “Make one thing for visualization – not an excessive amount of, all the time keep in mind: They arrive from a totally completely different world, from a totally completely different world of thought than we who’re speaking right here proper now. So… Sure, then that’s positive…All proper. Then I thanks for the spherical and want everybody completely happy work after which I hope to see you each in Berlin. And then you definitely, Frank [Graefe], whenever you’re again from Singapore. And if I can’t be there, then certainly one of you’ll be able to simply contact me afterwards, as a result of then in fact I’m excited about the way it went with good Boris.”
Graefe then informed Gerhartz a few productive assembly he had simply had in Singapore. In accordance with the Google translation of the German, “I’ve nonetheless bought one thing out of … I’ve simply met the tailor, or… are you able to keep proper on the road?” The phrase Graefe used was schneider. Both this was code for Normal Schneider spoken to cover from the others what was meant, or everybody knew who was meant.
“Sure, OK,” Gerhartz replied. “I’ll name you once more individually in a second.” This a sign that what Graefe had “bought out of” Schneider was so delicate, it wasn’t for the ears of the 2 lieutenant colonels.
This final revelation additionally signifies that if the Russians had intercepted the teleconference, additionally they know what Schneider informed Graefe for Gerhartz. If the US is behind the interception and leak, they need to hold Schneider’s half prime secret.
