I found: British military documents, spread on the street

While he was rushing to attend a football match in Newcastle, England, Michael Genbard ascended a pile of sensitive military documents.

Initially, I think the leaves scattered along a street near the stadium were the trash, they were thrown there from a nearby offices building. But when he bent over and examined them closely, he amazed what he saw.

Names and arrangements of soldiers. Detailed base patrols. Narcotics test results. Symbols of the weapon of weapons.

“I thought, bloody hell, this should not be here,” said Mr. Gibdard, 41 -year -old delivery for delivery.

Mr. Genbard’s accidental discovered this month when it appeared to be hundreds of military documents on an industrial street in northern England, which has shocked a country known for protecting the secrets of the state. It also comes at a time when the United States, the close military ally of Britain, is facing its own crisis in dealing with sensitive national security information, after the battle plans were in Yemen. Discuss a group chat This included the journalist.

But while the United States’ security violation came due to the technological error on the encrypted application signal, the clear mistake in the UK was more likely.

“I thought many of this would be on the Internet, and there will be military programs that need to be accessed,” said Mr. Gibdard. “But here, I was printed to see the whole world. It was the very old school.”

When he chose documents from the street and outside the bottom, he became aware of the amount of materials, from threats to worldly vacation requests, finding them. “It was like the Information Library,” he said.

A defense spokesman said that the accident is being investigated and that “there is no sensitive operational defense information present in the documents.”

The leaves seemed to arise from a black black bag that retreated on a near brick wall. Mr. Genbard also dug through the bag, noticing a frequent name at the top of some documents: Catterick Garrison.

Mr. Genbd, who said he had no interest in the army, did not know what it was, so he wrote the term to Google.

He discovered that the garrison is a major military base in northern Yorkshire, about 50 miles south of Newcastle. It is the largest protector in the British army, and its homeland More than 13,000 people.

“You were like, how did this bag traveled on the ground 50 minutes?” Mr. Gibdard said.

He added that the most surprising thing is that the documents were ever printed.

He said: “I have put your safety in the hands of the army and the government to ensure that this information is kept away from us, so you cannot happen in the wrong hands.” “They still print loads and a lot of paper works, and explain everything.”

After spending a few minutes reading through weapons lists and high -ranking officers’ phone numbers, Mr. Gibdard began to feel uncomfortable with the position he found.

He said he decided to take a picture – but only one picture, because he did not know whether it was legal to obtain pictures of the documents. “I cannot imagine that the army will allow me to enter the base and start taking pictures of all their paperwork, are they?” He said. “So this was not different.”

After taking a photo, call the police.

When no one arrived about 15 minutes after the start of the football match – he gathered what was sentenced to be the most sensitive documents and took them to the police in the football scene. They found his story very suspicious.

He said: “Their reaction was like,” RiiiiIight. “

A Northmoria police spokesman confirmed that the administration had received a report on March 16 that possible secret documents had been found near the Newcastle Center, and said it had been granted to the Ministry of Defense.

He said that when Mr. Genbd left the football match after about four hours, many papers disappeared, but some remained widespread in the area.

“The timing is very ridiculous,” said Mr. Gibdard, referring to the leaked signal conversation in the United States, noting the leaked signal conversation in the United States.

“I mean, I got these two powers, the United Kingdom and America,” which he said, he loves “to show off the extent of their horror in everything.”

He added that if this is true, “We are a country that should know how to deal with our military papers better – the same with America.”

Suzan C Beach The research contributed.