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Apr 2023
32m 43s

What we now know about the Pentagon leak...

THE TIMES
About this episode

The US government is scrambling to assess the damage from a mass leak of defence documents seen as the most harmful intelligence disaster for a decade. We trace how the documents spread from a small chat room to global attention, and examine the key information from the leaks.

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Guests:

- Alistair Dawber, Washington correspondent, The Times and The Sunday Times.

- Michael Evans, specialist defence writer for The Times, and former defence editor and Pentagon correspondent.

Clips: BBC News, CNN, NBC, CBS, Washington Post, Times Radio.



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