Army general left classified maps of Ukraine war on train, watchdog finds
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The Army general in charge of U.S. assistance to Ukraine in 2024 left classified maps marked "SECRET" describing the war in Ukraine on a train, a Pentagon watchdog found. In:
The Army general in charge of U.S. assistance to Ukraine in 2024 left classified maps marked "SECRET" describing the war in Ukraine on a train, a Pentagon watchdog found.
In a report issued last week, the Defense Department inspector general found Major General Antonio Aguto, who oversaw U.S. military support for Ukraine from Dec. 2022 to Sept. 2024, in separate incidents improperly handled classified documents and engaged in the "overindulgence of alcohol."
In April 2024, Aguto misplaced a 1.5 to 3 feet tube of maps that were classified as "SECRET" after returning to Germany from a visit to Ukraine. The report says he realized he misplaced the tube either that night or the morning after and notified the U.S. embassy in Ukraine.
Aguto and his team had traveled from Kyiv to Poland on a train the State Department had established in 2022 with Ukrainian railways to provide transportation for U.S. personnel, not for other public use. After hearing the documents were missing, the Ukrainian director of train security found the tube on the train and dispatched a Ukrainian to deliver it to the embassy.
In response to the inspector general's findings, Aguto said there is no indication classified information was compromised. The watchdog still found him at fault and wrote in the report, "those documents were left on the train, unsecured, and later recovered by Ukrainian nationals."

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