The New York Times revealed on Wednesday that the United States had helped Ukraine kill Russian generals. Asked about it, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said the Americans “do not provide intelligence on the location of senior military officials on the battlefield, nor participate in targeting decisions. Ukrainian army.
He added that Ukraine was integrating the information obtained from the Americans with its own “to make its own decisions and its own measures”. It was more a confirmation of collaboration than a denial.
Listening to the whole planet
The Ukrainians certainly obtain operational intelligence from the “Five Eyes” electronic spy network of the 5 Anglo-Saxon countries (United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) which monitors the networks of telecommunications around the world.
The Communications Security Establishment of Canada (CSEC), Ottawa’s electronic spy arm is part of “Five Eyes”, sometimes also known by the code name “ECHELON”.
“Five Eyes” has the means not only to intercept oral communications, but also to identify speakers using “voiceprint” technology developed in Montreal.
CRIM and ECHELON
At the turn of the 2000s, the European Parliament published a report in which we learned that the “voiceprint” technology had been developed by the Computer Research Center of Montreal (CRIM). It makes it possible to identify the voice of an interlocutor among the billions of conversations circulating on the global telecommunications networks.
“Five Eyes” has in its databases the voice prints of a very large number of “subjects of interest” – Russian generals for example – and can therefore listen to their conversations and locate them.
The Americans may not have directly participated in the targeting of Russian generals killed by Ukrainian strikes, but they no doubt provided the Ukrainians with the software needed to identify and locate them.
