Kirby gave new information about the Sept. 29, after a two-day scramble to clear the declassification, NSC spokesperson John Kirby convened an unscheduled Zoom call with members of the White House press corps. Then it shipped the request to the office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) in Northern Virginia via classified email. The NSC Intelligence Directorate edited the secret details of the buildup to obscure the sources and methods behind the intelligence. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan approved a request from his Europe team to declassify elements of the Serbian buildup for public release. So as part of an effort to pressure Serbia to back down, U.S. In Washington, attention was focused on chaos in Congress in much of Europe, the top priority was marshaling continued support for Ukraine. Diplomatic efforts by the U.K., Italy, and other countries with troops on the ground in Kosovo had failed to calm the situation. Months of mounting tensions in a remote corner of southeastern Europe had not received much attention in the media. “We were very worried that Serbia could be preparing to launch a military invasion,” says one National Security Council (NSC) official. Now Serbia was deploying heavy weapons and troops. Three days earlier, more than two dozen armed Serbs had killed a Kosovar police officer in an attack. Serbian forces were massing along the length of their country’s border with Kosovo, where NATO has kept an uneasy peace since a bloody war of secession in 1999. 27, a Balkans expert at the White House got a disturbing call from a U.S. SHARE Illustration by Javier Jaén for TIME Mass surveillance and social media are changing the spy game.
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