A confidential reminder of the Tennessee Fusion Center revised by Wired Details Quattro Break-in to the Armies of the Tennessee National Guard in a span of seven weeks. In an accident, the thieves remained with glasses for night vision, target laser locators and mirini of thermal weapons, among other equipment. In others, the intruders violated fences, alarm stumbled and have obtained access to the discovered refueling rooms that have been unlocked.
At least some of the breaks seem to indicate potential privileged help. In Covington, in Tennessee, for example, the evidence suggests that intruders may have known the position of a safe key control box in advance. In other sites, attempts have been made to bypass the alarms and entrance points.
The reminder, intended exclusively for the use of the police, does not indicate that the weapons have been stolen; However, a government’s anti -terrorism coordinator is mentioned which states: “These events are worrying not only because of the stolen elements of a sensitive nature, but also due to the indicators for some privileged knowledge necessary for violation and success theft”.
The document, obtained for the first time by the non -profit guard group Property of peopleIt was shared exclusively with Wired.
The breaks remain under active investigations and attracted the attention of the Marshal General Pentagon office, the main contrast authority of the American army. A senior police source informed Wired Tuesday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is leading the investigation. The FBI refused to confirm.
“FBI’s policy prohibits confirming or denying an investigation unless in rare circumstances in which advertising would help investigations, as if in looking for a missing child or in an attempt to identify a banks thief,” says Elizabeth Clement-Webb, a public affairs of the FBI public affairs. “The question you are investigating does not satisfy that exception, so it would not be advisable to comment on.”
The Pentagon referred to the questions to the National Guard. The guard did not respond to a commentary request.
Initially considered isolated accidents, the memo cites years of FBI and defense department that report on what the agents call “violent domestic extremists” or DVE, discussing plans for raids for weapons and equipment, which push analysts to suspect organized activities. Domestic intelligence has constantly marked the members of the violent militia and the racially motivated extremists who observe the armies as soft targets.
“Although previously the DVE stolen some lower level military equipment, the FBI did not identify any cases in which a DVE has successfully raided an arsenal to steal heavy military equipment”, reads the memo. “To get around such a raid, the FBI and the DOD are improving the connection with the local armies and military structures to fill the gaps in the reporting of current plots to exploit the vulnerabilities of the Armoria and increase the opportunities to detect and prevent the theft of DVE of military equipment.”
Between 2020 and 2024, the Memo says that at least four of the FBI subjects discussed to raid military structures for heavy weapons, including firearms of caliber .50 and machine guns. Three had confirmed military backgrounds. One – a former member of the guard – identified the specific armors he had served, while describing the best way to exploit their safety. It is not clear whether accusations have been presented.
The extremist chatter cited by the document echo to these ambitions. At the beginning of 2024, a telegram user connected to the militia proposed to evaluate the vulnerability of the armory with the help of the cute firefighters and sought military recruits or application of the law for internal information. In another case, an active tanks commander said he could influence a armor to deliver weapons, while a former Air Force contractor spoke of raiding a guard structure to grasp the mortars and guarantee land.