Army puts senior nuclear official on leave after leaking sensitive information in undercover video
The U.S. Army has placed a senior official in its nuclear and chemical surety office on administrative leave after an undercover video showed him discussing sensitive information about nuclear weapons, chemical agents and U.S. military procedures with a stranger, according to the O’Keefe Media Group (OMG).
The video, which OMG said was recorded by an undercover journalist and released on Tuesday, identifies the man as Andrew Hugg, Branch Chief of Nuclear & Chemical Surety for the Army. In the footage, he describes his job as involving chemical weapons, nuclear weapons and the systems meant to keep them secure.
“We have placed Mr. Hugg on administrative leave while we conduct a thorough investigation into this matter,” U.S. Army spokeswoman Cynthia Smith said in a statement to OMG.
In the recording, Hugg appears to say he is responsible for making sure nuclear weapons remain safe and that personnel with access to them are reliable.
“I make sure people are reliable,” Hugg told the undercover journalist. “There’s no psycho people working on the weapons. You don’t want a psycho person with access to that stuff.”
Later, Hugg describes missile-launch detection systems and how launch messages are handled.
“We have all these sensors in space. We have radar, all these sensors to detect a launch,” Hugg says. “Yeah, with space satellites. With radar, you’ll see it on the radar. You’ll actually see the thing flying. You know how big it is, the speed… and you can tell all this stuff.”
Hugg also described how launch messages are handled in wartime, saying personnel are trained to act on a message once it passes required checks, regardless of how it is delivered.
“We’re literally trained – if a girl scout gives you a message, a launch message, she knocks on your door, goes, ‘Here you go,’ she gives you a launch message on a box of cookies. If it passes all the checks, go.”
OMG said parts of the video were redacted because they contained what it described as intimate details about the U.S. nuclear arsenal, including discussion about missiles located underground.
In the video, Hugg also discusses nerve agents and says such material is in Maryland.
“So with this chemical [Sarin], this nerve agent… Your lungs won’t work. Your head won’t work. Nothing will work,” Hugg says. “But we have it here. It’s here in Maryland. It’s in Maryland.”
He then describes an alleged incident involving a lab chemist he says was exposed after not wearing the required protective gear.
“She’s a lab chemist. She’s supposed to wear all this gear and she’s like, ‘I don’t like it.’ She just wore, like, Crocs and her own clothes. So it soaked in her clothes and it soaked through on her skin,” he says. “So, she could literally start touching stuff and other people would touch, like, a door and then people would die.”
In another part of the recording, Hugg suggests President Trump could target Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, saying he “might kill the next guy” if he is no different from his father, Ali Khamenei.
Hugg also refers to the U.S. strike on a school in Iran when the undercover journalist asks, “But we actually did kill the kids out there,” and Hugg replies: “Not intentionally, but yeah.” He also discusses alleged corruption involving U.S. aid to Ukraine, claiming he personally witnessed Ukrainian officials stealing large sums.
The Army has not publicly addressed the specific statements shown in the video, the apparent disclosure of operational or weapons-related information, or the other claims Hugg appears to make in the recording.
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