The administration of US President Donald Trump feared that foreign intelligence officers were involved in leaking information about the depletion of American ammunition in the war against Iran, APA reports citing CBS News.
According to the channel, several dozen US military officials were forced to undergo polygraph tests as part of the leak investigation. According to the channel's sources, "Trump was furious" that this information leaked to the media.
"Only a very small group of people had access to classified munitions data, raising concerns about whether any of them could have been acting as foreign intelligence agents," CBS News notes, citing sources who say all Pentagon officials who were subjected to polygraph tests passed them. The network emphasizes that the test did not include Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) General Dan Cain.