National Guard Nuclear Manual Disappeared During Walz’s Tenure
“He alleges Walz was one of the few with access to the building where the top-secret manual was stored and was ‘often the only one there.'”
A former National Guard colleague of Tim Walz’s told Alpha News that a nuclear manual went missing after the latter returned from China:
According to the retired soldier, Walz had just returned from another trip to China around the time when the manual went missing. He alleges Walz was one of the few with access to the building where the top-secret manual was stored and was “often the only one there.” The former battalion member believes Walz stole the nuclear SOP manual and later returned it.
Alpha News asked why the missing manual was never reported. The former battalion member explained there was frustration at the time within the unit over Walz “double-dipping,” as he was holding a full-time teaching job while also being expected to serve full time with the unit. He claims that Walz frequently neglected key duties, such as recruitment and payroll, which allegedly raised concerns to the point that a superior had to investigate. The former soldier stated that the unit was more focused on those issues, and when the manual eventually reappeared, it went unreported. In hindsight, the soldier believes he should have reported it when it first went missing but feared repercussions for not addressing it sooner.
The 1-168th Field Artillery, Walz’s National Guard unit, started using the M109A5 self-propelled howitzer in 1995.
The weapon could fire nuclear artillery shells.
The former colleague also said Walz’s behavior changed when the manual went missing:
According to Walz’s former National Guard colleague, around the time the nuclear SOP manual went missing, Walz was pulled over by a Nebraska state trooper for driving 96 mph in a 55-mph zone. The officer noted a strong odor of alcohol, and Walz failed both field sobriety and breath tests. He was booked into the county jail and his lawyer later stated Walz believed someone was chasing him.
Alpha News pointed out that people had to exchange information in person or through the mail in 1995.
Walz lied about the 1995 speeding incident during his first Congressional run in 2005. His campaign told the press that he did not drink that night, claiming hearing loss caused a misunderstanding.
But the state trooper took Walz to a hospital where a blood test showed an alcohol level of .128, which is above the 0.1 legal limit at the time.
Alpha News discovered China developed its own howitzer, called the PLZ-05.
The American and Chinese versions “share striking similarities, including a longer barrel with a wider firing range and digital fire control.”
In 1996, Walz joined the artillery firing battery in St. James when he relocated to Mankato, MN.
Walz’s new “unit took over the upgraded howitzer, following a transition from Walz’s former unit in Nebraska, according to a 1996 field artillery annual report (page 40).”
In August, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer launched an investigation into Walz’s numerous trips to China and engagements with Chinese Communist Party officials:
Reporting indicates Governor Walz has concerning ties to the People’s Republic of China (PRC). In 1993, according to the Star-Herald, as a teacher, Mr. Walz organized a trip to the PRC with Alliance High School students, where costs were paid by the Chinese government. In 1994, Mr. Walz set up a private company named “Educational Travel Adventures, Inc.,” which coordinated annual student trips to the PRC until 2003 and was led by Mr. Walz himself. The corporation was reportedly dissolved four days after he took congressional office in 2007. Since his first trip to China, Governor Walz has visited the PRC an estimated 30 times. While serving in Congress, Mr. Walz also served as a fellow at the Macau Polytechnic University, a Chinese institution that characterizes itself as having a “long held devotion to and love for the motherland.” Governor Walz spoke alongside the President of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, which, a year later, the Department of State exposed as “a Beijing-based organization tasked with co-opting subnational governments,” including efforts “to directly and malignly influence state and local leaders to promote the PRC’s global agenda.”
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I’ll bet $5 to a doughnut that the missing files will be found in Mar-A-Lago and Trump will be killed in the raid after pulling a S&W .357 on an agent.
Not missing. “later returned it.”
Sounds like we’re looking at a case of Tim-Tim here.
If you can locate the weapon of war that Walz carried in war you will probably find the missing manual sitting right next to it.
as do opponents of the same
did it just walz away?
lol. good one.
“Alpha News pointed out that people had to exchange information in person or through the mail in 1995.”
I guess the emails and FTP services I used starting in the fall of 1989 were just an illusion? By 1995 the WWW was up and running.
MILNET was definitely a thing in the mid to late 1980s. We even had a GUI interface that predated Windows by a LONG time. For the life of me, I cannot remember it…maybe Geo…something. I was an adjutant in the Pentagon in the mid-90s and everyone had email, even if not everyone used it.
My university Digital VAX-VMS system was interconnected with other university systems in 1986 when I started school. It had support for all the early protocols…TCP, SMTP, FTP, TELNET
ARPANet came out of a DOD project starting with 4 universities in the SW which became the basis for the internet. TCP/IP and FTP came out of it… the graduate students went on the create 3-Com and other early starts. Good old VMS and DEC.
I definitely remember the Solaris and SunOS workstations at university. I remember first getting access to email and the world wide web and gopher if anyone remembers what that is.
I’m not sure what their point was here. (Aside from them being wrong to some large extent.)
It looks like they’re just saying he had to physically remove the document (unlike more recent stupidities, like the Gaga CDs). I guess for some younger folks (like reporters) that might be a shock.
But the key is that if the document leaves the classified space it has to be checked out. And the person checking it out has to have some accountability (a courier card, assigned duties for Secret and below, etc.). SAC would have buried him 6 feet under the alert facility if he did that. But the Army was always more lackadaisical about classified.
1988 for me in college although I used a computer even earlier in 1985.
Did Waltz have a Q clearance at the time? If so he should have been debriefed when he got back. If he didn’t then I doubt the manual had design information. To get specific was the manual SRD or higher? If it was really top secret then it would have been handled under strict protocols. Even just SRD can never be out of a vault unsupervised.
Handling of classified documents has been known to be a bit sloppy at times; perhaps it was accidentally tucked into his pants when he was walking through?
He told security it was just a big tampon.
He put it in his socks.
This sure sounds like treason.
“Handling of classified documents has been known to be a bit sloppy at times.”
Walz is known to be a bit sloppy at all times.
Wouldn’t have needed Q clearance from DOE since he wouldn’t have needed design info. Top Secret collateral would have sufficed. But he still should have been filling out paperwork coming and going for trips to China.
Seriously does nobody remember the 90’s?
Didn’t they say Clinton functionally sold the Chinese 80% of our nuclear secrets?
Check with the Chinese. Tampon Tim is pretty tight with them.
One guy allegedly the manual went missing the reappeared with no proof that ever happened because he did not report it.
Excuse my scepticism on this. More concerning are the frequent trips to China by an active duty soldier and why that rang no alarm bells.
Another unnamed source says …..
was ‘often the only one there.’
Then you were the problem, and not just Walz. Accountability is a key when dealing with Top Secret.
I was often alone with Top Secret material while in the military but if I remember right I had to sign a log. That alone doesn’t prove anything because the unknown person is the only source alleging something and it’s not that Walz didn’t have the clearance. I’d be surprised that as an E8 he didn’t have it.
He probably tried to provide nuclear weapons to the BLM agitators during the riots.
we know he gave them matches and gasoline
But the gas was E85.
You have to find SOMETHING it’s good for.
Even in the mid to early 80’s there was 2 man rule to access TS materials. Those rules would apply to National Guard units. I find it interesting that the Chinese roll out a similar system AFTER Walz returns from China. It would have been much easier to have given it to a cutout agent to deliver to Chinese assets to copy and then return the manual to go back to the Armory. No need to haul it to China and risk detection at customs. FKH
Any documents China’s agents obtain would be sent home via diplomatic channels–no customs inspection. If Walz provided the manual, it would have been copied and returned; if no one realized it was ever missing, the U.S. would not worry about the potential for the information to be compromised…so we’d continue using the processes, procedures, tactics, etc. the Chinese had access to.
Same sort of thing when the Walker spy ring was handing crypto gear manuals and key material to the Soviets. Since the stuff was copied, we didn’t know the machines and key material was compromised and the Soviets could read our encrypted naval communications as easily as our Navy personnel could.
The Chinese considered Walz even more expendable than the cutout.
Nuclear stuff is very uninteresting. Lots of graphs.
plausible
The missing doc was an SOP manual. If classified at all, it was likely only “confidential.” It would have contained no technical training information (those are in TMs – Training Manuals) nor any tactical employment information (found in FMs – Field Manuals). As an SOP manual, it may have originated at the service level (from TraDoc*, Training and Doctrine Command), or it may have been issued at the organizational level (division or lower), and likely had only instructions for the inventorying, handling, storage, movement, and security of nuclear materials. Not exactly state secrets.
I presume Walz may have taken the manual to show his Chinese handlers he had access to classified materials. If this was all he presented, they were likely singularly unimpressed.
Though, having proven he had access, he might have been asked for more “useful” material. Having a new agent procure and provide something innocuous is a typical early step in recruitment, and might even be used for initial training in tradecraft to facilitate passing more sensitive stuff later.
Once he provides you anything, he’s blackmailable for anything else.
The most important part of this article were the following statements Aren’t these the slogans of the Harris campaign?
“Shad also pointed out similarities between Walz’s messaging and Maoist propaganda, including slogans like “the politics of joy” and “unburdened by what has been” and more recently “turn the page.”
“He’s a Maoist to the core and should not be underestimated,” said Shad. “The snitch hotline in Minnesota is straight out of CCP. Tim Walz is a very bright guy. None of this by accident,” Shad stated. “I’ve been trying to tell people this for 30 years. Nobody wanted to listen.”