The mainstream media treatment is, as usual, not detailed or insightful enough for dedicated subject matter enthusiasts, albeit that the NYT is the preferred American outlet for FBI/CIA/DoD sources and communications. There are a few reasons to believe US actors engineered the leak as a false/no flag breach, or there were some reasons at least. A strong counterargument to the disinf op theory is that not only have these documents and similar ones been floating around since even earlier than once believed (lmao that I know one of the Youtube shitposters implicated here), but there has apparently been a large leak of all sorts of intelligence materials and serial analyses pertaining to most major global points of interest for the American IC. There is truly nothing in the content of the Ukraine-related leaks that could meaningfully deceive Russia to the point of justifying cover leaks of even more sensitive material.

I don't want to spend a lot of time hunting for the more obscure leaks in the crevices of the Internet, but if you know where some are hosted, or have them saved yourself, I would appreciate the tip.