One of the biggest pro-Kremlin disinformation and propaganda purveyors turns out to be a middle-aged divorcee from New Jersey and former NCO in the US Navy. It will be interesting to see what happens to Bils, if anything. She had secret security clearances before she was dismissed from the Navy, for unclear reasons, though her erratic behavior was noted, as well as stridently anti-American views. Apparently, after her marriage blew up and she was "kicked out" of the Navy she turned herself into a Russian propagandist, hosting many of the other Russian propagandists on her podcast (Jackson Hinkle, Scott Ritter, Garland Nixon, etc as well as some KremlinTV/RT characters).
It's claimed that she pocketed all the money that she raised via her podcast intended for Russian military causes in Ukraine. That would be SOP for online Russian assets but might make her remaining time on this planet brief if she took money from the wrong Russians.
And of course, Tucker Carlson recently featured one of her fake documents.
Source: Business Insider
A social-media account that spread misinformation about the war in Ukraine and pro-Russian war talking points was created by former US Navy non-commissioned officer, The Wall Street Journal confirmed in an exclusive interview.
Sarah Bils is a 37-year-old woman in Oak Harbor, Washington, who served at the US Naval Air Station on Whidbey Island until November of 2022, online Navy records show. Bils' identity was first uncovered by users on Twitter and Reddit, and first reported by an advocacy site mainly posting about the war known as Malcontent News.
Online, however, Bils goes by the name Donbass Devushka, and her account sometimes posts graphic images of the fighting, praises the brutal wing of the Russian military known as the Wagner group, and sometimes celebrates the death of Ukrainian fighters.
Bils told the Journal that 15 other people help her run the account.
Bils has an interesting "theory" about the leaks.
Bils, who had secret security clearances while serving, told the Journal she did not help to leak the documents. The Journal also noted that the documents posted on her channel were altered versions of the Discord documents, but Bils denied that her team had altered them.
"I obviously know the gravity of top-secret classified materials," she told the publication.
The documents are no longer on the account, but the Donbass Devushka Telegram channel shared a theory on April 13 that the leaks were actually an intentional effort from US intelligence officials and that Teixeira unknowingly carried out their plan.
