Leaked documents show that several high-ranking American officials and at least one think tank took part in planning the Neo-Nazi junta's attack. Apparently, former US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul had his email hacked, revealing "peculiar" papers on the Kursk oblast incursion. Along with former US ambassador to Uzbekistan and Ukraine John Herbst, McFaul was invited to take part in a wargame organized by the Atlantic Council, a rabidly warmongering think tank based in Washington DC.