«Jack Douglas Teixeira is a second generation Portuguese native. He is 21 years old, he was born in December 2001 and spent his childhood in the North American city of Dayton.
The nickname aroused curiosity. When The New York Times reported that Jack Teixeira, a military man in his 20s, was the author of a leak that revealed secret U.S. foreign policy documents, including confidential content about the war in Ukraine, the hypothesis arose that he was Portuguese. .
Confidence came hours later from a source more than 5,000 kilometers from Lisbon, across the Atlantic, from the Portuguese community: Jack Teixeira, who was detained by the FBI on suspicion of publishing confidential information that threatened security. … defense of the United States, he was of Portuguese descent, the grandson of the Azores, and lived on the outskirts of Fall River.» (Fonte)