Army general left classified maps on train; concussed after ‘overindulgence’ in alcohol: IG report

The U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Antonio Aguto, who oversaw the command that coordinated, trained and equipped Ukraine’s military, left a tube of classified maps on a train to Poland for over 24 hours and was concussed from falling after “overindulgence” in alcohol during a dinner in Ukraine, a recently-released Pentagon inspector general report found. 

The 56-page report, which was published on Friday, found the now-retired two-star Maj. Gen, who led the Wiesbaden, Germany-based Security Assistance Group-Ukraine (SAG-U), brought the classified maps during a trip from Germany to Ukraine in late March 2024 and assigned control of them to his staff. 

“We found insufficient evidence to determine who had control of the classified maps once the travelers boarded the train for the return trip,” the watchdog said in the report, adding that travelers left the maps in the train when they arrived back in Poland on April 4, 2024 and the  U.S. Embassy in Ukraine recovered the unattended documents a day later. 

When he got back to Wiesbaden, Aguto was told by his executive officer that the tube was gone. Classified information is typically transported via courier; it was not ordered that time, the report said. 

“MG Aguto took responsibility for this incident,” the report said. 

The IG office interviewed Aguto and 33 witnesses as part of the investigation after receiving three anonymous complaints between May 20 and May 24, 2024. The office spoke with State Department personnel familiar with the events and reviewed classified and unclassified emails, medical records, official travel records and other documents. 

Aguto was the head of the SAG-U, which was established in November with about 300 personnel to “ensure America is postured to continue supporting Ukraine over the long term,” until August 2024, when he retired. 

The probe also included allegations of a “toxic” environment at SAG-U headquarters, although Aguto was not liable for the unit’s issues. 

On May 13, 2024, during his nine-day trip to Ukraine, Aguto was at a dinner in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital. During the engagement, he drank Chacha, an alcoholic beverage that contains 40 to 50 percent alcohol, and testified that he was “some level of intoxicated.” 

After the dinner, two witnesses reported seeing Aguto fall and hit the back of his head on the wall. Sometime later that night or in the early morning, Aguto fell again and hit his forehead, according to the report. 

“A preponderance of the evidence established that MG Aguto suffered a moderate-to-severe concussion caused by head injuries from at least one, if not all three, falls in the late evening of May 13 and the morning of May 14,” the IG office said in the report. “MG Aguto’s medical exam on May 14, and a comprehensive evaluation by a neurologist and imaging tests on May 16, confirmed that MG Aguto had a concussion.” 

Aguto fell for the third time en route to the U.S. Embassy, tearing his jacket and hitting his jaw. A regional security officer told the IG office that although Aguto knew him, he “looked at him like he barely knew him” and also noticed that Army general had a “little bit of [the] smell of alcohol.”

“We determined by a preponderance of the evidence that the effects of MG Aguto’s intoxication from overindulgence in alcohol during a dinner on May 13, 2024, caused the first fall in his hotel room, resulting in the concussion,” the report said. 

Aguto said he “acted in good faith” and was allowed by then-commander of U.S. Army Europe, Gen. Darryl Williams, to consume alcohol. 

“I acted in good faith within what I believed to be appropriate guidance from General Williams as during our conversation he indicated no limitation on alcohol consumption,” Aguto told the IG office. 

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