Wikileaks Reveals Private CIA's Dirty Laundry (WIKILEAKS RELEASE: 5 Million Global Intel Emails)

[Hissyspit]

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WikiLeaks publishes security think tank emails
LONDON | Sun Feb 26, 2012 11:02pm EST

LONDON (Reuters) - The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks began publishing on Monday more than 5 million emails from a U.S.-based global security think tank, apparently obtained by hackers.

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Hackers linked to the group Anonymous said at the beginning of 2012 that they had stolen the email correspondence of some 100 of the firm's employees and would one day publish the data so the public would know the truth about its operations.

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told Reuters: "Here we have a private intelligence firm, relying on informants from the U.S. government, foreign intelligence agencies with questionable reputations, and journalists."

"What is of grave concern is that the targets of this scrutiny are, among others, activist organizations fighting for a just cause."

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@wikileaks: WIKILEAKS RELEASE: The Global Intelligence Files. Over 5 million emails http://t.co/q4TE2AzG

http://wikileaks.org/the-gifiles.html

LONDON—Today, Monday 27 February, WikiLeaks began publishing The Global Intelligence Files – more than five million emails from the Texas-headquartered "global intelligence" company Stratfor. The emails date from between July 2004 and late December 2011. They reveal the inner workings of a company that fronts as an intelligence publisher, but provides confidential intelligence services to large corporations, such as Bhopal’s Dow Chemical Co., Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and government agencies, including the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Marines and the US Defense Intelligence Agency. The emails show Stratfor’s web of informers, pay-off structure, payment-laundering techniques and psychological methods, for example:

&quot Y)ou have to take control of him. Control means financial, sexual or psychological control... This is intended to start our conversation on your next phase" – CEO George Friedman to Stratfor analyst Reva Bhalla on 6 December 2011, on how to exploit an Israeli intelligence informant providing information on the medical condition of the President of Venezuala, Hugo Chavez.

The material contains privileged information about the US government’s attacks against Julian Assange and WikiLeaks and Stratfor’s own attempts to subvert WikiLeaks. There are more than 4,000 emails mentioning WikiLeaks or Julian Assange. The emails also expose the revolving door that operates in private intelligence companies in the United States. Government and diplomatic sources from around the world give Stratfor advance knowledge of global politics and events in exchange for money. The Global Intelligence Files exposes how Stratfor has recruited a global network of informants who are paid via Swiss banks accounts and pre-paid credit cards. Stratfor has a mix of covert and overt informants, which includes government employees, embassy staff and journalists around the world.

The material shows how a private intelligence agency works, and how they target individuals for their corporate and government clients. For example, Stratfor monitored and analysed the online activities of Bhopal activists, including the "Yes Men", for the US chemical giant Dow Chemical. The activists seek redress for the 1984 Dow Chemical/Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal, India. The disaster led to thousands of deaths, injuries in more than half a million people, and lasting environmental damage.

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Wikileaks Reveals Private CIA’s Dirty Laundry (Updating Live)

Wikileaks is back with a vengeance. It just has published five million emails from Stratfor, an intelligence company based in Texas that, looking at their practices, appears to be America's very own privately run CIA.

Stratfor's clients are the US Government, other countries and military organizations and companies. They have a global network of spies in governments and media companies, including "secret deals with dozens of media organisations and journalists, from Reuters to the Kiev Post." According to the emails, these spies get paid in Swiss bank accounts and with pre-paid credit cards.

Here are some of the highlights:

@wikileaks: WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE is also here. http://t.co/oGGkJVCT is under a huge world-wide traffic load http://t.co/dsatr2US[p]

[dipsydoodle]

1. Press conference

is today, UK, at midday / 7 am EST here in London. Should be interesting. Meanwhile I'm guessing Stratfor are breaking out the brown trousers.

[pennylane100]

2. I had read earlier today that Wilileaks has something big going on in the next 24 hours.

This should make for some great reading.

I went to their site to get a quick at what was going and I realized why I love the "karma is a bitch" mantra so much. After a wikileaks Afghanistan story they wanted get into the the leak gravy train business. The following was their reasoning:

"[Is it] possible for us to get some of that ’leak-focused’ gravy train? This is an obvious fear sale, so that’s a good thing. And we have something to offer that the IT security companies don’t, mainly our focus on counter-intelligence and surveillance that Fred and Stick know better than anyone on the planet... Could we develop some ideas and procedures on the idea of ´leak-focused’ network security that focuses on preventing one’s own employees from leaking sensitive information... In fact, I’m not so sure this is an IT problem that requires an IT solution."

This is priceless.

[drm604]

3. Holy Crap!

This sounds big.

[greiner3]

4. It was hard to find but here's a link to today's list of leaked emails;

http://www.wikileaks.org/gifiles/releasedate/2012-02-27.html

One of the first emails contains a 'Master List' from 2007 of Stratfor's clients. Among them is Homeland Security; DUH, fucking Virginia Commonwealth University, FUCKING COCA-COLA, Georgetown University and the MOTHERFUCKING KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[boppers]

8. It's a self-funding entity.

Yay, money.

[hedgehog]

13. I looked at several e-mails chosen at random -

anyone paying these guys for information has grounds for fraud! Most of the e-mails sound like they were lifted from Tom Clancy novels!

[joshcryer]

17. They were first to break the Chavez cancer thing.

It's going to be interesting to see who their informants were on that count and who told who what.

[joshcryer]

21. I told you it would be interesting, look at this hilarity!

"You have to take control of him. Control means financial, sexual or psychological control... This is intended to start our conversation on your next phase" – CEO George Friedman to Stratfor analyst Reva Bhalla on 6 December 2011, on how to exploit an Israeli intelligence informant providing information on the medical condition of the President of Venezuala, Hugo Chavez.

http://pastebin.com/D7sR4zhT

[dixiegrrrrl]

26. I just found their master client list.

Names clients and shows money figures.
Clients are banks, telephone companies, investment companies, big USA war suppliers, even Hyatt International.
What's interesting is their list of passwords....really really simple passwords, such as "open 1234"

link to list:
http://www.wikileaks.org/gifiles/attach/1/1785_GV%20MASTER%20Client%20List%203-15-07.xls

[Sarah Ibarruri]

37. What are those money figures? Payment for something??? Am I just too naive? nt

[dixiegrrrrl]

40. I think so. Further in that paper

are comments about "client wants to pay by credit card".

Also, it looks like they have different categories ( fee structures???) of clients: "legacy" etc.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

45. This is amazing, isn't it? nt

[dixiegrrrrl]

49. It is..it appears they have privatized so much of govrnment functions,

including spying!
And of course, voters have no way to remedy the outrageous behavior of a private company.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

51. Yup! Serves them right for privatizing! nt

[sofa king]

47. As a matter of fact....

They have an entry for a "Clancy" in their hilarious glossary.

Clancy- Somebody who has read a lot of Tom Clancy novels and thinks he knows the Craft. Total moron. Really dangerous if he is the Customer. Never let a Briefer be a Clancy.

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/305426/20120227/stratfor-wikileaks-glossary.htm

[Sarah Ibarruri]

38. Unfrikkinbelievable. Never in the history of the U.S. has corruption been so exposed and wide open

I'm glad.

[DearAbby]

5. OMG n/t

[fascisthunter]

7. hooo boy! This will be interesting!!!

[sendero]

9. Any minute now..

... some jackass will come here telling us that wikileaks is a CIA front. Yeah, sure.

[boppers]

18. That happened years ago.

Here, have some woo:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/richardspencer/100065816/is-wikileaks-a-front-for-the-cia-or-mossad/

[Solly Mack]

10. K&R

Snicker

[raouldukelives]

11. K&R

[99th_Monkey]

12. Holy 1% Batman!!! "The man behind the curtain" ***** EXPOSED***** Hoo-Ahhh ~nt

[Sarah Ibarruri]

39. I'm still in shock. It's one thing to know these people are scum and corrupt, but proof??

In their e-mails and info? OMG.

[hedgehog]

14. "WikiLeaks has also obtained Stratfor’s list of informants and, in many cases, records of its payoff

including $1,200 a month paid to the informant "Geronimo" , handled by Stratfor’s Former State Department agent Fred Burton.


Want to bet whether anyone receiving the payoffs reported them on their 1040?

[Hissyspit]

15. "Dow Pays 'Strategic Intelligence' Firm To Spy On Yes Men"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002355709

[saras]

16. That's what the government gets for contracting with the same companies who serve corporations...

No one is surprised except the pathologically naive.

But it's not going to stop them - they'll just limp along like the Wizard after the curtain came down, still cobbling their magic tech together trying to get Dorothy home to Kansas (which in reality isn't there any more either).

[Sarah Ibarruri]

41. EXACTLY! That's what the govt gets for hiring private corporations. nt

[dmr]

19. I can just see The Nation, Mother Jones, and a whole

slew of good journalistic sites & researchers pouring over all this - connecting dots.

Along with the nefarious think tanks, governments and other shady entities.

[CJCRANE]

36. Here are the partner news organizations:

[joshcryer]

20. "we will not be victimized twice by submitting to questioning about the (emails)"

http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/27/us/wikileaks-stratfor/index.html

[dipsydoodle]

22. WikiLeaks publishes Stratfor emails linked to Anonymous attack

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Unlike previous WikiLeaks releases, this latest email cache was apparently obtained through a hacking attack on Stratfor by Anonymous in December 2011 rather than through a whistleblower.

Anonymous published contact and credit card details from Stratfor and said at the time it had also obtained a large volume of emails for which it would arrange publication.

One of the largest Anonymous-linked accounts on Twitter, @AnonymousIRC, put out a series of tweets on Monday morning seemingly confirming it was the source of the WikiLeaks release.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/feb/27/wikileaks-publishes-stratfor-emails-anonymous

[underpants]

23. Wasn't there a FRAUD report done on the Bush years that was shelved for 25 years or so?

I seem to remember that there was an actual study/report done on fraud-waste-and-abuse of military contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan that will not be disclosed for 25 or 50 years (until the responsible parties are long gone).... ????

[KurtNYC]

24. More proof that it's a new world -- a security firm fully hacked

Seems like no form of electronic communication is secure and that is bad news for those who are addicted to secrecy.

Also for those in diplomacy and business who are charged with negotiating. The whole world is now like that bugged room they put you in when you buy a car at a dealership. You know the drill... "let me take your offer to the manager. You folks just wait here" (in this room with a microphone).

My bet is on massive dis-information campaigns and dumps to try to muddy the waters.

[dixiegrrrrl]

25. So there is really not much difference between gov and corporations at all, looks like.

Homeland Security contracting their intelligence sources.....government employees selling info. to private intelligence companies.
Wonder how many other private intelligence companies here are?

[Overseas]

27. K&R. Yes please!

[OnyxCollie]

28. K&R. nt

[Uncle Joe]

29. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Hissyspit.

[Festivito]

30. That means our media needs immediate investigation. What is it hiding, and when did it hide it?

"secret deals with dozens of media organisations and journalists, from Reuters to the Kiev Post."

Have these secret deals lead to unnecessary deaths of our soldiers by not revealing lying us into a war as lying us into a war?... By secret deals to someone making money off secret deals.

[fascisthunter]

31. Finally, somebody else is pointing the finger at our modern day American Pravda

without this media's compliance to hiding this shit, we would not be in the deep shit we are in now. The mainstream media has blood on its hands, and no amount of rationalizing will ever change that, so nobody even bother.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

43. Yes! Our media is crap! nt

[girl gone mad]

34. Stratfor's nickname for its 'Confederation Partners' (MSM assets):

"Confed Fuck House"

Says it all, no?

[Sarah Ibarruri]

44. Our media news is filtered. We only hear what the payers want us to hear. nt

[deutsey]

32. Interesting one about the 2008 election

http://www.wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/347043_insight-mccain-5-internal-use-only-pls-do-not-forward-.html


After discussions with his inner circle, which explains the delay in his
speech, McCain decided not to pursue the voter fraud in PA and Ohio,
despite his staff's desire to make it an issue. He said no. Staff felt
they could get a federal injunction to stop the process. McCain felt the
crowds assembled in support of Obama and such would be detrimental to our
country and it would do our nation no good for this to drag out like last
go around, coupled with the possibility of domestic violence.

My guy said many were shocked, but after reflecting upon his decision,
thought he put the country first.

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Curiously, there are whispers of McCain being set up by the Cheney/Bush
crowd, because McCain was never liked by either. Some are shocked he did
so well. Coupled with serious errors in tactics. Some made no sense.
For example, the Hispanics in Florida loved Palin but his camp would never
send her there when easy money was to be had. My guy said Rove and
company want to bring in someone they can control next go around. McCain
was not controllable. Jeb Bush's name is being discussed. Source
advised Rick Davis was an arsehole and McCain's econ team had no clue,
trusting in academics vice business-people. The Jewish crowd was split
and money never flowed. For example, McCain staff only gave $3000.00 for
nationwide ads, when Obama put in $500,000 targeting the Jewish community
in Florida alone.

I'll see what more I can collect on this.




"...bring in someone they can control next time around." Yeah...that's really worked out for them, didn't it?

[hedgehog]

33. As soon as I saw the reference to "voter fraud", I decided that this

bunch makes some of their money telling clients exactly what they want to hear! There's a difference between intelligence and gossip!

[KurtNYC]

53. that is the business model for a lot of consulting firms: tell the client what they want to hear

often it is even simpler than that -- support a decision already made by senior management

[CJCRANE]

35. Here's some interesting stuff about the Ground Zero Mosque imam:

But add to this array of unexpected connections the work of Imam Rauf on
behalf of the U.S. government-which includes serving as an FBI
"consultant" and being recruited as a spokesperson by longtime George W.
Bush confidante Karen Hughes, who headed up the administration's
propaganda efforts in the Muslim world-and a compelling picture begins to
emerge. Bush's favorite Imam, with backing from a funder with connections
to the CIA, the Pentagon and the currency trading company that now
sponsors rightwing firebrand Glenn Beck, proposes to build a mosque around
the corner from the site of the most devastating terrorist attack ever
visited on America. In the name of "[cultivating] understanding among all
religions and cultures," he puts forth a project that offends a majority
of Americans and deals a significant setback to the broader acceptance of
Muslim-Americans. It's a little like Billy "White Shoes" Johnson claiming
the only reason he moonwalks after scoring a touchdown is to lower
tensions on the football field and raise the other team's spirits.

http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/373982_re-ct-untangling-the-bizarre-cia-links-to-the-ground-zero.html

[DeSwiss]

46. Billy ''White Shoes'' Johnson never moonwalked.

- Everybody knows he did the Funky Chicken.....

[tiny elvis]

50. email is nothing more than entire observer article

with comment-'very conspiratorial, but interesting'

[CJCRANE]

54. The facts are clear

The imam worked for the FBI, was a PR guy for the Bush administration and funded by the same people who bankroll Glenn Beck...it's clear he's a RW stooge.

I don't think that's 'conspiratorial', it's all out in the open. It's just that the TV news reporters don't dig even a micron below the surface to find out what the real story is, so most people have no idea they're being manipulated.

[DeSwiss]

42. K&R

[bvar22]

48. SUNLIGHT!!! The BEST Disinfectant!

Thank You, Assange and WikiLeaks... AND Bradley Manning!


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[Sarah Ibarruri]

52. It sure is! nt