STRATFORvideo. 2012–13 Stratfor email leak. The 2012–13 Stratfor email leak is the public disclosure of a number of internal emails between global intelligence company Stratfor's employees and its clients, referred to by WikiLeaks as the Global Intelligence Files. E-mails began appearing on WikiLeaks on February 27, 2012, with 973 of the claimed 5 million total emails published as of April 17.[1] Email content[edit] One of the first items released was an email containing a glossary titled "The Stratfor Glossary of Useful, Baffling and Strange Intelligence Terms", which contained concise and sometimes humorously candid definitions, along with pointed assessments of U.S. intelligence and law enforcement.[6] Stratfor[edit] Some emails reveal that Stratfor had been partnering with Shea Morenz, a former Goldman Sachs director, along with other informants, in order to profit from what could be considered insider trading.
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Wikileaks, List of Releases. Search the GI Files 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 : "[Y]ou have to take control of him. Control means financial, sexual or psychological control...
Stratfor has realised that its routine use of secret cash bribes to get information from insiders is risky. Comment Comment: 1. Anonymous. Stratfor. Strategic Forecasting, Inc., more commonly known as Stratfor, is an American global intelligence company founded in 1996 in Austin, Texas, by George Friedman, who is the company's chairman.
Shea Morenz is president and chief executive officer. Fred Burton is Stratfor's vice president of intelligence, and Robert D. Kaplan serves as chief geopolitical analyst. Products[edit] Stratfor bills itself as a geopolitical intelligence and consulting firm, with revenues derived from subscriptions to its website and from corporate clients.
Stratfor's publishing business includes written and multimedia analysis and an iPhone application.[2] Stratfor has been cited by media such as the Associated Press, BBC, Bloomberg, CNN, Reuters, and The New York Times as an authority on strategic and tactical intelligence issues.[3] Barron's once referred to it as "The Shadow CIA".[4] Subscribers[edit] Incidents[edit] 2011 hacking incident[edit] 2012 leak[edit] References[edit] Further reading[edit] External links[edit] Allged US Interference in Venessuala to Research. Search WikiLeaks. Jeremy Hammond.