Stratfor “Source” James Casey Leaves FBI. One of the “sources” that Stratfor chief Fred Burton queried for information about Wikileaks was “a senior FBI Hqs agent and former DSS agent” with the email jimcasey58@aol.com. They were evidently quite close. In October of 2007 Burton sent along Stratfor’s Terrorism Intelligence Report for review by jimcasey58@aol.com, and this was the reply forwarded to other Stratfor employees: From: jimcasey58@aol.com [mailto:jimcasey58@aol.com] Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 4:43 PM To: burton@stratfor.com Subject: Re: Terrorism Intelligence Report – Security Contractors in Iraq: Tactical — and Practical — ConsiderationsGood Stuff Fred!
I can just picture you and I strapping on a big ‘ol one and leading a Blackwater team into a dangerous motorcade! OK, so maybe the most dangerous thing we do is cut in line at Starbucks. We’re too old (and smart) for this other shit. Sounds exactly like the defense being pursued by Bradley Manning’s attorneys at the moment. Jim: How bad will the next round be?
The Value of the Stratfor Leak. On November 15, hacktivist Jeremy Hammond was unjustly sentenced to ten years in prison for, among other actions, hacking confidential emails out of the Austin-based private intelligence firm Stratfor. WikiLeaks published these emails as the Global Intelligence Files. I’ve been researching them intensively for more than a year, and have published two articles on my research at WhoWhatWhy, one on General David Petraeus and one on the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Special Operations Division seeking White House permission to kill Mexican drug lord El Chapo.
That second also includes a lot of my research into Stratfor’s informants and clients. The day of Jeremy’s sentencing hearing, I gave a speech at Foley Square outside the courtroom and some interviews about the value of the Stratfor leak. The leak will continue to benefit researchers for years and years. The Global Intelligence Files. Specified Search 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. The material contains privileged information about the US government’s attacks against Julian Assange and WikiLeaks and Stratfor’s own attempts to subvert WikiLeaks. Comment How to read the data. The Global Intelligence Files - Release List. Stratfor: Inside the World of a Private CIA.
The leak of over five million emails from the US-based intelligence firm Stratfor, including information about credit card details, passwords, and the identities of sources, sheds new light on the rapidly changing world of intelligence gathering and exposes those behind it. Al-Akhbar gained access to the data obtained and published by WikiLeaks, including sensitive material pertaining to the Middle East. ◙ Browse through emails referenced in this article The Strategic Forecasting Inc., commonly known as Stratfor, is a private firm dealing in the lucrative business of intelligence gathering and assessment. Founded in 1996, the company gained global prominence during the NATO bombing of Kosovo in 1999 when its seemingly cutting-edge analysis was publicized by various news agencies. Until recently, much of the inner workings of Stratfor had been shrouded in mystery.
What is Stratfor? Friedman's wife, Meredith, is actively involved in the operations of the think tank. Behind Stratfor's Hype. Stratfor. Hassan Chakrani, Yazan al-Saadi In his most recent op-ed in the New York Times, Nicholas D. Kristof called talk about a military strike on Iran a consensus rather than a debate,... Read more | An Israeli intelligence agent said that contrary to common belief, Israel's renowned secret service, Mossad, was "not assassinating people that easy... Read more | US government officials requested that an American private security firm contact Syrian opposition figures in Turkey to see “how they can help in... Read more | Stratfor emails which are part of the Global Intelligence Files release by WikiLeaks imply that the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad has...
Read more Top Google execs, including the company’s CEO and one of Barack Obama’s major presidential campaign donors Eric Schmidt, informed the intelligence... Read more | The emails, dated 2 May 2007, show discussions between Fred Burton, Stratfor’s vice-president of counter-terrorism, and analysts in regards to the... Read more | Read more | Anonymous' Stratfor hack outs intelligence officials across the world. Inside the hacking of Stratfor: the FBI's case against Antisec member Anarchaos. On December 6, 2011, a hacker using the handle "sup_g" private-messaged Hector Xavier Monsegur, otherwise known as "Sabu," on Anonymous's IRC server to tell him of a server he had gained access to. But "sup_g"—alleged by the government to be Jeremy Hammond—didn't know that the whole conversation was being logged by the FBI, and that Monsegur had turned confidential informant. "Yo, you round?
Working on this new target. " The target was the server of Stratfor, the Austin-based global intelligence company that would soon become synonymous with the hacker phrase, "pwned. " Over the course of the Anonymous cell Antisec's hacking and exploiting of the company's IT infrastructure, the group of hackers would expose credit card and other personal information of over 60,000 Stratfor customers and a vast archive of e-mail correspondence between the company's employees and customers in the private and government sectors. And it all started with a control panel hack. Getting nailed.
Stratfor emails reveal secret, widespread TrapWire surveillance system. Trapwire. Trapwire August 10th, 2012 Via: Privatepaste 1, 2: From: Justin Ferguson I’m not entirely sure how this is new so to speak, they’ve had this capability for years from the ‘trapwire’ system (trapwire.com formerly abraxas applications– a subdivision of intelligence contractor abraxas and staffed almost exclusively by ex-CIA, see page 137 of ‘spies for hire’). Per the stratfor email dump, the trapwire system contains functionality like facial recognition and is installed at every HVT in the continental US, in addition to Ottawa and Canada– but confirmed in LA, NYC, NJ, DC, Las Vegas, et cetera. It’s essentially a system setup to detect surveillance, so if you’ve ever taken a picture of basically anything ‘important’ you probably flagged a ‘suspicious activity report’ (SAR).
It’s logged to a central database and then cross-site reports are disseminated. Best Regards, Justin N. Cheers. - salesforce, google, DHS institute. What to Make of the TrapWire Story. Some of the Wikileaks-fueled swirl of stories about the TrapWire program appear to have been overhyped, as my colleague Kade Crockford of the ACLU of Massachusetts noted in her excellent roundup of the story yesterday. Others writing about the program have followed suit. But let’s not overcompensate for the hype and get too world-weary and cynical here; while many questions remain about this program, it does raise some very significant issues.
And it does deserve a high level of attention and concern. We do know the program combines several elements that are each deeply problematic: • Suspicious activity reports (SARs) . • Data mining. . • The surveillance-industrial complex. But I think the most novel issue raised by TrapWire is the program’s video surveillance component. This week, 500 surveillance cameras were activated on the NYC subway system to focus on pre-operational terrorist surveillance. But it is still not clear what is going on. Trapwire and data mining: What we know. These days every news cycle brings us more thoroughly disturbing reasons to be concerned about pervasive digital monitoring in the United States. This week things got extra interesting with the revelation of an enormous, shadowy surveillance company with deep ties to the CIA: Trapwire exploded on the surveillance scene like a bat out of hell.
And people are justifiably freaked out about it. But people are also publishing a lot of information that seems to have appeared out of the ether, grounded in no documentation whatsoever. There is no need to speculate or conjure surveillance bogeymen where they do not exist. The documented facts speak loudly enough. Furthermore, we don’t even have to look to pre-crime, globally networked spook software like Trapwire to be concerned about where we stand vis a vis privacy rights and government powers. On the targeting of political anarchists: “Political Convictions? In other words, we are in a rough spot, Trapwire or no Trapwire. Known knowns. Mossad Doing Business with Saudi Arabia: Stratfor Source. The emails, dated 2 May 2007, show discussions between Fred Burton, Stratfor’s vice-president of counter-terrorism, and analysts in regards to the alleged secret Saudi-Israeli intelligence alliance. The email exchange also shows that Stratfor execs considered pursuing their own business relationship with the Saudi monarchy or, as Burton called them, “sleezy arsehole ragheads.”
Burton forwarded a short message to the general analyst email list which recounted HUMINT (human intelligence) on the alleged secret deal. The source claimed that Mossad offered covert assistance to the Saudis with “intelligence collection and advice on Iran.” The city of Nicosia in Cyprus was cited in the email “as a primary transit hub into Riyadh.” Additionally, the source advised Burton that the Saudis “are playing both sides of the fence – with the jihadists and the Israelis – for fear that the US does not have a handle on either.”