Stratfor in Asange's sites?

[oddlots]

Wikileaks has announced a massive document dump of e-mails obtained from Stratfor, which it says demonstrates widespread corruption and even insider trading.
As with its last major document release – the “diplomatic cables” – the organization is working with major press organisations to drip-feed the documents to the public. The five million e-mails to be provided by Wikileaks cover, it claims, everything from informants and payoffs to “payment laundering” techniques.

Wikileaks says the emails also demonstrate the US government’s campaign against it, claiming that the Stratfor documents include “more than 4,000 emails mentioning Wikileaks or Julian Assange”.

If the cables are correct, Stratfor’s informants are paid either through pre-paid credit cards or via Swiss bank accounts. Wikileaks also accuses Stratfor of planning to use its intelligence-gathering to underpin a fund to be known as StratCap.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02...tfor_doc_dump/

h/t Naked Capitalism

[don]

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At the London news conference, Mr. Assange said the Stratfor statement seemed to confirm the advice that a senior figure in the company offered in one of the exposed e-mails: “admit nothing, deny everything, make counteraccusations.”

[metalman]

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At the London news conference, Mr. Assange said the Stratfor statement seemed to confirm the advice that a senior figure in the company offered in one of the exposed e-mails: “admit nothing, deny everything, make counteraccusations.”

anyone besides me think stratfor is done for?

'The private intelligence network of Stratfor was similar to that of any Government intelligence agency – it was based on private informants in governments of countries, companies and journalists. They were paid through slush funds, some of which were illegal based on US laws. Of course Stratfor was protected by its close contacts with the US agencies.'

not anymore...

[doom&gloom]

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anyone besides me think stratfor is done for?

'The private intelligence network of Stratfor was similar to that of any Government intelligence agency – it was based on private informants in governments of countries, companies and journalists. They were paid through slush funds, some of which were illegal based on US laws. Of course Stratfor was protected by its close contacts with the US agencies.'

not anymore...

I think you can safely stick a fork in it and call it. The amount of "confidential" leaks that are gonna come out will mean none of those people will ever deal with Stratfor again.

[ProdigyofZen]

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Yes Stratfor is starting a hedge fund called stratcap using their "expert" knowledge of political events. At least that is what George Friedman and Shea Morenz told me when I met with both of them for 2 hours in mid january.

What I find concerning is that I was tryin to speak with Friedman regarding the hyperinflation occurring in iran due to the central bank sanctions put on by Obama on dec 31st and his reply was " what iran isn't experiencing hyperinflation "
I said okay but their Iranian toman is at the official rate of 14000 to the dollar but is trading on the black market at over 22000 to the dollar that sounds like hyperinflation to me. He really didn't have an answer.

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i used to subscribe to stratfor. i found their economic analyses shallow, parroting the conventional wisdom.

[ProdigyofZen]

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Well they are now offering everything for free . Buy my company gets their subscription. I would never pay for it myself.

[jiimbergin]

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i used to subscribe to stratfor. i found their economic analyses shallow, parroting the conventional wisdom.

same here

[c1ue]

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No mention yet that the other founder - not Friedman - is Goldman Sachs?

Seems like my - as well as many other's - opinions on Stratfor were spot on.

[Thailandnotes]

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The rest is a good laugh...

Yesterday I received an email from Stratfor CEO and founder George Friedman. "Deplorable, unfortunate and illegal," he thundered.

Having had our property stolen, we will not be victimised twice by submitting to questions about them.

The release of these emails is, however, a direct attack on Stratfor. This is another attempt to silence and intimidate the company, and one we reject. As you can see, emails sent to many people about my resignation were clearly forged.

It's the most exciting correspondence I've ever received from Stratfor.


http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-02-2...criber/3859418

[Prazak]

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It will be interesting to see whether any Foreign Corrupt Practices Act prosecutions come out of this. The FCPA is very selectively enforced but on occasion they'll string up some unfortunate monkey to frighten the rest of us monkeys. Seems like a few smoking guns might be buried in those emails, maybe too obvious to ignore. No doubt Friedman's lawyered up.

[Verrocchio]

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In addition to the unwelcome exposure of the information contained in Stratfor's internal email messages, they must have been terribly embarrassed by their evidently weak cyber defenses.

[cbr]

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let's get real; i like itulip and generally think it is a source of useful analysis. but if Stratfor were useless maxwell smarts, just duplicative of other media, they would not have been targeted in this fashion.

and their economic analysis, while not as deep, has so far been more a match with results over the last four or five years than itulip or leap 2020 for instance.

[ProdigyofZen]

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huh what? I dont think I have seen stratfor say to buy gold or to get out of the stock market or to get out of real estate before it collapsed.

Maybe you work for stratfor?

[c1ue]

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let's get real; i like itulip and generally think it is a source of useful analysis. but if Stratfor were useless maxwell smarts, just duplicative of other media, they would not have been targeted in this fashion.

and their economic analysis, while not as deep, has so far been more a match with results over the last four or five years than itulip or leap 2020 for instance.

Perhaps you could provide some examples of Stratfor's good calls, because I sure can't remember any.

I do remember how extremely poor their 'analysis' of the ex-Soviet Union areas were, ranging from idiotic and wrong analysis of the Ukraine, to Georgia's conflict with Russia, to how Chechnya would turn out, and so on and so forth.

But as I haven't looked at anything they've said in 18 months, perhaps Stratfor was more accurate regarding the Arab Spring and Libya.