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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.
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