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# The Global Intelligence Files

On Monday February 27th, 2012, WikiLeaks began publishing The Global Intelligence Files, over five million e-mails from the Texas headquartered "global intelligence" company Stratfor. The e-mails date 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 Defence Intelligence Agency. The emails show Stratfor's web of informers, pay-off structure, payment laundering techniques and psychological methods.

## [alpha] source evaluations - must read

Released on 2012-02-27 01:00 GMT

Email-ID | 901056
Date | 2011-08-10 04:51:43
From | richmond@stratfor.com
To | watchofficer@stratfor.com, alpha@stratfor.com
List-Name | alpha@stratfor.com

This is the first in several emails on our sourcing and insight
collections. To begin with, we will be meeting with everyone who has
sources to evaluate them on the criteria and scoring below. I will be in
touch with everyone who has a source list within the next few weeks. If
you have sources but no source list, then you need to create one. I will
give details on this in a separate email.
All of those who need to update or create their list need to do so by
Monday and send them to both myself and Anya. If you need a source code
number range, email me and I will get this set up for you so you can start
the process. For analysts with compiled lists with uncoded sources,
please code these ASAP unless they are genuinely a one-off and then give
an explanation.
In the meantime, it would be best if everyone with sources start to
evaluate each source by looking at least the past five insights and start
to score them based on the criteria and scoring below so you are not
scrambling when we are ready to set up an evaluation with you. Also, from
here on out, start to think about sources with these criteria and scoring
in mind. This will be the first of many periodic insight evaluations so
its best for everyone to get acquainted with this method.
For Watch Officers, please also start to think along these lines when you
are reading insight. In the future we will also look to you as objective
source evaluators. Also, please start to read the insight carefully and
comment on it the same as you would a piece from OS. As Reva said in our
meeting today, we are starting to refocus on intel and insight. As Watch
Officers, you are well placed to comment on any anomalies presented in
insights and compare it with what is being said in the media.
If there are any questions or concerns, please ask.
Jen
Sourcing Criteria
The following are the proposed criteria for analyzing both sources and
insight.
1. Source Timeliness
2. Source Accessibility/Position
3. Source Availability
4. Insight Credibility
5. Insight Uniqueness
Source Timeliness: This is the average grade on how long this particular
source turns around tasks and replies to inquiries. It may change but is
more of a static indicator.
Source Accessibility: Accessibility weighs the source's position to have
certain knowledge in a particular field. So, for example, if we are
looking for energy insight and the source is an official in an energy
agency, his or her Accessibility would be ranked higher than if s/he was a
banker giving insight on energy. While we would welcome a banker giving
his/her insight, a good source may not have a high accessibility ranking
if they aren't in a position to offer reliable insight on a certain topic.
The source's access to decision makers, specific training or education in
the desired topic area, specific knowledge of events/situations/incidents
can also be considered.
Source Availability: How often can we go to this source? Are they
someone we can tap daily, weekly, monthly, yearly?
Insight Credibility: This is our assessment of the veracity of the
insight offered. Here we need to consider whether or not this is
disinformation, speculation, correct data or knowledgeable interpretation.
Any bias that the source is displaying or any specific viewpoints or
personal background the source is using in the assessment provided should
also be considered.
Insight Uniqueness: Is this insight something that could be found in OS?
If it is but the analysis of the information is unique, it would still
have a high uniqueness ranking. Or, if it is concrete data, but is
something that is only offered to industry insiders, i.e. stats that
aren't published but that aren't secret, it would still have a high
uniqueness score.
Scoring
All of the above factors will be scored on an A-F scale, with A being
exemplary and F being useless.
Source Timeliness:
A = turnaround within 24 hours
B = turnaround within 48 hours
C = turnaround within a week
D = turnaround within a month
F = lucky to receive a reply at all
Source Accessibility:
A = Someone with intimate knowledge of the particular insight
B = Someone within the industry but whose knowledge of the topic is not
exact (e.g. if we were asking someone in the oil industry about natural
gas)
C = Someone working close to the industry who doesn't have intimate
knowledge of a particular topic but can speak to it intelligently (e.g. a
financial consultant asked to gauge the movement of the stock market)
D = Someone who may know a country but doesn't have any concrete insight
into a particular topic but can offer rumors and discussions heard on the
topic
F = Someone who has no knowledge of a particular industry at all
Source Availability:
A = Available pretty much whenever
B = Can tap around once a week
C = Can tap about once a month
D = Can tap only several times a year
F = Very limited availability
Insight Credibility:
A = We can take this information to the bank
B = Good insight but maybe not entirely precise
C = Insight is only partially true
D = There may be some interest in the insight, but it is mostly false or
just pure speculation.
F = Likely to be disinformation
Insight Uniqueness:
A = Can't be found anywhere else
B = Can only be found in limited circles
C = Insight can be found in OS, but the source has an interesting
take/analysis
D = Insight can be found in OS, but still may not be common knowledge
F = Insight is accessible in numerous locations
--
Jennifer Richmond
STRATFOR
China Director
Director of International Projects
(512) 422-9335
richmond@stratfor.com
www.stratfor.com