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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.

## RE: S3* - MESA/CT/MIL - WikiLeaks posts huge encrypted file to Web

Released on 2012-02-29 03:00 GMT

Email-ID | 1176673
Date | 2010-08-05 22:28:10
From | scott.stewart@stratfor.com
To | analysts@stratfor.com
List-Name | analysts@stratfor.com

Oh, I'm not saying we shouldn't watch it.
We just need to watch it with a jaundiced eye and not automatically buy
into the hype...
From: analysts-bounces@stratfor.com [mailto:analysts-bounces@stratfor.com]
On Behalf Of Marc Lanthemann
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 4:20 PM
To: Analyst List
Subject: Re: S3* - MESA/CT/MIL - WikiLeaks posts huge encrypted file to
Web
I agree with your that it's most likely not exciting info. Wikileak's
become a world recognized brand after the leak and they probably want to
keep it that way by building up the mystique.
However, I think it doesn't hurt to keep an eye on this and consider all
possible scenarios.
On 8/5/10 3:13 PM, scott stewart wrote:
I think you may be giving the material more weight than it deserves. The
stuff released to date is pretty tame and lame. I can't imagine the last
15,000 documents being qualitatively much different if they came from the
same source.
Therefore, I think this is more of a publicity stunt than anything. I
wonder how much money Assange has raised through this "ordeal" of being
persecuted by the USG?
From: analysts-bounces@stratfor.com [mailto:analysts-bounces@stratfor.com]
On Behalf Of Marc Lanthemann
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 4:06 PM
To: Analyst List
Subject: Re: S3* - MESA/CT/MIL - WikiLeaks posts huge encrypted file to
Web
I came up with some more thoughts/points while discussing this with Sean:
o The general guess is that Insurance contains the remaining 15k Afghan
docs, but it could either be something more damaging or total bluff.
o In any case the US govt wouldn't want to risk public dissemination.
Which means they can't really arrest him, kill him or send him to a
relaxation spa in Cuba or Poland.
o Therefore Assange's life/liberty is somewhat important for US national
security.
o Pushing this reasoning forward, killing Assange would be detrimental
for the US.
o I don't know who would benefit from further leaks and political
shitstorms in the US, but that person/government may have it in them
to cap Assange.
o The US needs to make sure nobody gets to him.
o All in all, not a particularly brilliant self-preservation move from
Assange.
On 8/5/10 2:25 PM, Marc Lanthemann wrote:
FYI, talked to some of my CS/hacker-savvy friends. The file is encrypted
using a 256 bit AES encryption, which is what the US government uses for
classified documentation. There are no known weaknesses to this encryption
and it would take longer than the lifetime of the sun to brute-force the
code using all the supercomputers currently in existence. You'd need a
super secret quantum computer or the biggest breakthrough in
cryptoanalysis ever.
Bottom line we'll only get access to the files when Wikileaks feels like
releasing the password. This has been making lots of waves in the
hacker/nerd community, and I spent some time browsing hacker forums for
ideas. Serious people (as serious as webforum hackers can be) are talking
about a sort of dead man trigger, password must be entered by Assange
every X hours/days or the password is released.
In any case, NSA is going to get a headache over this. It might even be a
bluff and turn out to be Assange's randomly encrypted copy of Bambi.
On 8/5/10 1:31 PM, Michael Wilson wrote:
no idea what is really on
WikiLeaks posts huge encrypted file to Web
The Associated Press
Thursday, August 5, 2010; 1:30 PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/05/AR2010080504526.html
LONDON -- Online whistle-blower WikiLeaks has posted a huge encrypted file
named "Insurance" to its website, sparking speculation that those behind
the organization may be prepared to release more classified information if
authorities interfere with them.
Bloggers have noted that it's 20 times larger than the batch of 77,000
secret U.S. military documents about Afghanistan that WikiLeaks dumped
onto the Web last month. Contributors to tech sites such as CNet have
speculated that the file could be a way of threatening to disclose more
information if WikiLeaks' staffers were detained or if the site was
attacked, although the organization itself has kept mum.
"As a matter of policy, we do not discuss security procedures," WikiLeaks
said Thursday in an e-mail response to questions about the 1.4 gigabyte
file.
Editor-in-chief Julian Assange was a bit more expansive - if equally
cryptic - in his response to the same line of questioning in a television
interview with independent U.S. news network Democracy Now!
"I think it's better that we don't comment on that," Assange said,
according to the network's transcript of the interview. "But, you know,
one could imagine in a similar situation that it might be worth ensuring
that important parts of history do not disappear."
Assange, a former computer hacker, has expressed concern over his safety
in the past, complaining of surveillance and telling interviewers that
he's been warned away from visiting the United States.
Since the publication of the Afghanistan files, at least one activist
associated with the site has been questioned by U.S. authorities.
Programmer Jacob Appelbaum, who filled in for Assange at a conference last
month, was reportedly detained and questioned about the site by officials
after arriving in the U.S. on a flight from the Netherlands.
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U.S. officials have had harsh words for Assange, with Adm. Michael Mullen,
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, saying he and his colleagues had
disclosed potentially life-threatening information and might already have
blood on their hands.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has refused to rule out the
possibility that Assange could be a target into the military's
investigation into the leak.
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Michael Wilson
Watch Officer, STRAFOR
Office: (512) 744 4300 ex. 4112
Email: michael.wilson@stratfor.com
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Michael Wilson
Watch Officer, STRAFOR
Office: (512) 744 4300 ex. 4112
Email: michael.wilson@stratfor.com
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Marc Lanthemann
Research Intern
Mobile: +1 609-865-5782
Strategic Forecasting, Inc.
www.stratfor.com
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Marc Lanthemann
Research Intern
Mobile: +1 609-865-5782
Strategic Forecasting, Inc.
www.stratfor.com
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Marc Lanthemann
Research Intern
Mobile: +1 609-865-5782
Strategic Forecasting, Inc.
www.stratfor.com