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# The Global Intelligence Files

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## Re: For Comment: Wikileaks and the State Department Documents

Released on 2012-03-01 01:00 GMT

Email-ID | 1024771
Date | 2010-11-28 13:57:20
From | bokhari@stratfor.com
To | analysts@stratfor.com
List-Name | analysts@stratfor.com

When I was doing research in grad school as part of a year long study of
the history of KSA, I went through volumes of declassified memos sent by
the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh. One such memo, from 1947, was in response to a
query from DoS about an incident of food poisoning at a royal party where
a prince had died. The memo explained that the partying folks ran out of
booze and began to brew an in house cocktail, which was the cause of the
poisoning. That memo would have caused an uproar back then in the nascent
KSA and King Abdul-aziz would have had some major shit to deal with.
Luckily for the Saudis, it was a world in which there was much more
tighter control on official communications and the kingdom existed in the
dark ages. Today where even terrorists have access to advanced means of
communication, any such revelations could have major consequences.
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From: "scott stewart" <scott.stewart@stratfor.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 06:28:40 -0600 (CST)
To: <friedman@att.blackberry.net>; 'Analysts'<analysts@stratfor.com>
ReplyTo: Analyst List <analysts@stratfor.com>
Cc: 'George Friedman'<gfriedman@stratfor.com>
Subject: RE: For Comment: Wikileaks and the State Department Documents
Copy. Nate is going to walk this through edit for me this morning so we
can get it out.
From: George Friedman [mailto:friedman@att.blackberry.net]
Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2010 7:27 AM
To: scott stewart; Analysts
Cc: 'George Friedman'
Subject: Re: For Comment: Wikileaks and the State Department Documents
Exactly right. We don't know what's there. But we know this much.
Ambassadors met foreign ministers and gave them specifics of what to
expect. So what they expect caused them to take significant steps.
Bottom line. We don't know what's coming. Let's just be ready.
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From: "scott stewart" <scott.stewart@stratfor.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 06:23:22 -0600 (CST)
To: <friedman@att.blackberry.net>; 'Analysts'<analysts@stratfor.com>
Cc: 'George Friedman'<gfriedman@stratfor.com>
Subject: RE: For Comment: Wikileaks and the State Department Documents
Thought of this way, this is wildly unpredictable. We just don't know
what's there but washington is prepping everyone for the worst because dc
is scared. This could certainly end the careers of us diplomats in several
countries. We just don't know.
--But DC also went hog wild with damage control efforts for the last two
releases (they had that huge interagency task force), and those releases
were not nearly as damaging as we were initially led to believe. Remember
that the media outlets who have been given early access to these documents
really want to hype this for the ad revenue potential. They will beat this
horse for all it is worth.
Because of that, I want to keep this piece heavily caveated until we see
the goods.
From: George Friedman [mailto:friedman@att.blackberry.net]
Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2010 5:07 AM
To: scott stewart; Analysts
Cc: 'George Friedman'
Subject: Re: For Comment: Wikileaks and the State Department Documents
I think it may go deeper than that. It may reveal that some negotiations
were not carried out by the us in good faith, that the us was supporting
anti government factions in some countries, and so on. The view in europe
is that the leaks could create a public uproar that will force short term
policy changes. Apart from the personal impact there is a domestic
political issue in these countries.
One of the oddities of our classification system is the focus on sources.
Opinions are not seen as nearly as sensitive as hard intelligence. But in
this case the opinions of american diplomats, however its significance
will be viewed by washington officials will be seen in a very different
way by local media, public and politicians. It will be used against the
united states.
Imagine that memos from the embassy in poland ridicules the polish efforts
in afghanistan. Might have a low clearance level in dc, but could threaten
a government that has made its close relations with the us its platform. A
memo treating polish soldiers as incompetent would not have a high
secutity clearance if it was simply written by a second secretary, but
could explode us-polish relations or bring down the government. People
will believe this the american view. Don't use this as an example.
So it isn't simply the family getting to read what uncle charley thinks of
them. It is everyone the family knows at their work, their church and
bowling league learning that a member of his family thinks uncle charley
is bipolar, and likes young boys. Oh, and that he plans to get uncle
charley into a deal where we take his money because he is too dumb to
protect himself.
Thought of this way, this is wildly unpredictable. We just don't know
what's there but washington is prepping everyone for the worst because dc
is scared. This could certainly end the careers of us diplomats in several
countries. We just don't know.
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From: "scott stewart" <scott.stewart@stratfor.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 20:53:51 -0600 (CST)
To: 'Analyst List'<analysts@stratfor.com>
Cc: 'George Friedman'<gfriedman@stratfor.com>
Subject: RE: For Comment: Wikileaks and the State Department Documents
To explain the blow-back potential of this release to my wife, I told her
that it is like us going to a family reunion and then having her tell all
my family members all the observations and comments I've made about them
over the years to her, thinking all my comments and observations would be
held in confidence.
Everybody in the world might know that Uncle Herb is crazy or Aunt Betty
is a lush (heck, they might even recognize the problems themselves), but
if they learn you`ve said such things about them, they are likely to
become quite offended, and maybe even cut you out of any inheritance.
This is the kind of thing that can hurt people's pride. Same thing with
these notes from meetings with foreign leaders.
From: analysts-bounces@stratfor.com [mailto:analysts-bounces@stratfor.com]
On Behalf Of scott stewart
Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2010 9:33 PM
To: 'Analyst List'
Cc: 'George Friedman'
Subject: For Comment: Wikileaks and the State Department Documents
Wikileaks and the State Department Documents
The latest batch of classified U.S. government documents that is being
released by Wikileaks would appear to be very different from the others.
Like the [link
http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20101027_wikileaks_and_culture_classification]
last two large groups of documents, this one also was allegedly downloaded
by a U.S. Army Soldier, PFC Bradley Manning, from the U.S. government's
Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNet). SIPRNet is a network
used to distribute classified but not particularly sensitive information
classified at the secret level and below. However, while the last two
installments of documents involved battlefield reports from U.S. forces in
Iraq and Afghanistan, this latest group allegedly involves some 260,000
messages authored by the U.S Department of State, many of which appear to
have been sent by U.S. Embassies and Consulates abroad.
State Department messages are called cables in State Department parlance,
a reference that hearkens back to the days when embassies really did send
cables rather than satellite transmissions or email messages via SIPRNet.
The cables were intentionally placed on SIPRNet, under an information
sharing initiative known as "net-centric diplomacy" that was enacted in
the shadow of the criticism levied against the U.S. government for not
sharing intelligence information that perhaps could have prevented the
9/11 attacks. Net-Centric diplomacy ensured that even though Manning was a
low-level U.S. Army soldier, he had access to hundreds of thousands of
State Department cables by virtue of his access to SIPRNet.
It is important to understand that SIPRNet only contains information
classified at the Secret level and below. Because of this, it will not
contain highly classified information pertaining to U.S. Government
intelligence operations, methods or sources. This information also will
not contain the most sensitive Diplomatic information passed between the
State Department Headquarters in Foggy Bottom and it constellation of
diplomatic posts overseas. The fact that much of the diplomatic message
traffic being released was unclassified and the most heavily classified
was at the Secret level does not mean that the release will not cause real
pain or embarrassment for the U.S. Government. In fact it is quite
possible that these documents will do far more to damage U.S. foreign
relations that the last two batches of documents released by Wikileaks.
Some of the documents reportedly contain the minutes held with foreign
leaders. Such reports may contain gossip, opinion and even evaluations of
the intellect and mental state of foreign leaders by U.S. diplomats. While
such details are useful to keep Foggy Bottom informed about the progress
of such meetings and negotiations, revealing them to the public could
prove quite embarrassing, as could reports of the U.S. government meeting
with foreign opposition or militant groups.
We have received reports that U.S. ambassadors and their diplomatic staff
have been meeting with representatives of foreign governments over the
past several days to prepare them for the release of these documents.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has also reportedly been busy by phone.
The U.S. government could be conducting this preparation out of an
abundance of caution, and this release of documents could prove to be as
much of a bust as the last two. It is, however, possible that this batch
of documents will prove to be more incendiary and will provoke a much more
dramatic international reaction. Like the rest of the world, we are
awaiting the release of the documents so that we can attempt to make that
assessment.
Scott Stewart
STRATFOR
Office: 814 967 4046
Cell: 814 573 8297
scott.stewart@stratfor.com
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