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<div class="body-copy-v2 fence-body" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.56;" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Muneer Satter, who built the world’s largest family of mezzanine funds at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., is leaving the bank after 24 years, according to two people familiar with his plans.Satter, 50, is departing to spend more time with his family after commuting for the past 12 years from his home in Chicago to Goldman Sachs’s headquarters in New York, the people said, asking not to be named because his move hasn’t been announced publicly....
=<a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/stratfor-strategies-how-to-win-the-media-war-against-grassroots-activists/166078/">https://www.mintpressnews.com/stratfor-strategies-how-to-win-the-media-war-against-grassroots-activists/166078/</a><div class="entry-content" itemprop="text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/divide-and-conquer-unpacking-stratfors-rise-to-power/165933/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 1 of this exclusive Mint Press News investigation</a> examined the strategies employed by Stratfor precursor Pagan International. So named for its founder Rafael Pagan, corporate clients hired the company with the aim of defusing grassroots movements mobilized against them around the world.Part 2 takes a closer look at how Pagan International’s successor, Mongoven, Biscoe & Duchin (MBD), revised and refined these strategies — and how what began as a corporate public-relations firm evolved into the private intelligence agency Stratfor, which wages information warfare against today’s activists and organizers.]Rafael Pagan — who died in 1993 — was not invited to be a part of his former associate’s new firm, Mongoven, Biscoe & Duchin. His tactic of conquering and dividing activist movements and isolating the “fanatic activist leaders” lived on, though, through his former business partner, Jack Mongoven.Mongoven teamed up with Alvin Biscoe and Ronald Duchin to create MBD in 1988. While “Biscoe appears to have been a largely silent partner at MBD,” <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Alvin_Biscoe" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">according to the Center for Media and Democracy</a>, Mongoven and Duchin played public-facing starring roles for the firm.Duchin, like Pagan, had a military background. A graduate of the U.S. Army War College and “<a href="http://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/?viewemailid=1656229" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">one of the original members of [Army] DELTA</a>” — part of the broader <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/160332/jsoc-black-ops-force-took-down-bin-laden" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Joint Special Operations Command that killed Osama Bin Laden</a> — Duchin had jobs as a special assistant to the secretary of defense and as spokesman for Veterans for Foreign Wars prior to coming to Pagan.Duchin served as <a href="http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/charlese.htm" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">head of the Pentagon’s news division</a> during “<a href="http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA402471" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Operation Eagle Claw</a>,” President Jimmy Carter’s failed 1980 mission to use special forces to capture the hostages held in Iran.Referred to by The Atlantic as the “<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2006/05/the-desert-one-debacle/304803/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Desert One Debacle</a>” in a story <a href="http://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/?viewemailid=37294" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Duchin served as a key confidential source for</a> — as revealed in an email in the “Global Intelligence Files” announcing Duchin’s 2010 death — “Eagle Claw” ended with eight U.S. troops dying, four wounded, one helicopter destroyed, and President Carter’s reputation in the tank. The failed and lethal mission served as the <a href="http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA402471" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">impetus for the creation of the U.S. Special Operations</a>.Largely avoiding the limelight while <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/155260050/Duchin-Gets-Gig-at-Pagan-International" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">working as Pagan’s vice president for Issue management and strategy</a> — the brains of the operation — Duchin became a notorious figure among dedicated critical observers of the public relations industry while co-heading MBD. During MBD’s 15 years of existence, its clients included <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mongoven,Biscoe%26_Duchin#Tobacco_Industry" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Big Tobacco</a>, <a href="http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/11506" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">the chemical industry</a>, <a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=266&dat=19970215&id=rPArAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1WkFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4922,3993041" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Big Agriculture</a> and probably many other industries never identified due to MBD’s secretive nature.MBD worked on behalf of Big Tobacco to fend off any and all regulatory efforts aimed in its direction. <a href="http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/11/2/112.full.pdf+html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Philip Morris paid Jack Mongoven $85,000</a> for his intelligence-gathering prowess in 1993.“<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1805008/pdf/0970419.pdf" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Get Government Off Our Back</a>,” an RJ Reynolds front group created in 1994 by MBD for the <a href="http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/11/2/112.full.pdf+html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">price of $14,000 per month</a>, serves as a case in point of the type of work MBD was hired to do by Big Tobacco.“The firm has developed initiatives for RJ Reynolds that advocate pro-tobacco goals through outside organizations; among other projects, the firm organized veterans organizations to oppose the workplace smoking regulation proposed by OSHA,” <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1805008/?report=classic" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">explains a 2007 study appearing in the American Journal of Public Health</a>. “[It] was created to combat increasing numbers of proposed federal and state regulations on the use and sale of tobacco products.”Paralleling the Koch Family Foundations-funded <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/koch-industries/americans-for-prosperity-found/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Americans for Prosperity</a> groups of today, “Get Government Off Our Back” held rallies nationwide in March 1995 as part of “<a href="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/pso40d00/pdf?search=%22get%20government%20off%20our%20back%20regulatory%20revolt%20month%22" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Regulatory Revolt Month</a>.”“Get Government Off Our Back” <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1805008/?report=classic" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">dovetailed perfectly</a> with the Republican Party’s 1994 “Contract with America” that <a href="http://articles.philly.com/1995-02-25/news/25705748_1_duck-hunters-new-rules-health-and-safety" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">froze new federal regulations</a>. The text of the “Contract” matched “Get Government Off Our Back” “nearly verbatim,” according to the American Journal of Public Health study. <h3 dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">‘Radicals, Idealists, Realists, Opportunists’</h3>While its client work was noteworthy, the formula Duchin created to divide and conquer activist movements — a regurgitation of what he learned while working under the mentorship of Rafael Pagan — has stood the test of time. It is still employed to this day by Stratfor.Duchin replaced Pagan’s “fanatic activist leaders” with “radicals” and created a three-step formula to divide and conquer activists by breaking them up into four subtypes, as described in a <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/155326255/Ron-Duchin-Conquer-and-Divide-National-Cattleman-s-Association" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">1991 speech delivered to the National Cattleman’s Association</a> titled, “Take an Activist Apart and What Do You Have? And How Do You Deal with Him/Her?”The subtypes: “radicals, idealists, realists and opportunists.”Radical activists “want to change the system; have underlying socio/political motives’ and see multinational corporations as ‘inherently evil,’” <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/155326255/Ron-Duchin-Conquer-and-Divide-National-Cattleman-s-Association" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">explained Duchin</a>. “These organizations do not trust the … federal, state and local governments to protect them and to safeguard the environment. They believe, rather, that individuals and local groups should have direct power over industry … I would categorize their principal aims … as social justice and political empowerment.”The “idealist” is easier to deal with, according to Duchin’s analysis.“Idealists…want a perfect world…Because of their intrinsic altruism, however, … [they] have a vulnerable point,” <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/155326255/Ron-Duchin-Conquer-and-Divide-National-Cattleman-s-Association" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">he told the audience</a>. “If they can be shown that their position is in opposition to an industry … and cannot be ethically justified, they [will] change their position.”The two easiest subtypes to join the corporate side of the fight are the “realists” and the “opportunists.” By definition, an “opportunist” takes the opportunity to side with the powerful for career gain, Duchin explained, and has skin in the game for “visibility, power [and] followers.”The realist, by contrast, is more complex but the most important piece of the puzzle, says Duchin.“[Realists are able to] live with trade-offs; willing to work within the system; not interested in radical change; pragmatic. The realists should always receive the highest priority in any strategy dealing with a public policy issue.”Duchin outlined a corresponding three-step strategy to “deal with” these four activist subtypes. First, isolate the radicals. Second, “cultivate” the idealists and “educate” them into becoming realists. And finally, co-opt the realists into agreeing with industry.“If your industry can successfully bring about these relationships, the credibility of the radicals will be lost and opportunists can be counted on to share in the final policy solution,” Duchin outlined in closing his speech. <h3 dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Bringing the ‘Duchin Formula’ to Stratfor</h3><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Alvin_Biscoe" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Alvin Biscoe passed away in 1998</a> and <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/155264654/PR-Strategist-John-Mongoven-Dies" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Jack Mongoven passed away in 2000</a>. Just a few years later, MBD — now only Ronald Duchin and Jack’s son, Bartholomew or “Bart” — <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/24/AR2011012405821.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">merged with Stratfor in 2003</a>.A book by John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton — “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Trust-Us-Were-Experts-Manipulates/dp/1585421391" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Trust Us, We’re Experts!</a>” — explains that MBD promotional literature boasted that the firm kept “extensive files [on] forces for change [which] can often include activist and public interest groups, churches, unions and/or academia.”“A typical dossier includes an organization’s historical background, biographical information on key personnel, funding sources, organizational structure and affiliations, and a ‘characterization’ of the organization aimed at identifying potential ways to co-opt or marginalize the organization’s impact on public policy debates,” the authors proceeded to explain.MBD’s “extensive files” on “forces for change” soon would morph into Stratfor’s “Global Intelligence Files” after the merger.What’s clear in sifting through the “Global Intelligence Files” documents, which were obtained by WikiLeaks as a result of Jeremy Hammond’s December 2011 hack of Stratfor, is that it was a marriage made in heaven for MBD and Stratfor.The “Duchin formula” has become a Stratfor mainstay, carried on by Bart Mongoven. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/24/AR2011012405821.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Duchin passed away in 2010</a>.In a <a href="http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/attach/33/33714_Suncor%20Presentation-1210.pdf" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">December 2010 PowerPoint presentation</a> to the oil company Suncor on how best to “deal with” anti-Alberta tar sands activists, Bart Mongoven explains how to do so explicitly utilizing the “radicals, idealists, realists and opportunists” framework. In that presentation, he places the various environmental groups fighting against the tar sands in each category and concludes the presentation by explaining how Suncor can win the war against them.Bart Mongoven described the American Petroleum Institute as his “<a href="http://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/?viewemailid=414076" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">biggest client</a>” in a January 2010 email exchange, lending explanation to his interest in environmental and energy issues.Mongoven also appears to have realized something was off about Chesapeake Energy’s financial support for the Sierra Club, judging by November 2009 <a href="http://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/?viewemailid=413210" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">email</a> <a href="http://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/?viewemailid=404621" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">exchanges</a>. It took “idealists” in the environmental movement a full 2 ½ years to realize the same thing, after <a href="http://science.time.com/2012/02/02/exclusive-how-the-sierra-club-took-millions-from-the-natural-gas-industry-and-why-they-stopped/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Time magazine wrote a major investigation revealing the fiduciary relationship</a> between one of the biggest shale gas “fracking” companies in the U.S. and one of the country’s biggest environmental groups.“The clearest evidence of a financial relationship is the note in the Sierra Club 2008 annual report that <a href="https://www.slideshare.net/secret/Ljl1l6QIa8sprn" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">American Clean Skies Foundation was a financial supporter that year</a>,” <a href="http://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/?viewemailid=413210" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">wrote Mongoven in an email</a> to the National Manufacturing Association’s vice president of communications, Luke Popovich. “According to McClendon, American Clean Skies Foundation was created by Chesapeake and others in 2007.”Bart Mongoven also used the “realist/idealist” paradigm to <a href="http://www.stratfor.com/crucial_year_climate_change_legislation" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">discuss climate change legislation’s chances for passage in a 2007 article</a> on Stratfor’s website.“Realists who support a strong federal regime are drawn to the idea that with most in industry calling for action on climate change, there is no time like the present,” Mongoven wrote. “Idealists, on the other hand, argue that with momentum on their side, there is little that industry could do in the face of a Democratic president and Congress, and therefore time is on the environmentalists’ side. The idealists argue that they have not gone this far only to pass a half-measure, particularly one that does not contain a hard carbon cap.”And how best to deal with “radicals” like Julian Assange, founder and executive director of WikiLeaks, and whistleblower Bradley Manning, who gave WikiLeaks the <a href="http://cablegatesearch.net/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">U.S. State Department diplomatic cables</a>, the <a href="http://wikileaks.org/irq/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Iraq</a> and <a href="http://wikileaks.org/afg/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Afghanistan war logs</a> and the “<a href="http://www.collateralmurder.com/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Collateral Murder</a>” video? Bart Mongoven has a simple solution to “isolate” them, as suggested by Duchin’s formula.“I’m in favor of using whatever trumped up charge is available to get [Assange] and his servers off the streets. And I’d feed that shit head soldier [Bradley Manning] to the first pack of wild dogs I could find,” <a href="http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/389793.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Mongoven wrote in one email exchange revealed by the “Global Intelligence Files</a>.” “Or perhaps just do to him whatever the Iranians are doing to our sources there.”Indeed, the use of “trumped up charges” is often a way the U.S. government deals with radical activists, as demonstrated clearly during the days of the <a href="http://www.freedomarchives.org/Cointelpro.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">FBI’s Counter-Intelligence Program</a> during the 1960s, as well as in modern-day Occupy movement-related cases in <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-plot-against-occupy-20120926http://www.alternet.org/story/155581/has_the_fbi_launched_a_war_of_entrapment_against_the_occupy_movement" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Cleveland</a> and <a href="http://truth-out.org/news/item/17107-revealed-the-story-behind-the-nato-3-domestic-terrorism-arrests" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Chicago</a>.<h3 dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">‘Information economy’s equivalent of guns’</h3>Just days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, The Austin Chronicle published an article on Stratfor that posed the rhetorical question as its title, “<a href="http://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2001-09-14/82940/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Is Knowledge Power?</a>”The answer, simply put: yes.“What Stratfor produces is the information economy’s equivalent of guns: knowledge about the world that can change the world, quickly and irrevocably,” <a href="http://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2001-09-14/82940/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">wrote Michael Erard for The Chronicle</a>. “So if Stratfor succeeds, it’s because more individuals and corporations want access to information that helps them dissect an unstable world — and are willing to pay steady bucks for it.”When it comes down to it, Stauber concurs with the “guns” metaphor and Duchin’s “war” metaphors.“Corporations wage war upon activists to ensure that corporate activities, power, profits and control are not diminished or significantly reformed,” said Stauber. “The burden is on the activists to make fundamental social change in a political environment where the corporate interests dominate both politically and through the corporate media.”Stauber also believes activists have a steep learning curve and are currently being left in the dust by Pagan, MBD, Stratfor and others.“The Pagan/MBD/Stratfor operatives are much more sophisticated about social change than the activists they oppose, they have limitless resources at their disposal, and their goal is relatively simple: make sure that ultimately the activists fail to win fundamental reforms,” he said. “Duchin and Mongoven were ruthless, and I think they were often amused by the naivete, egotism, antics and failures of activists they routinely fooled and defeated. Ultimately, this is war, and the best warriors will win.”One thing’s for certain: Duchin’s legacy lives on through his “formula.”“The 4-step formula is brilliant and has certainly proven itself effective in preventing the democratic reforms we need,” Stauber remarked, bringing us back to where we started in 1982 with Rafael Pagan’s remarks about isolating the “fanatic activist leaders.”This article is the second part of a two-part series on Stratfor. 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bart mcG suncor ppt<a href="https://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/articles/entry/stratfor_provided_energy_industry_with_intel_on_environmental_groups/">https://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/articles/entry/stratfor_provided_energy_industry_with_intel_on_environmental_groups/</a>The <h1 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px 0.75em; line-height: 1.2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Fracking Files: Stratfor Provided Energy Industry with Intel on ProPublica, Environmental Groups</h1><div class="subhead" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Industry’s 2009 fears of a muscular fracking opposition have come to pass</div><div class="article-info article-info-head" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 2em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ADAM FEDERMAN<div class="publish-date" style="box-sizing: border-box;">DECEMBER 10, 2013</div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: -0.75em 0px 0.75em;"><a href="mailto:?subject=The%20Fracking%20Files:%20Stratfor%20Provided%20Energy%20Industry%20with%20Intel%20on%20ProPublica,%20Environmental%20Groups&body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.earthisland.org%2Fjournal%2Findex.php%2Farticles%2Fentry%2Fstratfor_provided_energy_industry_with_intel_on_environmental_groups%2F" title="mail this article to someone" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent; transition: all 200ms ease 0s; padding-left: 1.25em;"><span class="fa fa-envelope" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: 900; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1; text-rendering: auto; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /></a></div>Long before the first anti-fracking bans were passed in North America, the oil and gas industry was taking stock of its adversaries through profiles and briefings produced by <a href="http://www.stratfor.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent; transition: all 200ms ease 0s;">Stratfor</a>, the Austin-based global intelligence company. The company is known for its investigations into activist groups on behalf of some of the world’s largest corporations and government agencies. The documents – part of a massive cache of emails, reports, and communiques published by <a href="http://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/?viewemailid=85474" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent; transition: all 200ms ease 0s;">Wikileaks</a> beginning in early 2012 – reveal an industry concerned about an impending grassroots backlash to the fracking boom. In hindsight, it appears the industry was right to be worried: Today, opposition to oil and gas fracking is one of the most vigorous strands of the larger environmental movement.
proPublica – which was launched in 2008, just as fracking was becoming a public health issue – led the way on the first reporting about the environmental impacts of gas drilling. In 2009 its leading energy reporter, <a href="https://twitter.com/AbrahmL" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent; transition: all 200ms ease 0s;">Abrahm Lustgarten</a>, won a Polk Award for his work “documenting the deadly side effects of hydraulic fracturing.” To date the website has published more than 150 fracking-related articles.The Wikileaks revelations show that the oil and gas industry was especially worried about the first hints of negative publicity. In December 2009 Stratfor drafted a <a href="http://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/?viewemailid=397459" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 200ms ease 0s;">profile</a> of ProPublica, detailing its organizational structure, partnerships with other well-established media outlets like <cite style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Washington Post</cite> and <cite style="box-sizing: border-box;">New York Times</cite>, and sources of funding. Stratfor argues that ProPublica’s work has helped to galvanize public opposition to drilling in the Marcellus Shale. “The growth of the Marcellus shale was not a controversial issue until ProPublica stories given to the <cite style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;">Albany Times-Union</cite> carried the message that, according to ProPublica’s editor in chief, New York was about to ‘put legislative and regulatory protocols into place to give the industry carte blanche to drill wherever it chose.’ Out of this series of articles came the backlash and delays that continue to beset operations in the region."The Stratfor document, which was sent to at least one corporate client, The American Petroleum Institute (API), describes ProPublica as a “realist organization,” but one that is “reflexively anti-corporate.” The authors write: “ProPublica appears to view major corporations and much of government as decidedly opposed to the ‘public interest.’” They also describe the website’s model of partnering with larger media outlets and distributing stories free of charge. Because of the organization’s critical view of corporations, the Stratfor analysts write, “the net effect of these free stories is to tilt coverage of certain issues, especially in local newspapers.”(The document goes on to explain that ProPublica has covered natural gas drilling more closely than just about any other issue, with the possible exception of the financial crisis. Of Lustgarten they write, “Each of the stories he writes contends that the practice [fracking] is far more dangerous to neighbors and the environment than both corporations and government admit. Lustgarten portrays the industry as knowingly misleading the public and using political influence to win beneficial responses from regulators.”)The impetus for the report appears to have come from Walt Retzsch, a senior policy advisor with API. In an internal email, Bart Mongoven, Stratfor’s then-vice president, wrote: “Walt needs to know about ProPublica. He needs whatever we can put together by 5:00. Then by COB Friday, he needs another profile in line with other profiles we have done. I have no context as to why this is coming up now.” In another <a href="http://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/?viewemailid=414076" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 200ms ease 0s;">email</a> Mongoven describes the American Petroleum Institute as “our biggest client.”Around the same time that the ProPublica profile was written, Stratfor also prepared a <a href="http://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/?viewemailid=409509" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 200ms ease 0s;">background brief</a> on shale gas activism for ExxonMobil. Dated December 15, 2009 it warns that shale gas activism is “likely to soon become an important element of the no Dirty Energy Campaign.” Several months later ExxonMobil announced its acquisition of XTO Energy, which had obtained millions of acres of lease holdings in the Marcellus Shale. As if unsure of its own decision – a $40 billion investment – ExxonMobil demanded the inclusion of an unusual escape clause that allows the company to back out of the deal if Congress regulates hydraulic fracturing to the point that it becomes “illegal or commercially impracticable.”According to Stratfor, however, such an outcome would be unlikely because environmental organizations were divided over the potential benefits of natural gas. At the time, the Sierra Club’s Carl Pope was working with Chesapeake Energy, one of the largest natural gas producers in the US, on a “Clean Skies” initiative. A Stratfor analyst wrote: “Some environmental groups feel pressed to find a way to accept (albeit tacitly) hydraulic fracturing and new shale gas projects generally.” But most local chapters of the Sierra Club and smaller grassroots organizations were opposed. Stratfor picked up on this nascent rift within the environmental community between those who view natural gas as a clean alternative to coal and oil and those who see it as just another dirty fossil fuel. Stratfor underlined the potential for driving a wedge between moderates and radicals within the environmental movement.(The Sierra Club has since reversed its policy on natural gas and now has a <a href="http://content.sierraclub.org/naturalgas/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent; transition: all 200ms ease 0s;">Beyond Gas</a> campaign, but the issue of gas extraction <a href="http://prospect.org/article/its-not-easy-being-green-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent; transition: all 200ms ease 0s;">continues to divide environmentalists</a>.)A similar strategy was outlined in a 2010 presentation on tar sands activism. Titled “Oil Sands Market Campaigns,” the document, first reported by Steve Horn at <a href="http://www.mintpressnews.com/stratfor-strategies-how-to-win-the-media-war-against-grassroots-activists/166078/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 200ms ease 0s;">Mint Press News</a>, divides tar sands activists into four categories–radicals, idealists, realists and opportunists. It essentially offers a blueprint on how to neutralize the opposition.Stratfor also gathered information on individual activists and members of environmental advocacy groups. In an <a href="http://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/?viewemailid=405230" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 200ms ease 0s;">email exchange</a> referring to work done by Walter Hang, an Ithaca based environmental consultant who documents industrial contamination on his web site, <a href="http://www.toxicstargeting.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 200ms ease 0s;">Toxics Targeting</a>, Mongoven writes, “Walter Hang has been around forever. Sees corporate conspiracies everywhere. Follower of Colborn [this is a reference to Theo Colborn, a leading toxicologist and anti fracking activist.]. Science is weak, rhetoric strong. We have a wealth of info on him based on previous hinge work.”Stratfor also took a keen interest in <a href="http://www.earthworksaction.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent; transition: all 200ms ease 0s;">Earthworks</a>, the leading critic of fracking. When Earthworks announced it was hiring Nadia Steinzor as an organizer in the Marcellus Shale region, Mongoven <a href="http://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/?viewemailid=398224" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent; transition: all 200ms ease 0s;">wrote</a> to his colleagues, “Check if she’s Rena’s daughter.” He was referring to Rena Steinzor, a professor of law at Maryland University. Steinzor is a long time environmental advocate and the author of several books including, <cite style="box-sizing: border-box;">Mother Earth and Uncle Sam: How Pollution and Hollow Government Hurt Our Kids</cite>.It turns out that Nadia Steinzor is Rena’s half sister, not her daughter. An environmental advocate for more than 35 years, Rena currently heads up the Center for Progressive Reform, a group of 16 academics who study and write about public health, worker and consumer safety, and environmental issues. Because the center doesn’t lobby or litigate, Steinzor says, it is very outspoken. “The industry is scared of us,” she says. “And they’re more scared than we sometimes remember. You know we’ve been losing a lot lately. And the one reason things haven’t gone to hell in a handbasket is because the industry is scared. They think that we’re very powerful and we can cause them a lot of trouble. And that’s why they track us.”Stratfor also kept tabs on anti fracking protest activity. In April 2011 the company received a <a href="http://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/?viewemailid=1970350" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 200ms ease 0s;">confidential memo</a> from the Rocky Mountain Energy Security Group (RMESG) alerting natural gas operators to a nationwide direct action campaign organized by <a href="http://www.risingtidenorthamerica.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 200ms ease 0s;">Rising Tide</a>, a grassroots environmental group. The Rocky Mountain Energy Security Group shares the same mailing address as Encana USA, a leading North American energy producer. When asked how the two groups are affiliated, Encana provided the following written statement: “Encana’s lead for security in the US chairs the Rocky Mountain Energy Security Group. Our involvement is strictly through our employee’s participation in a professional organization. As chair of the group, our security lead helps organize group conferences and as a result, Encana’s Denver address is used by the group.”Encana’s lead Security Advisor and chair of RMESG is John Lipka, a former FBI agent. Before joining Encana, Lipka worked for the FBI for 25 years supervising counterterrorism and violent crime investigations. He is also a member of the Houston based Energy Security Council’s Oil and Gas Law Enforcement Liaison Committee as well as the FBI’s public-private information sharing network known as InfraGard. In 2011, the same year that Lipka drafted the confidential memo about Rising Tide, the organization’s North Texas affiliate was the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/as-eco-terrorism-wanes-governments-still-target-activist-groups-seen-as-threat/2012/02/28/gIQAA4Ay3R_story.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 200ms ease 0s;">subject</a> of an FBI investigation related to its climate change and anti-fracking activism.RMESG brings together law enforcement officials and oil and gas security professionals in order to share intelligence. In spring 2010 Stratfor was invited to attend a <a href="http://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/?viewemailid=381793" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent; transition: all 200ms ease 0s;">RMESG conference</a> in Colorado devoted to security issues confronting the oil and gas industry from theft and fraud to cyber attacks and environmental activism. The second day of the conference was open to “law enforcement individuals for an Intel exchange.”In the years since the Stratfor documents mentioned above were drafted (the Wikileaks trove dates from 2004 to 2011) the anti-fracking movement has grown stronger. Bans on the practice have been passed in a handful of European countries. In the United States several cities have passed bans, including three in Colorado, or used the power of zoning to limit drilling activity. According to a <a href="http://www.controlrisks.com/OurThinking/Pages/The-Global-Anti-Fracking-Movement.aspx" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent; transition: all 200ms ease 0s;">report</a> on the “Global Anti-Fracking Movement” published by a London based consultant in 2012, “The industry has underestimated the sophistication, reach and influence of the anti-fracking movement. It is not simply ‘NIMBY-ism’ masquerading as environmentalism, but a diverse coalition of ideological and vested interests unlikely to be swayed by industry-funded studies or glossy public relations campaigns.”For the oil and gas industry, this sustained opposition wasn’t supposed to be part of the playbook. Natural gas, as its name suggests, was the alternative to dirtier fossil fuels and the answer to the energy industry’s public image crisis in an age of climate change. Instead fracking has become a dirty word, and the oil and gas firms are in the midst of a PR nightmare. As a Stratfor analyst observed in an email thread discussing French opposition to gas drilling, “‘fracking’ looks/sounds like a substitute curse word.”=jon utterly punked<a href="http://www.cc.com/video-clips/11480v/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-fred-burton">http://www.cc.com/video-clips/11480v/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-fred-burton</a>"dark world" 3 guys,  ctr-terror, blk sept, japanese red army; rewards for informer "rewards of justice" ramsy yousuf capture; start in basment 1985
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libta , infiltrate hezbollah, basically pimps for coiraqi trained terrorists bombers etc...<div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20131205/worst-case-scenario-oil-sands-industry-has-come-life-leaked-document-shows" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20131205/worst-case-scenario-oil-sands-industry-has-come-life-leaked-document-shows</a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="content" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded" style="box-sizing: inherit;">As environmentalists began ratcheting up pressure against Canada's <a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/topic/oil-sands" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent;">tar sands</a> three years ago, one of the world's biggest strategic consulting firms was tapped to help the North American oil industry figure out how to handle the mounting activism. The resulting document, published online by WikiLeaks, offers another window into how oil and gas companies have been scrambling to deal with unrelenting opposition to their growth plans.The document identifies nearly two-dozen environmental organizations leading the anti-oil sands movement and puts them into four categories: radicals, idealists, realists and opportunists—with how-to's for managing each. It also reveals that the worst-case scenario presented to industry about the movement's growing influence seems to have come to life.The <a href="http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/873021-33714-suncor-presentation-1210-6.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: inherit;">December 2010 presentation</a> by <a href="http://www.stratfor.com/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">Strategic Forecasting, or Stratfor</a>, a global intelligence firm based in Texas, mostly advised oil sands companies to ignore or limit reaction to the then-burgeoning tar sands opposition movement because "activists lack influence in politics." But there was a buried warning for industry under one scenario: Letting the movement grow unopposed may bring about "the most significant environmental campaign of the decade.""This worst-case scenario is exactly what has happened," partly because opposition to tar sands development has expanded beyond nonprofit groups to include individual activists concerned about <a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/topic/climate-change" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">climate change</a>, said <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/media-center/experts/Mark-Floegel/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">Mark Floegel</a>, a senior investigator for Greenpeace. "The more people in America see Superstorm Sandys or tornadoes in Chicago, the more they are waking up and joining the fight."<div class="DV-container" id="DV-viewer-873021-33714-suncor-presentation-1210-6" style="box-sizing: inherit;">
</div>Since the presentation was prepared, civil disobedience and <a href="http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20130131/president-obama-john-kerry-keystone-xl-pipeline-oil-sands-tar-sands-climate-change-global-warming-transcanada" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">protests against the tar sands have sprung up from coast to coast</a>. The movement has helped delay President Obama's decision on the <a href="http://insideclimatenews.org/topic/keystone-xl" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">Keystone XL pipeline</a>—designed to funnel Canada's landlocked oil sands crude to refineries on the Gulf Coast—and has held up another contentious pipeline in Canada, the <a href="http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20120727/first-nations-british-columbia-northern-gateway-pipeline-oil-sands-dilbit-enbridge-canada-supreme-court-china" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">Northern Gateway to the Pacific Coast</a>.The Power Point document, titled "Oil Sands Market Campaigns," was recently made public by WikiLeaks, part of a larger release of hacked files from Stratfor, whose clients include the Departments of Homeland Security and Defense, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and the American Petroleum Institute, the oil industry lobby. It appears to have been created for Calgary-based petroleum giant <a href="http://www.suncor.com/default.aspx" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">Suncor Energy</a>, Canada's largest oil sands producer.The company told InsideClimate News that it did not hire Stratfor and never saw such a presentation. Suncor is mentioned 11 times in the document's 35 pages and all of Stratfor's advice seems to be directed at the energy company. For example, one slide says, "Campaign ends quickly with a resolution along the lines Suncor had wanted." In several emails released by WikiLeaks, Stratfor employees discuss a $14,890 payment Suncor owes the company for two completed projects, though no details were provided.The presentation is the latest in a series of revelations that suggest energy companies—which for most of their history seemed unfazed by activists—have been looking for ways to dilute environmentalists' growing influence.Earlier this year, TransCanada, the Canadian energy company behind the Keystone XL, <a href="http://www.eenews.net/stories/1059982632" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">briefed Nebraska law enforcement authorities</a> on how to prosecute demonstrators protesting the 1,200-mile project. In 2011, Range Resources, an oil and gas company, <a href="http://desmogblog.com/gas-fracking-industry-using-military-psychological-warfare-tactics-and-personnel-u-s-communities" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">allegedly hired combat veterans</a> with experience in psychological warfare to squash opposition of natural gas drilling."The Stratfor presentation isn't a complete surprise," said <a href="http://understory.ran.org/author/sparki/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent;">Scott Parkin</a>, a senior campaigner for the Rainforest Action Network and volunteer organizer for Rising Tide North America, both grassroots environmental groups. "As opposition has grown, coal, oil and gas companies are all starting to put more money into responding—from surveillance to protection to public relations."Who Is TargetedFor each of Stratfor's categories of environmental activist—radicals, idealists, realists and opportunists—the presentation explains how their campaigns are structured and how the fossil fuel industry could deal with them.Three grassroots organizations—<a href="http://www.risingtidenorthamerica.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: inherit;">Rising Tide North America</a>, <a href="http://priceofoil.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: inherit;">Oil Change International</a> and the <a href="http://www.ienearth.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: inherit;">Indigenous Environmental Network</a>—were labeled radicals. <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: inherit;">Greenpeace</a> and the <a href="http://ran.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: inherit;">Rainforest Action Network</a> were classified as a cross between radicals and idealists. <a href="http://www.sierraclub.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: inherit;">Sierra Club</a>, the nation's largest environmental group, <a href="http://www.amnesty.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: inherit;">Amnesty International</a> and <a href="http://www.cbecal.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">Communities for a Better Environment</a>, among others, were labeled idealists. Several mainstream environmental groups, including the <a href="http://www.nwf.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">National Wildlife Federation</a>, <a href="http://worldwildlife.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">World Wildlife Fund</a>, <a href="http://www.nrdc.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">Natural Resources Defense Council</a> and <a href="http://www.ceres.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">Ceres</a>, a nonprofit that organizes businesses, investors and public interest groups, were called realists.It then lays out tactics the groups would use to push for change. They include holding demonstrations outside annual meetings and marketing events, generating fear of oil spills and other environmental disasters, targeting CEOs and their families, collaborating with other green groups, and splitting the fossil fuel industry on the issue by praising companies working with activists and publicly shaming those that aren't.The presentation says that while environmental groups are publicly fighting to stop the expansion of the oil sands, their "real demand" is for fossil fuel companies to adopt a "global code of conduct"—a set of best practices not required by law, but that take into consideration things like greenhouse gas reduction policies and human rights.The Power Point also describes all the ways fossil fuel companies like Suncor could choose to react to green groups' campaigns, such as limiting contact with the organizations, intentionally delaying negotiations, developing its own environmental initiatives to overshadow activists' demands, or simply not responding. It provides the pros and cons of each public relations decision, as well as the best- and worst-case outcomes for each.For example, Stratfor said that choosing not to respond could be useful because in 2010, "activists are not stopping oil sands' growth and they have no power in Alberta or Ottawa. Chance of success with U.S. government is slim." The best outcome from a no-response strategy, according to the presentation, is that green "groups move to fracturing [natural gas <a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/topic/fracking" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent;">fracking</a>] or some other venue to press for the first major code of conduct."Stratfor would not answer questions about the presentation because it has a policy not to comment on any of the WikiLeaks documents.Several environmental groups named in the Stratfor presentation said they weren't surprised by the consulting firm's assessment of their work, but were disappointed, especially by its assumption that all they wanted was a code of conduct."The environmental community has been very united in saying that we need to stop tar sands expansion and clean up the mess already made there," said <a href="http://www.nrdc.org/about/staff/susan-casey-lefkowitz" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent;">Susan Casey-Lefkowitz</a>, director of the Natural Resources Defense Council's international program. "That's the only real path forward if we're going to protect not only the health of communities on the ground in the boreal forests near the tar sands region, but also around the world from the impacts of climate change. We're not looking for a code of conduct."For many, the leaked presentation provided proof that their work was having an impact, boosting their confidence to keep protesting."Knowing that groups like Stratfor are targeting us, surveying us, and also analyzing us shows how powerful these movements have become," said Parkin of the Rainforest Action Network and Rising Tide North America. "Obviously this wasn't meant for public consumption, but this doesn't intimidate us. If anything, it emboldens us. It encourages us to push harder."</div></div></div></div><div class="tagged-with" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-transform: uppercase; margin-bottom: 1em;"><label style="box-sizing: inherit; display: block; line-height: 1.2;">PUBLISHED UNDER:</label><div class="field field-name-field-topics field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-item even" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; padding-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/topics/activism" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent;">ACTIVISM</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-item even" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; padding-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/topic/oil-sands" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent;">OIL SANDS</a></div> <div class="field-item odd" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; padding-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/topic/fracking" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent;">FRACKING</a></div> <div class="field-item even" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; padding-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/topic/climate-change" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent;">CLIMATE CHANGE</a></div></div></div></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div></div><div style=""></div><div style="">https://yyy.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/feb/28/wikileaks-intelligence-industrial-complex</div><div style="">
</div><div style=""><div>no lnx many guk</div><div>WikiLeaks' Stratfor dump lifts lid on intelligence-industrial complex</div><div>
</div><div>Pratap Chatterjee</div><div>WikiLeaks' latest release, of hacked emails from Stratfor, shines light on the murky world of private intelligence-gathering</div><div>Tue 28 Feb 2012 12.54 ESTFirst published on Tue 28 Feb 2012 12.54 EST</div><div>WikiLeaks Global Intelligence files</div><div>
</div><div> WikiLeaks website featuring documents obtained by hackers from private intelligence firm Stratfor. Photograph: guardiannews.com]</div><div>
</div><div>What price bad intelligence? Some 5m internal emails from Stratfor, an Austin, Texas-based company that brands itself as a "global intelligence" provider, were recently obtained by Anonymous, the hacker collective, and are being released in batches by WikiLeaks, the whistleblowing website, starting Monday.</div><div>
</div><div>The most striking revelation from the latest disclosure is not simply the military-industrial complex that conspires to spy on citizens, activists and trouble-causers, but the extremely low quality of the information available to the highest bidder. Clients of the company include Dow Chemical, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon, as well as US government agencies like the Department of Homeland Security, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Marines.</div><div>
</div><div>Analysts working on the Middle East for the company appeared to be very poorly informed, with no more experience than a semester of studying abroad, according to journalists who have studied the documents. "They used Google translate to read al-Akbar news articles," says an incredulous Jamal Ghosn, associate editor of that newspaper in Beirut, Lebanon. "This is a guaranteed way for good intelligence to be lost in translation."</div><div>
</div><div>Mike Bonnano of the Yes Men, a group of international pranksters who impersonate corporate executives and government leaders to highlight environmental and social abuses, was astonished to discover that his group was being tracked by Stratfor, which was apparently making money selling a list of his public-speaking engagements.</div><div>
</div><div>"They [are] making it sound better to clients simply so that they can make money," says Bonnano, after reviewing the material provided to him by WikiLeaks. "We're not talking about good intelligence, we're talking about a lot of information because more information means more money. That does not mean that it's smart."</div><div>
</div><div>Bonnano gave another example: Stratfor allegedly sent a memo to Dow Chemical summarising a public blogpost on the use of an environmentally-friendly washing machine used by activists campaigning against the 1984 lethal gas leak from Union Carbide's plant in Bhopal, India, which killed over 2,259 people instantly and an estimated 25,000 over the next few years.</div><div>
</div><div>Stratfor is not the first company to be caught selling low-quality "intelligence" to government agencies and multinational corporations. Aaron Barr, then CEO of HB Gary Federal, a Sacramento, California-based company that sells similar services, boasted in 2010 that he could extract information about hackers like Anonymous from social media. In early February 2011, the company website was hacked to reveal the company was selling very inaccurate information about WikiLeaks.</div><div>
</div><div>What is more disturbing is that the information revealed about HBGary Federal and Stratfor suggests both companies were also seeking to profit by disrupting journalists and activist groups. HBGary Federal documents suggest that they were marketing a campaign for Bank of America to attack Glenn Greenwald of Salon and for the US Chamber of Commerce to attack the Washington, DC-based thinktank, the Center for American Progress (full disclosure: I do consulting work for the CAP). (There is no evidence Bank of America or the US Chamber of Commerce responded to the alleged offer of these services.)</div><div>
</div><div>Likewise, Stratfor has been actively following anti-Union Carbide activist groups like the Bhopal Medical Appeal, a tiny, Brighton, England-based non-profit, which worked with the Yes Men in July 2009 to stage a protest outside the Dow office in Staines in the UK. The newly-released emails suggest that the Dow shut down its offices on that occasion to avoid the protesters, after receiving a Stratfor report.</div><div>
</div><div>"Why is a company like Stratfor sniffing around us?" said Colin Toogood, of Bhopal Medical Appeal. "It makes you question how smart they are. How much is this costing? Wouldn't it be better PR to just get out and clean Bhopal up?"</div><div>
</div><div>Julian Assange of WikiLeaks says that the emails also reveal that Stratfor has recruited a "global network of informants who are paid via Swiss banks accounts and pre-paid credit cards – which includes government employees, embassy staff and journalists around the world." This, he says, "is corrupt or corrupting because Stratfor is a private intelligence organisation that services governments and private clients."</div><div>
</div><div>Assange notes that Stratfor is also seeking to profit directly from this information by partnering in an apparent hedge-fund venture with Shea Morenz, a former Goldman Sachs managing director. He points to an August 2011 document, marked "DO NOT SHARE OR DISCUSS", from Stratfor CEO George Friedman, which says:</div><div>
</div><div>"What StratCap will do is use our Stratfor's intelligence and analysis to trade in a range of geopolitical instruments, particularly government bonds, currencies and the like."</div><div>
</div><div>The claim that Stratfor buys information from insiders, while seeking to profit from their analysis, could attract the attention of regulators like the Securities and Exchange Commission, which polices Wall Street. This is something that Stratfor is already worried about. In an August 2011 memo released by WikiLeaks, Friedman wrote to his employees:</div><div>
</div><div>"We are retaining a law firm to create a policy for Stratfor on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. I don't plan to do the perp walk and I don't want anyone here doing it either."</div><div>
</div><div>The company has refused to answer any questions about the emails. Instead, it released a short statement (http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/stratfor-statement-on-wikileaks-140524033.html) that says:</div><div>
</div><div>"Some of the emails may be forged or altered to include inaccuracies; some may be authentic. We will not validate either. Nor will we explain the thinking that went into them. Having had our property stolen, we will not be victimized twice by submitting to questioning about them."</div><div>
</div><div>Assange slyly points out that this is in keeping with a lunchroom memo from Fred Barton, Stratfor's vice-president of intelligence, in which he states that he has an unofficial rule:</div><div>
</div><div>"Admit nothing, deny everything and make counter-accusations."</div><div>
</div><div>Statfor belongs to an extensive industry. In Top Secret America, a new book by Dana Priest and William Arkin of the Washington Post, the authors reveal that there are literally thousands of so-called intelligence analysts hawking equally dubious information to the federal government.</div><div>
</div><div>By its very nature, of course, such information is secret and often protected by government order. Nothing short of a major congressional investigation will be able to drill down into this intelligence-industrial cartel to assess not just the quality of the information and the way it was obtained, but whether or not any of it serves the public interest – or the very opposite. That is, unless Anonymous or WikiLeaks gets there and does the work first.</div></div><div style="">
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</div><div style="">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.<h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 20px 12px 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Fwd: Non-violence manual</h2>Released on 2013-02-13 00:00 GMT<table width="100%" class="cable" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); max-width: 100%; width: 740px; margin-top: 10px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); text-align: justify;"><tbody style="box-sizing: inherit;"><tr style="box-sizing: inherit;"><th style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px; font-weight: normal; text-align: left; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);">Email-ID</th><td style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);">1797625</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: inherit;"><th style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px; font-weight: normal; text-align: left; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);">Date</th><td style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);">1970-01-01 01:00:00</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: inherit;"><th style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px; font-weight: normal; text-align: left; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);">From</th><td style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);">marko.papic@stratfor.com</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: inherit;"><th style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px; font-weight: normal; text-align: left; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);">To</th><td style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);">fred.burton@stratfor.com</td></tr></tbody></table><div id="doc-description" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Fwd: Non-violence manual Info on CANVAS (Otpor) Background: Otpor (means â€œresistanceâ€ in Serbian) was founded in October of 1998 at the University of Belgrade. At first it was a student protest group (mainly concerned with Milosevicâ€™s repressive media and university laws), but quickly expanded into a national underground resistance movement during the 2000 Presidential elections. Many of its members were arrested in 2000 in the run-up to the elections, Milosevic branded them terrorists. This all backfired as most of Otpor members were young students from the university. Otpor first tried to brand itself as an anti-corruption NGO, while some of its members went into politics (such as Srdja Popovic, who won a seat in the Parliament in 2000 and was an environmental advisor to the Djindjic government). They finally reconstituted themselves as a political party in 2003, but failed miserably to attract any votes. CANVAS (http://www.canvasopedia.org/) is a spin-off of Otpor and was founded by Srdja Popovic and Ivan Marovic in late 2003 after Srdja Popovic left the Djindjic government (who was assassinated in March 2003). They have been involved with numerous pro-democracy movements around the world (most effectively in Ukraine and Georgia, but they were also in Belarus, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Iran, Lebanon, Azerbaijan and Tibet). They use Gene Sharpâ€™s non-violence theory and give it their own spin (to check out their manual on non-violence, go here: http://www.canvasopedia.org/content/weaponry/intro.htm) They are supported by the Albert Einstein Institution (founded by Gene Sharp), Democracy Research Guide, International Center on Nonviolent Conflict Resources, International Republican Institute and the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. They may have also received CIA funding and training during the 1999/2000 anti-Milosevic struggle. The piece we did on them last fall is attached at the end of the document. Potential Benefits from Stratfor-CANVAS Cooperation What they want from us: Canvas appreciates the media attention. The article we did on them in October 2007 definitely pleased them (so much so that it was prominently displayed on their own website for a while). They may be looking for more of this. What we can get from them: They would be a great source of contacts. They have met with most of the active student anti-regime organizations that matter. They could furnish us with contacts and introductions that we could tap whenever we need timely information. As a source themselves, CANVAS probably does not have the ability to provide us with on the spot information (except maybe on Serbia). They can offer their opinion and analysis, but they are much more valuable as a source of contacts. We can also get a better picture of who in the US funds these types of groups. The key players: SRDJA POPOVIC Srdja is a native of Belgrade, son of a prominent TV reported and a popular news anchor on state television. His main responsibilities in Otpor (which he was a founding member of) were human resources and training. He studied Gene Sharpâ€™s works at the university, so he translated his texts and put them into practice. His main field of study was biology. He is considered the brainchild of the anti-Milosevic non-violent revolution in Serbia. He mostly worked behind the scenes of Otpor, writing speeches and manuals (most of the texts on CANVASâ€™s website are his writing). After he became an MP in 2000 with the Djindjic government he became an environmental advisor. Was also the founder of an environmental NGO called the Green Fist. SINISA SIKMAN One of the main trainers of Canvas, also an ex-Otpor member. He was directly involved in the training of the Georgian and Ukrainian anti-government student groups. Has also been quoted numerous times by Western media in relation to Canvas/Otpor international activities. Has once stated that Otpor did receive CIA funding. SLOBODAN DJINOVIC Also an ex-Otpor member, he was very active in the run-up to the Georgian revolution. He is also the founder and President of Mediaworks, a Belgrade based IT company that immediately following the defeat of Slobodan Milosevic received very profitable frequency permits from the government. According to some Belgrade sources he was the main link to a lot of the US funding, especially with the International Republican Institute. Venezuela: The Marigold Revolution? October 5, 2007 | 2121 GMT Summary</div><div id="doc-description" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Another color revolution may be forming â€” in Latin America. Analysis Our story begins in 1999, when a small group of Serbian college students took a look at the government of then-Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and decided that enough was enough. They began regular protests against Milosevicâ€™s authoritarian rule and began to act as a nexus, coordinating their efforts with other dissident groups and minor political parties. In early 2000 they named their student activist group Otpor. Within months, Otporâ€™s invigorating and slick campaign tactics helped energize and unite various political factions and bind them together into a confederated anti-Milosevic movement. And in October of that year, Milosevicâ€™s government fell. After its greatest hour, Otpor did not dissolve. It evolved. It remained active in demanding political accountability at home in Belgrade, but also stretched out internationally, seeking training and allies. As the organizationâ€™s founders graduated from university the group became more nuanced and gradually grew to command a broader and deeper skill set. Otpor strengthened its connections with Western governments and nongovernmental organizations, which provided the group with funding and limited amounts of intelligence about potential weaknesses in regimes they were already targeting. The tactics used in the crucible in Belgrade were â€œmarketedâ€ in documentaries and training manuals. Otpor became more than â€œjustâ€ a student group and transformed itself into the Center for Applied Non-Violent Action and Strategies (CANVAS). Among the groupâ€™s strongest allies are Freedom House and the Albert Einstein Institute and, through them, the U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.S. Department of State. In 2003 CANVAS worked with the opposition in the former Soviet state of Georgia and helped foment the Rose Revolution. In 2004 similar efforts merged with a broader international effort to spur Ukraineâ€™s Orange Revolution and Kyrgyzstanâ€™s Tulip Revolution. Not all of CANVASâ€™s attempts proved successful. Efforts in Belarus, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan, for example, bore no fruit. But the groupâ€™s ability to mobilize and unite disparate factions and strike at the core of authoritarian systems are among the best on the planet.</div><div id="doc-description" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> In 2005, CANVAS turned its attention to Venezuela, and on Oct. 5 â€” the seventh anniversary of Milosevicâ€™s fall â€” five student leaders from Venezuela arrived in Belgrade for training.</div><div id="doc-description" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Demographically, Venezuela is very young, and thus in political terms student groups are potentially powerful. Additionally, the student movement is probably the most cohesive single faction within the Venezuelan opposition to President Hugo Chavez ” which is itself perhaps the most ineffective and fractured opposition in Latin America. Venezuelan students only recently became active in anti-Chavez activities, and formed the backbone of opposition to decision to not renew the broadcasting license of RCTV, the country's only meaningful private television station.</div><div id="doc-description" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Success is by no means guaranteed, and student movements are only at the beginning of what could be a years-long effort to trigger a revolution in Venezuela, but the trainers themselves are the people who cut their teeth on the â€œButcher of the Balkans.â€ Theyâ€™ve got mad skills. When you see students at five Venezuelan universities hold simultaneous demonstrations, you will know that the training is over and the real work has begun. </div><div id="file-list" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h3 style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1;">Attached Files</h3><table width="100%" class="cable" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; background-color: transparent; max-width: 100%; width: 740px; margin-top: 10px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);"><tbody style="box-sizing: inherit;"><tr style="box-sizing: inherit;"><th style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px; font-weight: normal; text-align: left; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);">#</th><th style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px; font-weight: normal; text-align: left; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);">Filename</th><th style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px; font-weight: normal; text-align: left; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);">Size</th></tr><tr style="box-sizing: inherit;"><td style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);">126766</td><td style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);"><a href="https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/attach/126/126766_Info%20on%20CANVAS.doc" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; background: transparent;">126766_Info on CANVAS.doc</a></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div style="">=</div><div style=""><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/02/stratfor-is-a-joke-and-so-is-wikileaks-for-taking-it-seriously/253681/">https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/02/stratfor-is-a-joke-and-so-is-wikileaks-for-taking-it-seriously/253681/</a></div><div style="">
</div><div style=""><div class="blah" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.2em; display: grid;" a="a" b="b" grid-template-columns="grid-template-columns" fr="fr" px="px" font-family="font-family" agaramondpro="AGaramondPro" adobe="Adobe" garamond="Garamond" pro="Pro" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" font-size="font-size"><div class="l-articlecontainercontainer" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: none; width: 736px; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex-grow: 1; align-self: start; grid-area: 1 / 1 / auto / span 1;"><section class="l-articlesection s-cms-content" itemprop="articleBody" id="article-section-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: 64px; line-height: 1.4;">On June 2, 2009, Anya Alfano of Stratfor, which describes itself as a private "global intelligence company," sent an email to a colleague requesting some global intelligence on a certain trans-national civilian group on behalf of a powerful international client. That email has now been released to the world, <a href="http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2012/02/another-major-data-dump-wikileaks/49177/" id="byhw" title="along with five million others like it" data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'1',r'None'" style="transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; box-sizing: inherit;">along with five million others like it</a>, by global transparency group Wikileaks, thus revealing Stratfor's shadowy scheme.According to Anya Alfano's email, Stratfor's target was PETA, the animal rights group, and its client Coca-Cola. Their top secret mission was to find out "How many PETA supporters are there in Canada?" and other tantalizing global secrets that could only be secured through such top-secret means as calling PETA's press office or Googling it. Alfano concluded her chilling email, "I need all the information our talented interns can dig up by COB tomorrow."<div data-template="hippo/components/ads/article-mobile.html" data-native="standard,gift" data-pos="boxinjector-m" class=" ad-boxinjector-m-wrapper" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0px;">Shortly before the release, Wikileaks <a href="https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/173859708715798530" id="z66" title="told" data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'2',r'None'" style="transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; box-sizing: inherit;">told</a> the world to prepare for "extraordinary news." In <a href="http://wikileaks.org/the-gifiles.html" id="l8.2" title="announcing" data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'3',r'None'" style="transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; box-sizing: inherit;">announcing</a> today's release, Wikileaks describes Stratfor as "a company that fronts as an intelligence publisher, but provides confidential intelligence services to large corporations." The group's announcement says that the released emails "show Stratfor's web of informers, pay-off structure, payment-laundering techniques and psychological methods" and calls the company "a money-making scheme of questionable legality." It adds, "The material shows how a private intelligence agency works, and how they target individuals for their corporate and government clients."</div></section></div><aside class="l-rail l-rail--right l-rail--1" role="complementary" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex-basis: 300px; flex-shrink: 0; min-width: 300px; grid-area: 1 / 2 / span 1 / auto;"><div class="u-dynamic-content js-dynamic-content is-rendered lazyloaded" data-include="/api/2.0/articles/253681/related-articles/?page_size=3 module:theatlantic/js/lacroix/components/recirc-content" data-insert="false" data-section="side" data-source="curated" data-title="More Stories" data-currentinclude="" style="box-sizing: inherit; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.5s ease 0s;"><section class="c-recirc-content" style="box-sizing: inherit; left: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; position: static; right: auto; width: auto;"><div class="c-recirc-contentitems" style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow: auto hidden; white-space: nowrap; width: auto;"><ul class="c-recirc-contentlist" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; flex-direction: column;"><li class="c-recirc-item c-recirc-item--" id="recirc-item-2" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(211, 220, 230); display: flex; padding: 16px 0px; position: relative; white-space: normal; width: auto; flex-direction: row-reverse; justify-content: space-between;"><div class="c-recirc-itemcontent" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex-grow: 1;" /></li></ul></div></section></div></aside></div><div data-section="full" data-pos="boxinjector-d" data-template="hippo/components/ads/article-desktop.html" data-native="standard,gift" class=" ad-boxinjector-d-wrapper" style="box-sizing: inherit;" adobe="Adobe" garamond="Garamond" pro="Pro" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><div class="blah" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.2em; display: grid;" a="a" b="b" grid-template-columns="grid-template-columns" fr="fr" px="px" margin-top="margin-top" em="em" font-family="font-family" agaramondpro="AGaramondPro" adobe="Adobe" garamond="Garamond" pro="Pro" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" font-size="font-size"><div class="l-articlecontainercontainer" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: none; width: 736px; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex-grow: 1; align-self: start; grid-area: 1 / 1 / auto / span 1;"><section class="l-articlesection s-cms-content" itemprop="articleBody" id="article-section-1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: 64px; line-height: 1.4;">Maybe what these emails actually reveal is how a Texas-based corporate research firm can get a little carried away in marketing itself as a for-hire CIA and end up fooling some over-eager hackers into believing it's true.The group's reputation among foreign policy writers, analysts, and practitioners <a href="http://www.texasmonthly.com/2011-02-01/bookrev.php" id="vp_x" title="is poor" data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'4',r'None'" style="transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; box-sizing: inherit;">is poor</a>; they are considered a <a href="http://drezner.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/02/27/wake_me_when_wikileaks_publishes_the_illuminati_e_mails" id="bfsa" title="punchline" data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'5',r'None'" style="transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; box-sizing: inherit;">punchline</a> more often than a source of valuable information or insight. As a former recipient of their "INTEL REPORTS" (I assume someone at Stratfor signed me up for a trial subscription, which appeared in my inbox unsolicited), what I found was typically some combination of publicly available information and bland "analysis" that had already appeared in the previous day's New York Times. A friend who works in intelligence once joked that Stratfor is just The Economist a week later and several hundred times more expensive. As of 2001, a Stratfor subscription could <a href="http://online.barrons.com/article/SB1002927557434087960.html" id="n3ru" title="cost" data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'6',r'None'" style="transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; box-sizing: inherit;">cost</a> up to $40,000 per year.<div data-template="hippo/components/ads/article-mobile.html" data-native="standard,gift" data-pos="boxinjector-m" class=" ad-boxinjector-m-wrapper" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0px;">It's true that Stratfor employs on-the-ground researchers. They are not spies. On today's Wikileaks release, one Middle East-based NGO worker noted on Twitter that when she met Stratfor's man in Cairo, he spoke no Arabic, had never been to Egypt before, and had to ask her for directions to Tahrir Square. Stratfor also sometimes pays "sources" for information. Wikileaks calls this "secret cash bribes," hints that this might violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and demands "political oversight."For comparison's sake, The Atlantic often sends our agents into such dangerous locales as <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2009/11/quds-day-revisited-an-iran-report/29501/" id="wh3v" title="Iran" data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'7',r'None'" style="transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; box-sizing: inherit;">Iran</a> or <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/12/a-tour-inside-syrias-insurgency/250654/" id="oduy" title="Syria" data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'8',r'None'" style="transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; box-sizing: inherit;">Syria</a>. We call these men and women "reporters." Much like Statfor's agents, they collect intelligence, <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/12/the-ally-from-hell/8730/" id="c0-j" title="some of it secret" data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'9',r'None'" style="transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; box-sizing: inherit;">some of it secret</a>, and then relay it back to us so that we may pass it on to our clients, whom we call "subscribers." Also like Stratfor, The Atlantic sometimes issues "secret cash bribes" to on-the-ground sources, whom we call "freelance writers." We also prefer to keep their cash bribes ("writer's fees") secret, and sometimes these sources are even <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/mark-simpson/" id="szsk" title="anonymous" data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'10',r'None'" style="transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; box-sizing: inherit;">anonymous</a>.<div data-template="hippo/components/ads/article-mobile.html" data-native="standard,gift" data-pos="boxinjector-m" class=" ad-boxinjector-m-wrapper" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0px;">So why do Wikileaks and their hacker source Anonymous seem to consider Stratfor, which appears to do little more than combine banal corporate research with media-style freelance researcher arrangements, to be a cross between CIA and Illuminati? The answer is probably a combination of naivete and desperation. Wikileaks chief Julian Assange, after all, felt comfortable <a href="http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/06/assange-claims-credit-for-egypts-revolution/" id="u.h8" title="taking credit for the Egyptian revolution" data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'11',r'None'" style="transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; box-sizing: inherit;">taking credit for the Egyptian revolution</a>; how good can his understanding of world events, and the actors shaping them, really be? Anonymous, which <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/27/technology/attack-on-vatican-web-site-offers-view-of-hacker-groups-tactics.html?r=2&hpw" id="l4rw" title="tried and failed" data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'12',r'None'" style="transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; box-sizing: inherit;">tried and failed</a> to hack the Vatican's websites, doesn't appear to have much of an ideology beyond mischief-making. Wikileaks has been <a href="http://gigaom.com/2012/02/27/does-wikileaks-still-matter/" id="s3y4" title="declining rapidly" data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'13',r'None'" style="transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; box-sizing: inherit;">declining rapidly</a> since first releasing Bradley Manning's trove of U.S. diplomatic cables; their finances are <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Backchannels/2012/0227/On-Stratfor-Assange-and-Anonymous-just-don-t-get-it?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+feeds%2Fworld+%28Christian+Science+Monitor+%7C+World%29" id="sunx" title="shrinking" data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'14',r'None'" style="transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; box-sizing: inherit;">shrinking</a>, their organization <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-09-03/wikileaks-organizers-demand-julian-assange-step-aside/" id="qbj2" title="disintegrating" data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'15',r'None'" style="transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; box-sizing: inherit;">disintegrating</a> (due in part to what former employees describe as Assange's poor leadership), and their credibility with his past media partners is mostly gone.</div></div></section></div><aside class="l-rail l-rail--right l-rail--2" role="complementary" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-basis: 300px; flex-shrink: 0; min-width: 300px; grid-area: 1 / 2 / span 1 / auto; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: column; -webkit-box-pack: center; justify-content: center;"><div data-section="side" data-pos="native-rr" data-template="hippo/components/ads/rail.html" data-native="standard,gift" class=" ad-native-rr-wrapper" style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></aside></div><div data-section="full" data-pos="boxinjector-d" data-template="hippo/components/ads/article-desktop.html" data-native="standard,gift" class=" ad-boxinjector-d-wrapper" style="box-sizing: inherit;" adobe="Adobe" garamond="Garamond" pro="Pro" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><div class="blah" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; display: grid; grid-template-areas: " a="a" b="b" grid-template-columns="grid-template-columns" fr="fr" px="px" margin-top="margin-top" em="em" font-family="font-family" agaramondpro="AGaramondPro" adobe="Adobe" garamond="Garamond" pro="Pro" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" font-size="font-size"><div class="l-articlecontainercontainer" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: none; width: 736px; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex-grow: 1; align-self: start; grid-area: 1 / 1 / auto / span 1;"><section class="l-article__section s-cms-content" itemprop="articleBody" id="article-section-2" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: 64px; line-height: 1.4;">Assange would probably like to regain some of his former glory; Wikileaks' 2010 release of video from a U.S. army helicopter in Iraq sparked a small international incident and won praise from much of the media, <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/04/the-real-scandal-of-wikileaks-iraq-killings-video/38531/" id="fiij" title="including me" data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'16',r'None'" style="transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; box-sizing: inherit;">including me</a>. What better way to do it than by taking on an easy target and then claiming you'd exposed an international corporate-imperialist conspiracy? Stratfor is not the shadow-CIA that Wikileaks seems to believe it is, but much of the blame for this mistake actually lies with Stratfor itself.<div data-template="hippo/components/ads/article-mobile.html" data-native="standard,gift" data-pos="boxinjector-m" class=" ad-boxinjector-m-wrapper" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0px;">The group has spent over a decade trying to convince the world that it is a for-hire, cutting-edge intel firm with tentacles everywhere. Before their marketing campaign fooled Anonymous, it fooled wealthy clients; before it fooled clients, it hooked a couple of reporters. A <a href="http://online.barrons.com/article/SB1002927557434087960.html" id="hgpl" title="breathless October 15, 2001, Barron's cover story" data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'17',r'None'" style="transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; box-sizing: inherit;">breathless October 15, 2001, Barron's cover story</a> called Stratfor "a private quasi-CIA," the evidence for which appears to be this quote from Stratfor chief George Friedman: "The CIA has to spend thousands of dollars a month to have an agent in, say, Teheran or Peshawar to monitor local newspapers or political developments that we can find on the Internet within a few hours." In other words, they have Google. But Stratfor's first big break had come in 1999 with a spate of glowing articles such as <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,18728,00.html" id="uxbd" title="this January piece in Time" data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'18',r'None'" style="transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; box-sizing: inherit;">this January piece in Time</a>, which reported Stratfor's "striking" theory that the U.S. bombing of Iraq in December 1998 was "actually designed to mask a failed U.S.-backed coup." That theory, like so much of Stratfor's "intelligence," was discredited long ago</div></section></div></div></div><div style="">=</div><div style="">
</div><div style=""><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr;"><div class="mw-parser-output" style="">Fred Burton is geopolitical intelligence platform <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor" title="Stratfor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Stratfor</a>'s chief security officer<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Burton(security_expert)#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Burton(security_expert)#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a> and a New York Times bestselling author.<div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading" style="background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 7px; display: table;"><ul style="list-style-image: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Burton(security_expert)#Early_life" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1Early life</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Burton(security_expert)#Career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2Career</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Burton(security_expert)#Books" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3Books</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Burton(security_expert)#Film_and_TV_appearances" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4Film and TV appearances</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Burton(security_expert)#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Burton(security_expert)#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;">Early life[</h2>Burton was born January 2, 1958, in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beckley,West_Virginia" title="Beckley, West Virginia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Beckley, West Virginia</a>, United States. He attended high school in Bethesda, Maryland, and became a volunteer with the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bccrs.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" b4b84="b4b84" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">Bethesda-Chevy Chase Rescue Squad</a> at age 18, in 1975. He remains a Life Member of the organization, which bills itself as the world's largest volunteer rescue squad. His volunteer activities are briefly referenced in his first book, "Ghost: Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent."Some of the events in his early life are recounted in the 2011 book Chasing Shadows: A Special Agent's Lifelong Hunt to Bring a Cold War Assassin to Justice. Burton has said he was deeply impacted by the murder in 1973 of a neighbor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosef_Alon" title="Yosef Alon" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Joe Alon</a>, who was later discovered to have been an Israeli intelligence operative.<h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;">Career[</h2>Burton began his career in law enforcement as a police officer in Montgomery County, Maryland and later worked for the U.S. Secret Service.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Burton(security_expert)#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a> From 1985 to 1999, he was a special agent with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_Security_Service" title="Diplomatic Security Service" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">U.S. Diplomatic Security Service (DSS)</a>. He eventually became the deputy chief of the DSS counterterrorism division.While with the DSS, Burton was appointed by Washington to assist in the investigation of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzhak_Rabin" title="Yitzhak Rabin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Yitzhak Rabin</a>. He also investigated the killing of Rabbi <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meir_Kahane" title="Meir Kahane" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Meir Kahane</a>; the al Qaeda New York City bombing plots before the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks" title="September 11 attacks" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">September 11 attacks</a>; and the Libyan-backed terrorist attacks against diplomats in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sana%27a" class="mw-redirect" title="Sana'a" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Sana'a</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khartoum" title="Khartoum" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Khartoum</a>. He was involved in the arrest of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramzi_Yousef" title="Ramzi Yousef" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ramzi Yousef</a>, the mastermind of the first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center_bombing" class="mw-redirect" title="World Trade Center bombing" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">World Trade Center bombing</a> in 1993.Mr. Burton joined Stratfor, an Austin, Texas-based geopolitical forecasting and analysis company, in 2004. Reflections on his experiences as a counterterrorism agent are recorded in his series, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://worldview.stratfor.com/series/lessons-old-case-files" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" b4b84="b4b84" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">Lessons From Old Case Files</a>.Additionally, he was appointed to the Texas Border Security Council on September 11, 2007 by Governor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Perry" title="Rick Perry" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Rick Perry</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Burton(security_expert)#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a> In August 2009, he was hired as the Texas Department of Public Safety's Assistant Director for Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism but left after two months to pursue his writing and speaking career. Burton regularly briefs corporate executive teams on security related issues and speaks at a variety of both public and private events, including the Southern Law Network's 18th Annual General Counsel Event<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Burton(security_expert)#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a> On Oct. 12, 2017, he moderated a panel at the Fourth Annual Texas National Security Forum at The University of Texas at Austin with former acting Director of Central Intelligence John McLaughlin, former Acting Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency David Shedd, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Intelligence and Analysis Leslie Ireland and former Under Secretary of Defense Marcel Lettre<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Burton(security_expert)#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a>.<h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;">Books[</h2>Burton is the author of a memoir, Ghost: Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent, published by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_House" title="Random House" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Random House</a> in 2008,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Burton(security_expert)#cite_note-randomhouse-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a> and Chasing Shadows: A Special Agent's Lifelong Hunt to Bring a Cold War Assassin to Justice, published by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palgrave_Macmillan" title="Palgrave Macmillan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Palgrave Macmillan</a> in 2011.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Burton(security_expert)#cite_note-macmillan-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a>Under Fire: The Untold Story of the Attack in Benghazi, written by Burton and Samuel M. Katz, was published by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.Martin%27s_Press" title="St. Martin's Press" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">St. Martin's Press</a> in September 2013 and was a New York Times bestseller. [Vanity Fair] ran a lengthy excerpt from the book shortly before it was published.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Burton(security_expert)#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[9]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HBO" title="HBO" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">HBO</a> has purchased the film rights to the book, with executive producer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Weintraub" title="Jerry Weintraub" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Jerry Weintraub</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Burton(security_expert)#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[10]</a> to oversee production.In addition to his own memoirs, Burton has been referenced or portrayed in other books, including 1000 Years for Revenge: International Terrorism and the FBI -- Untold Story<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Burton(security_expert)#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a> by former ABC News correspondent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Lance" title="Peter Lance" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Peter Lance</a> and a commemorative book of photos published by the Department of State Diplomatic Security Service, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.dssaa.org/PDFs/Logo%20Merchandise%20Catalog%20Condensed%201.16.2014.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" upload.wikimedia.org="upload.wikimedia.org" wikipedia="wikipedia" commons="commons" icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif="Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">25 Years in Pictures</a>.Burton's involvement in the search for and capture of Ramzi Yousef was chronicled in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.amazon.com/Relentless-Pursuit-Manhunt-Al-Qaeda-Terrorists/dp/0765304023/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1393121935&sr=1-1&keywords=0765304023" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" b4b84="b4b84" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">Relentless Pursuit: The DSS and the Manhunt for the Al-Qaeda Terrorists</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Katz" title="Sam Katz" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Sam Katz</a> (Forge, 2002). The acquaintance that was formed as Katz was writing this book led to his collaboration with Burton more than a decade later on Under Fire.Burton contributed a sidebar article to the book <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.amazon.com/Countering-Hate-Bob-Pearson/dp/0999662309/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1520887627&sr=8-1&keywords=countering+hate" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" b4b84="b4b84" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">Countering Hate</a> by Bob Pearson and Haroon K. Ullah called "Pushing the Boulder Up a Hill: Why Are Terrorist Operations Successful." Marking the book's release in March 2018, Burton appeared with Pearson and Ullah for a panel at SXSW called <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.stratfor.com/horizons/stratfor-sxsw-2018-terrorism-understanding-and-stopping-extremism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" b4b84="b4b84" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">Countering Hate: Understanding and Stopping Extremism</a>.Burton's latest book,Beirut Rules,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Burton(security_expert)#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a> is co-written with Samuel Katz and will be released by Penguin Random House h in October of 2018.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Burton(security_expert)#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a> The book chronicles the abduction, torture and murder of CIA Station Chief William Buckley by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah" title="Hezbollah" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Hezbollah</a> in the early 1980s. After reading Beirut Rules, former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H.W.Bush" title="George H. W. Bush" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">President George H.W. Bush</a> said: “In these pages, Fred Burton and Samuel Katz ably describe the selfless service and ultimate sacrifice of CIA’s William F. Buckley, murdered brutally while held as a hostage in Lebanon. Beirut Rules can’t bring this quiet hero back to life. But it will show a new generation the value of a life well lived in service of country.”[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]<h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;">Film and TV appearances[</h2>Burton is frequently interviewed as a security expert by world news media on topics ranging from terrorist attacks to corporate security and U.S.-Mexico border security.He appeared in the documentary "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.drugwarsthemovie.com/thefilm.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" b4b84="b4b84" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">Drug Wars</a>," by writer/director <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3018171/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" b4b84="b4b84" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">Gary "Rusty" Fleming</a> (2008). He also was featured in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4502751/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" b4b84="b4b84" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">Liora Amir Barmatz</a>'s 2011 documentary, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ruthfilms.com/films/new-releases/who-shot-my-father.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" b4b84="b4b84" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">Who Shot My Father?</a>", about the 1973 murder of Israeli Air Force colonel Joe Alon and his family's subsequent quest to solve the case.In May 2008, Burton was interviewed on Comedy Central's <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cc.com/video-clips/11480v/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-fred-burton" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" b4b84="b4b84" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">The Daily Show</a> by host <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Stewart" title="Jon Stewart" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jon Stewart</a>. He regularly speaks with national and international media on counterterrorism, law enforcement and other security related matters, including the October 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Burton(security_expert)#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a>In July 2016, Burton sat down with <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/terrorism-nice-fred-burton-000000450.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" b4b84="b4b84" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">Yahoo Finance</a> Editor-in-Chief Andy Serwer to discuss how corporate executives are responding to recent international terrorist attacks. In November 2016, Burton was featured in a <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/28/trumps-election-suddenly-created-an-awful-lot-of-international-trump-branded-targets-for-terrorists/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" b4b84="b4b84" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">Washington Post</a> story on the potential threats to Trump-branded properties around the world after the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States.<h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;">References[</h2><div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); column-width: 30em;"><ol class="references" style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-parent 0 list-item 0;"><li id="cite_note-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Burton(security_expert)#cite_ref-1" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite id="CITEREFNicholas_JohnstonKate_Andersen_Brower2011" class="citation news cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Nicholas Johnston; Kate Andersen Brower (4 May 2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-04/bin-laden-killed-after-wife-shot-while-rushing-commando-u-s-account-says.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" b4b84="b4b84" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"Bin Laden Killed After Wife Shot While Rushing Commando, U.S. Account Says"</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg_Television" title="Bloomberg Television" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bloomberg</a>. Retrieved 21 May 2011. <q style="quotes: " apos="apos">Fred Burton, the vice president of intelligence at Stratfor, discusses the killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden during a U.S. raid in Pakistan yesterday.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Bloomberg&rft.atitle=Bin+Laden+Killed+After+Wife+Shot+While+Rushing+Commando%2C+U.S.+Account+Says&rft.date=2011-05-04&rft.au=Nicholas+Johnston&rft.au=Kate+Andersen+Brower&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.com%2Fnews%2F2011-05-04%2Fbin-laden-killed-after-wife-shot-while-rushing-commando-u-s-account-says.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFred+Burton+%28security+expert%29" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Burton(security_expert)#cite_ref-2" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite class="citation news cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/oreilly/transcript/al-qaedas-future-after-bin-laden" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" b4b84="b4b84" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"Al Qaeda's Future After Bin Laden"</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_Channel" class="mw-redirect" title="Fox News Channel" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Fox News Channel</a>. 3 May 2011. Retrieved 21 May 2011. <q style="quotes: " apos="apos">Joining us now from Austin, Texas, is Fred Burton, the vice president of Intelligence for Stratfor.com.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Fox+News+Channel&rft.atitle=Al+Qaeda%27s+Future+After+Bin+Laden&rft.date=2011-05-03&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fon-air%2Foreilly%2Ftranscript%2Fal-qaedas-future-after-bin-laden&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFred+Burton+%28security+expert%29" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Burton(security_expert)#cite_ref-3" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite id="CITEREFMann2011" class="citation news cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Mann, Jessica (15 July 2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thejc.com/arts/books/51764/review-chasing-shadows" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" b4b84="b4b84" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"author"</a>. Jewish Chronicle Online. 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Retrieved 2017-10-24.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=VIDEO%3A+Texas+National+Security+Forum%3A+Alliances+and+Partnerships+in+American+National+Security+-+Intelligence+Studies+Project&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fintelligencestudies.utexas.edu%2Fevents%2Fitem%2F596-texas-national-security-forum-alliances-and-partnerships-in-american-national-security%3Fmc_cid%3D65969f2091%26mc_eid%3D63eabaf9b8&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFred+Burton+%28security+expert%29" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-randomhouse-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Burton(security_expert)#cite_ref-randomhouse_7-0" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite class="citation web cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.randomhouse.com/acmart/catalog/author.pperl?authorid=72572" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" b4b84="b4b84" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"Fred Burton: author spotlight"</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_House" title="Random House" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Random House</a>. Retrieved 21 May 2011. <q style="quotes: " apos="apos">Fred Burton is one of the world’s foremost experts on security, terrorists, and terrorist organizations. He is vice president of intelligence at Stratfor, an influential private intelligence company. He is the former deputy chief of the Diplomatic Security Service, the Department of State’s counterterrorism division.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Random+House&rft.atitle=Fred+Burton%3A+author+spotlight&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.randomhouse.com%2Facmart%2Fcatalog%2Fauthor.pperl%3Fauthorid%3D72572&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFred+Burton+%28security+expert%29" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-macmillan-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Burton(security_expert)#cite_ref-macmillan_8-0" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite class="citation web cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://us.macmillan.com/chasingshadows" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" b4b84="b4b84" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"Chasing Shadows: A Special Agent's Lifelong Hunt to Bring a Cold War Assassin to Justice"</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macmillan_Publishers" title="Macmillan Publishers" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Macmillan Publishers</a>. Retrieved 21 May 2011. <q style="quotes: " apos="apos">On a warm Saturday night in July 1973 in Bethesda Maryland, a gunman stepped out from behind a tree and fired five point-blank shots into Joe Alon, an unassuming Israeli Air Force pilot and family man. Alon's sixteen-year-old neighbor, Fred Burton, was deeply shocked by this crime that rocked his sleepy suburban neighborhood.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Macmillan+Publishers&rft.atitle=Chasing+Shadows%3A+A+Special+Agent%27s+Lifelong+Hunt+to+Bring+a+Cold+War+Assassin+to+Justice&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fus.macmillan.com%2Fchasingshadows&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFred+Burton+%28security+expert%29" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Burton(security_expert)#cite_ref-9" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite id="CITEREFBurton" class="citation web cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Burton, Fred. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/politics/2013/08/benghazi-book-fred-burton-samuel-m-katz" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" b4b84="b4b84" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"The Real Story of Benghazi, a "Landscape Littered with Murders and Betrayals""</a>. The Hive.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=The+Hive&rft.atitle=The+Real+Story+of+Benghazi%2C+a+%E2%80%9CLandscape+Littered+with+Murders+and+Betrayals%E2%80%9D&rft.aulast=Burton&rft.aufirst=Fred&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vanityfair.com%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2F2013%2F08%2Fbenghazi-book-fred-burton-samuel-m-katz&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFred+Burton+%28security+expert%29" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Burton(security_expert)#cite_ref-10" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite class="citation news cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/benghazi-movie-jerry-weintraub-development-632861" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" b4b84="b4b84" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"Hollywood Reporter"</a>. Hollywood Reporter. 20 September 2013. 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Chip Harmon<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a> was appointed president in February 2018. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Burton(security_expert)" title="Fred Burton (security expert)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Fred Burton</a> is Stratfor's chief security officer.Other executives include vice president of global analysis, Reva Goujon,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a> senior vice president of strategic analysis, Rodger Baker<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a> former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.Special_Operations_Command" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Special Operations Command" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">U.S. Special Operations Command</a> officer Bret Boyd, vice president of custom intelligence services.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a><div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 7px; display: table;"><ul style="list-style-image: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#Products" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1Products</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#Books_and_media" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2Books and media</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#Subscribers" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3Subscribers</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#Funding" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4Funding</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#Structure_and_operations" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5Structure and operations</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#Events" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6Events</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#Incidents" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">7Incidents</a><ul style="list-style-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#2011_hacking_incident" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">7.12011 hacking incident</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#2012_leak" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">7.22012 leak</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">8References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#Further_reading" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">9Further reading</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">10External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;">Products[</h2><table class="box-Advert plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Advert" role="presentation" style="margin: 0px 104.137px; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 10px; 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Its rise to prominence occurred with the release of its Kosovo Crisis Center during the 1999 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO" title="NATO" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">NATO</a> airstrikes over <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo" title="Kosovo" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Kosovo</a>, which led to publicity in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Time</a> magazine, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Monthly" title="Texas Monthly" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Texas Monthly</a>, and other publications.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a> Before the end of 1999, however, Stratfor had introduced a subscription service through which it offered the majority of its analyses. At the time of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11,2001_attacks" class="mw-redirect" title="September 11, 2001 attacks" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">September 11, 2001 attacks</a>, Stratfor made its "breaking news" paragraphs, as well as some notable analyses predicting likely actions to be taken by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda" title="Al-Qaeda" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">al-Qaeda</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bush</a> administration, available freely to the public.Stratfor's publishing business includes written and multimedia analysis available online or through an API, as well as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone" title="IPhone" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">iPhone</a> and Android mobile applications.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a> Stratfor Threat Lens, an enterprise level product launched in September 2016, offers specific insight and analysis to support <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_security" title="Corporate security" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">corporate security</a> leaders. In April 2017, the company launched its core online publication under the name Stratfor Worldview.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a> Some of Stratfor's work remains available free to the public.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;">Books and media[</h2>Stratfor has published collections of analysis in paperback and as e-books on a variety of topics. Topics include user guides to personal security,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#cite_note-The_Wall_Street_Shuffle_podcast'-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a> the "devolution of jihadism," and the U.S. war in Afghanistan, according to a series of promotional videos on the company's YouTube channel. Apparently, at one point, the books were sold through a storefront on the company's website. Stratfor e-books and long form analyses are now available through a dedicated, on-site store.A number of the company's top analysts have published books in their own name. Notable among these are founder <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Friedman" title="George Friedman" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">George Friedman</a> and vice president for intelligence <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Burton(security_expert)" title="Fred Burton (security expert)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Fred Burton</a>. Kamran Bokhari, Stratfor's former vice president for Middle East and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asian" class="mw-redirect" title="South Asian" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">South Asian</a> affairs, is the author (with Farid Senzai) of Political Islam in the Age of Democratization (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palgrave_Macmillan" title="Palgrave Macmillan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Palgrave Macmillan</a>, 2013). Reviewer Amani el Sehrawey called the book "an invaluable tool for those seeking to gain knowledge of the nuances of the political systems of the Muslim world from a historical perspective, as well as to understand the contemporary changes happening in the region."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barron%27s_Magazine" class="mw-redirect" title="Barron's Magazine" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Barron's</a> once referred to Stratfor as "The Shadow CIA".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#cite_note-Barrons-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a> Barrons' Jonathan Laing has called Friedman "one of our favorite experts on geopolitics," saying, "His judgments tend to be more nuanced and long-term than those of the press or Wall Street."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a> More recently, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Atlantic" title="The Atlantic" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Atlantic</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Fallows" title="James Fallows" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">James Fallows</a> referenced a Stratfor article on U.S. strategy in Iraq and Ukraine, following outbreaks of turmoil in those regions.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a>Friedman resigned from the company in 2015 to launch a new company, Geopolitical Futures.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;">Subscribers[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stratfor&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Subscribers" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a>]</h2>The member and client list for Stratfor is confidential, but the company says it includes <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_500" title="Fortune 500" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Fortune 500</a> companies, universities and international government agencies as well as professionals who purchase an individual membership.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;">Funding[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stratfor&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Funding" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a>]</h2>In October 2015, Stratfor raised $12 million in funding through a growth equity investment by Dallas-based Teakwood Capital.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a> Stratfor's plan for the funding includes expanding its intelligence networks, enhancing operational infrastructure and moving into frontier markets.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#cite_note-states-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;">Structure and operations[</h2>Stratfor clients have included academic institutions, investment firms and large corporations such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin" title="Lockheed Martin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Lockheed Martin</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldman_Sachs" title="Goldman Sachs" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Goldman Sachs</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_America" title="Bank of America" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bank of America</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola" title="Coca-Cola" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Coca-Cola</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Chemical_Company" title="Dow Chemical Company" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Dow Chemical Company</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#cite_note-rs280212-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#cite_note-nbc280212-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#cite_note-yahoo280212-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a>In 2008 the company was reported to have 40 full time employees in Austin. It selects interns from the nearby <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Texas" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Texas" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">University of Texas</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#cite_note-nbc280212-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a>Stratfor analysts pay for information but also use open source information to predict where global crises will arise. Stratfor also obtains information by way of personal networks. Fred Burton indicated in leaked emails that he maintained contact with his "trusted former CIA cronies" as a source of information and that he was aware of the sealed indictment against <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange" title="Julian Assange" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Julian Assange</a> in 2011.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#cite_note-nbc280212-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#cite_note-rs280212-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;">Events[</h2>In October 2017, Stratfor sponsored the 2017 Texas National Security Forum organized by Clements Center for National Security, the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law, and the Intelligence Studies Project at The University of Texas at Austin.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[21]</a> The theme was "Alliances and Partnerships in American National Security." The event included a keynote address by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pompeo" title="Mike Pompeo" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Michael Pompeo</a>, then director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and later U.S. Secretary of State. Stratfor Chief Security Officer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Burton(security_expert)" title="Fred Burton (security expert)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Fred Burton</a> moderated a panel that included former Acting Director of Central Intelligence John McLaughlin and former Acting Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shedd" title="David Shedd" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">David Shedd</a>.<h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;">Incidents[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stratfor&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Incidents" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a>]</h2><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6;">2011 hacking incident[</h3>It was reported on December 24, 2011 that members of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous(group)" title="Anonymous (group)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Anonymous</a> had stolen e-mail messages from Stratfor's website.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a> In November 2013, computer hacker <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Hammond" title="Jeremy Hammond" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jeremy Hammond</a> was sentenced to ten years in federal prison for his role in the Anonymous attack.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a> An FBI informant, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector_Xavier_Monsegur" class="mw-redirect" title="Hector Xavier Monsegur" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Hector Xavier Monsegur</a> (also known as "Sabu"), initially faced 124 years in prison for his role in the attack, but his sentence was reduced to time served plus one year's supervised release in May 2014 in exchange for his cooperation as an FBI informant.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[24]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6;">2012 leak[</h3><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" style="padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;">Main article: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Stratfor_email_leak" class="mw-redirect" title="2012 Stratfor email leak" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2012 Stratfor email leak</a></div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks" title="WikiLeaks" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">WikiLeaks</a> announced the initial publication of more than five million of Stratfor's e-mail messages on February 26, 2012.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#cite_note-The_Global_Intelligence_Files-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a> Anonymous claimed to have provided WikiLeaks with the data.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[26]</a> George Friedman stated that third parties may have forged or altered the e-mail messages, but that Stratfor would not validate either alterations or authenticity.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#cite_note-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a> Stratfor condemned the release as "deplorable".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#cite_note-stratfor_hacking_news-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;">References[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stratfor&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a>]</h2><div class="reflist columns references-column-width" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.3em; column-width: 30em; list-style-type: decimal;"><ol class="references" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 3.2em; 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Retrieved 4 April 2019.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Austin+American-Statesman&rft.atitle=Austin%27s+Stratfor+raises+%2412+million+to+fund+growth&rft.date=2018-09-25&rft.aulast=Grisales&rft.aufirst=Claudia&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.statesman.com%2Fbusiness%2F20160904%2Faustins-stratfor-raises-12-million-to-fund-growth&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AStratfor" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#cite_ref-2" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite class="citation pressrelease cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.stratfor.com/horizons/stratfor-appoints-chip-harmon-president-lead-next-phase-growth" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" b4b84="b4b84" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"Stratfor Appoints Chip Harmon as President to Lead Next Phase of Growth"</a>(Press release). 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NBC News. AP. Retrieved 28 October 2019.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Leaked+emails+shine+rare+light+on+Stratfor&rft.date=2012-02-28&rft.aulast=Weber&rft.aufirst=Paul+J.&rft.au=Satter%2C+Raphael&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcnews.com%2Fid%2F46555168%2Fns%2Fus_news-security%2Ft%2Fleaked-emails-shine-rare-light-stratfor%2F%23.XbZ6Fi1L0cg&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AStratfor" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-yahoo280212-20" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#cite_ref-yahoo280212_20-0" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite id="CITEREFVinogradSatter2012" class="citation news cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Vinograd, Cassandra; Satter, Raphael (28 February 2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/wikileaks-publishes-leaked-stratfor-emails-135816242.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" b4b84="b4b84" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"WikiLeaks publishes leaked Stratfor emails"</a>. Yahoo. AP. Retrieved 28 October 2019.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=WikiLeaks+publishes+leaked+Stratfor+emails&rft.date=2012-02-28&rft.aulast=Vinograd&rft.aufirst=Cassandra&rft.au=Satter%2C+Raphael&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fwikileaks-publishes-leaked-stratfor-emails-135816242.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AStratfor" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-21" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#cite_ref-21" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite id="CITEREFDockery" class="citation web cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Dockery, Carolyn. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.strausscenter.org/event/511.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" b4b84="b4b84" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"2017 Texas National Security Forum"</a>. www.strausscenter.org. 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Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970203479104577120530217909036" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" b4b84="b4b84" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">the original</a> on December 26, 2011.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Anonymous+Claims+Hack+of+Credit+Data+From+Security+Group&rft.date=2011-12-25&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Farticles%2FSB10001424052970203479104577120530217909036&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AStratfor" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-23" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#cite_ref-23" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite id="CITEREFKopfstein2013" class="citation news cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Kopfstein, Janus (21 November 2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/11/jeremy-hammond-and-anonymous-hacker-with-a-cause.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" b4b84="b4b84" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"Hacker with a Cause"</a>. The New Yorker. Retrieved 8 March 2014.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+Yorker&rft.atitle=Hacker+with+a+Cause&rft.date=2013-11-21&rft.aulast=Kopfstein&rft.aufirst=Janus&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Fonline%2Fblogs%2Felements%2F2013%2F11%2Fjeremy-hammond-and-anonymous-hacker-with-a-cause.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AStratfor" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-24" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#cite_ref-24" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite id="CITEREFPilkington2014" class="citation news cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Pilkington, Ed (May 27, 2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/27/hacker-sabu-walks-free-sentenced-time-served" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" b4b84="b4b84" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"LulzSec hacker 'Sabu' released after 'extraordinary' FBI cooperation"</a>. The Guardian. Retrieved 26 June 2014.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=LulzSec+hacker+%27Sabu%27+released+after+%27extraordinary%27+FBI+cooperation&rft.date=2014-05-27&rft.aulast=Pilkington&rft.aufirst=Ed&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Ftechnology%2F2014%2Fmay%2F27%2Fhacker-sabu-walks-free-sentenced-time-served&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AStratfor" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-The_Global_Intelligence_Files-25" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#cite_ref-The_Global_Intelligence_Files_25-0" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite class="citation news cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://wikileaks.org/the-gifiles.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" b4b84="b4b84" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"The Global Intelligence Files"</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks" title="WikiLeaks" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">WikiLeaks</a>. February 27, 2012.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=WikiLeaks&rft.atitle=The+Global+Intelligence+Files&rft.date=2012-02-27&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwikileaks.org%2Fthe-gifiles.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AStratfor" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-26" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#cite_ref-26" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite id="CITEREFAndy_Greenberg" class="citation web cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Andy Greenberg. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/02/27/wikileaks-tightens-ties-to-anonymous-in-leak-of-stratfor-emails/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" b4b84="b4b84" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"WikiLeaks Tightens Ties To Anonymous In Leak Of Stratfor Emails"</a>. Forbes. Retrieved 2012-02-27.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Forbes&rft.atitle=WikiLeaks+Tightens+Ties+To+Anonymous+In+Leak+Of+Stratfor+Emails&rft.au=Andy+Greenberg&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Fandygreenberg%2F2012%2F02%2F27%2Fwikileaks-tightens-ties-to-anonymous-in-leak-of-stratfor-emails%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AStratfor" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-27" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#cite_ref-27" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite class="citation news cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://stratfor.com/hacking-news/subscriber-info" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" b4b84="b4b84" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"George Friedman on Email Theft and the WikiLeaks Release"</a>. Stratfor. February 28, 2012. <q style="quotes: " apos="apos">Some of the emails may be forged or altered to include inaccuracies. Some may be authentic. We will not validate either [...]</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Stratfor&rft.atitle=George+Friedman+on+Email+Theft+and+the+WikiLeaks+Release&rft.date=2012-02-28&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fstratfor.com%2Fhacking-news%2Fsubscriber-info&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AStratfor" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-stratfor_hacking_news-28" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#cite_ref-stratfor_hacking_news_28-0" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite class="citation news cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://stratfor.com/hacking-news" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" b4b84="b4b84" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"George Friedman on Email Theft and the WikiLeaks Release"</a>. Stratfor. February 28, 2012.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Stratfor&rft.atitle=George+Friedman+on+Email+Theft+and+the+WikiLeaks+Release&rft.date=2012-02-28&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fstratfor.com%2Fhacking-news&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AStratfor" class="Z3988" /></li></ol></div><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;">Further reading[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stratfor&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Further reading" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a>]</h2><ul style="list-style-image: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" d4515="d4515" margin="margin" em="em" px="px" padding="padding"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><cite id="CITEREFFriedman,George2005" class="citation book cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Friedman, George (2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Cz0qT-m1WdsC" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" b4b84="b4b84" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">America's secret war: inside the hidden worldwide struggle between the United States and its enemies</a>. Random House. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">ISBN</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7679-1785-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7679-1785-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><bdi>978-0-7679-1785-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=America%27s+secret+war%3A+inside+the+hidden+worldwide+struggle+between+the+United+States+and+its+enemies&rft.pub=Random+House&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=978-0-7679-1785-8&rft.au=Friedman%2C+George&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DCz0qT-m1WdsC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AStratfor" class="Z3988" /></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Friedman, George, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20090420_torture_and_u_s_intelligence_failure#axzz3LQKKLpE1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" b4b84="b4b84" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">Torture and the U.S. Intelligence Failure</a>, Stratfor, Geopolitical Weekly, April 20, 2009</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Judson, David, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/geopolitical-intelligence-political-journalism-and-wants-vs-needs" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" b4b84="b4b84" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">Geopolitical Intelligence, Political Journalism and "Wants" vs. "Needs"</a>, Stratfor, October 29, 2013</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Judson, David, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/stratfor-test-being-rorschach-test" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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