From SiliconAngle:
Wikileaks has returned with an astonishing release of more than five million emails from Stratfor, a Texas-based security intelligence company that is associated with CIA type of operations. The company has been the target of hackers in recent months. Though Wikileaks has not stated how it acquired the large cache of information, Anonymous members boasted of their partnership with Wikileaks in releasing this information.
The article quotes one of the Wikileaks dumps:
“Stratfor’s use of insiders for intelligence soon turned into a money-making scheme of questionable legality. The emails show that in 2009 then-Goldman Sachs Managing Director Shea Morenz and Stratfor CEO George Friedman hatched an idea to “utilise the intelligence” it was pulling in from its insider network to start up a captive strategic investment fund. […] CEO George Friedman explained in a confidential August 2011 document, marked DO NOT SHARE OR DISCUSS: “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””
Anonymous has posted an e-mail purported to be Stratfor CEO George Friedman’s resignation from the company.
SiliconAngle:Stratfor CEO to resign after Wikileaks releases 5mil emails – covert operations exposed
See also:
Anonymous Reveals Private Intelligence Firm Stratfor Infiltrated Occupy Austin
February 27, 2012 at 2:27 pm
He should resign. There is no coming back from that. This is why you don’t try and be scheming, it will come out.