Global Intelligence files

The US is the Don Corleone of international politics

This article is about the US attempts to destabilize Venezuela, as shown in the GIFiles released by Wikileaks. More widely, the article gives an historical background of US interventions in Latin America, and analyses its strategical behavior in this part of the world. Published on RT by Adrian Salbuchi on March 2, 2013.  (He is a political analyst, author, speaker and radio/TV commentator in Argentina.)   South America – Venezuela...

 
 

GiFiles: US Spying against Venezuela

This article is published in Radio Mundial on February 16, 2013. The article refers to files from the intelligence company Stratfor, published by WikiLeaks, detailing operations to monitor and influence the internal Venezuelan policies. The article stresses that the mails, apart from giving analysis about the political social, and economic situation in Venezuela,  explain how to promote a “revolution” in Venezuela: The three main objectives are: unify the opposition campaign...

 
 

GI Files: The Sinaloa Cartel could be present in Argentina (and Guatemala)

An article published by Argentinian newspaper “El Comercial” on February 19, 2013, says that a part of the activities of the Sinaloa Cartel  are organized from Argentina, referring to a Stratfor mail sent in 2008. The mail is based on conversations between the Stratfor employee and a source from the Mexican Foreign office. The source explained to the Stratfor employee that the Cartel was present in Argentina at this time,...

 
 

GI Files Peru: Russia offers weapons in exchange for gas.

WikiLeaks has just started publishing millions of documents about Latin America, which are part of the Strafor “global intelligence files”. In the case of Peru, the press today makes headlines about a negotiation between Russia and Peru to exchange Russian weapons for  Peruvian gas. “La Nacion” reports that, according to the Wikileaks document, the brother of Peruvian President Humala traveled to Moscow in June 2011, to discuss such an exchange....

 
 

San Diego CityBeat: What we learned from the Stratfor document dump

Valuable information about the border buried in WikiLeaks / Anonymous’ ‘Global Intelligence Files’ Published on San Diego CityBeat on Wednesday, Jan 09, 2013 by Dave Maass   Barrett Brown, the sort-of spokesperson and public face of the hacktivist group Anonymous, was indicted by a federal grand jury in December in connection with the theft of several million emails snatched from a well-known and well-connected private intelligence firm. The feds alleged...

 
 

Stratfor: Algerian Secret Services’ grip on power

Demonstrations in Algiers and Oran as protesters call for government to resign. source: Al Jazeera

On 27 February 2012, WikiLeaks began publishing 5 million emails – called the Global Intelligence Files – from the American global intelligence company Stratfor, which has been providing intelligence to private companies as well as the US government. Many of the emails discuss a figure seldom talked about in the media, General Mohammed Mediene – also known as Toufik – who is nonetheless a key actor in Algerian politics. The head of the powerful Algerian secret services, Mediene is one of the most secretive public figures in Algeria: there are only two official photos …