Wikileaks is putting The Global Intelligence Files online–a collection of millions of emails compromised from Stratfor by Anonymous in December. Wikileaks says there is evidence buried within of questionable motives and methods used by the Texas-based security intelligence firm to subvert a range of targets, including Wikileaks itself.
On the surface, Stratfor is a geopolitical risk analysis organization that simply gathers information, and filters the information–along with some expert analysis–out to its customers. Anonymous, on the other hand, has called Stratfor a “shadow CIA”, and believes that the company is not really what it portrays itself to be.
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