Intelligence

Intelligence & Surveillance

First published 27 February 2012 · Stratfor (Strategic Forecasting Inc.); US National Security Agency · 2 releases

Private and state intelligence: millions of internal Stratfor emails, and NSA intercepts of three French presidents.

Overview

The Global Intelligence Files, which we began publishing in February 2012: internal emails from Stratfor, a Texas firm selling geopolitical analysis and confidential intelligence to corporate and government clients. More than five million emails from July 2004 to December 2011, taken in a December 2011 intrusion by hackers tied to Anonymous.

Espionnage Élysée, from June 2015: top-secret NSA summaries and targeting data on the communications of Presidents Chirac, Sarkozy and Hollande and their staff between 2006 and 2012, with documents on NSA economic-intelligence tasking against France.

What reporting revealed

More than five million Stratfor emails from July 2004 to late December 2011.
Jeremy Hammond was sentenced on 15 November 2013 to ten years for the Stratfor hack and other intrusions.
Stratfor said some emails might be forged and refused to validate any of them.
The NSA papers covered three successive French presidents between 2006 and 2012.
France summoned the US ambassador and Hollande called the spying unacceptable.

Collection record

First published	27 February 2012
Institution	Stratfor (Strategic Forecasting Inc.); US National Security Agency
Scope	2 releases
Material dated	July 2004 – 2012
Media partners	Al Akhbar, Al Masry Al Youm, Bivol, CIPER, Dawn, L'Espresso, La Repubblica, La Jornada, La Nación (Costa Rica), Malaysia Today, McClatchy, Nawaat, NDR/ARD, OWNI, Página/12, Plaza Pública, Público, Rolling Stone, Russian Reporter, Sunday Star-Times, Ta Nea, Taraf, The Hindu, The Yes Men, Libération, Mediapart

Original publication »wikileaks.org

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Catalogue records

Entries describing the release and related documents, with provenance and sources.

Published	Cat. no.	Title	Type
2015-06-23	FAN-0024	Espionnage Élysée: NSA targeting of French presidents Top-secret NSA intelligence summaries and a target list showing interception of communications of French presidents Chirac, Sarkozy and Hollande and their officials between 2006 and 2012.	Intelligence reports
2012-02-27	FAN-0017	The Global Intelligence Files (Stratfor) More than five million internal emails from Stratfor, a Texas-based private intelligence company, taken in a December 2011 hack and which I released with more than 25 media partners from February 2012.	Emails

Source

Intelligence & Surveillance — original release — wikileaks.org (Original publication)wikileaks.org