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The following is just a selection of the terms and definitions that could further complicate Stratfors already sticky situation. Some are so bluntly-worded they raise the possibility that this was some kind of internal joke:
ATF Alcohol Tobacco and Fire Arms. Rednecks with a license to kill. Never, ever, ever ask for their help on anything.
Black Op If you heard even a hint of it, it aint black. Anyone who tells you about a black op is a liar. Does Stratfor do black ops? Youll never know.
CIA Central Intelligence Agency. Also called Langley or up river. Owns human intelligence (directorate of operations) and analysis (directorate of intelligence). Director, CIA is supposed to oversee all of the intelligence community. Isnt that a joke? Imagine the Post Office with a foreign policy.
Duplicitous little bastards Israeli Intelligence
FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation, aka the Downtown Gang. Very good a breaking up used car rings. Kind of confused on anything more complicated. Fun to jerk with. Not fun when they jerk back.
Secret Service They catch counterfeiters, break up child pornography rings and guard the president. Continual identity crisis. Very nice people. Not, shall we say, the most sophisticated crew youll ever find.
Link to glossary in full here:
http://www.observer.com/2012/02/anonymous-wikileaks-stratfor-leak-stratfors-glossary-may-be-huge-blow/
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)Yes, Jedgar liked to pop a dress on once in a while, just to kind of kick back and relax with Clyde. The dress is classified Top Secret and kept in a vault in the basement of the Hoover Bldg. Play with that thought for a while and then decide if this profession is for you.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Because it makes fun of people????
Holy Shite...please tell me there's more there....
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)for LULZ
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Generic Other
(28,979 posts)I suspect that something like this that mocks all their friends and enemies alike will not inspire confidence. A PR blow.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Mockery of friends and enemies happens in every organization....particularly any LE org.
MADem
(135,425 posts)sofa king
(10,857 posts)... Miss Anthrope!
The Devil's Dictionary is gonna generate a lot of smiles today:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/972
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)A source who is betraying his country for ideological, religious, patriotic or other unreliable beliefs. Very dangerous person. He could change his mind.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)An efficient means for turning complex and sophisticated analysis into half-witted bullets. If you cant read a 50 page analysis before invading a country or buying a company, you probably shouldnt be in the business. Single most destructive invention known to man.
MattBaggins
(7,904 posts)Generic Other
(28,979 posts)Member of intelligence team whose primary contribution is the making PowerPoint presentations. Usually assigned to least competent member of the team to keep him out of trouble. Winds up controlling the operation because management keeps promoting him because he makes neat animations.
aikoaiko
(34,170 posts)tsuki
(11,994 posts)Definition:
Compromised - General term referring to a disastrous condition. Your own op can be compromised. You may compromise a potential source to make him work for you. Your source may be compromised by someone else. Interchangeable with abgefukt.
Thank you Wikileaks for saving the best for first.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)LOL.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)The Business of STRATFOR
After fifteen years in business it surprises me sometimes how many people wonder about who we are, who funds us, and what we do. The media refers to us as a think tank, a political risk consultancy, a security company and worse--academics. The Russian media calls us part of the CIA. Arab countries say we are Israelis. Its wild. The only things we havent been called is a hardware store or Druids. Given this confusion, I thought it might be useful to occasionally write to our members about the business of STRATFOR, on topics ranging from our business model to how we gather intelligence.
Let me start with basics. STRATFOR is a publishing company and it publishes one productour online intelligence service. STRATFOR focuses on one subject, international relations. It uses intelligence rather than journalistic methods to collect information (a topic for a later discussion) and geopolitics as an analytic method for understanding the world.
Stratfor currently has about 292,000 paying subscribers, divided between individual subscribers and institutional ones. This inflates our subscriber base. There are many organizations that buy site licenses for all or many of their employees. We know that most of them never read us. From a strictly factual point of view, 292,000 paid readers is the number. Practically it is less but we dont know how much less. On the other hand, our free material, two weekly pieces that are sent to our free list and then circulates virally as they say, has been estimated to reach about 2.2 million readers each week. Where our paid subscription is certainly increased by an unknown degree, this is probably and accurate number.
http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/84934_re-the-business-of-stratfor-.html
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)JTTF - Joint Terrorism Task Force, an inter-agency group created to completely confuse all conceivable issues related to terrorism in a variety of metropolitan areas.
also
Smiley - A man who is much smarter than he looks. Hes schooling you all the time you thought you were doing him. From John LeCarres George Smiley. Never screw with a Smiley. If a man looks too dumb to reproduce, first check his Smiley quotient.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Now the joke is on them...