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Generic Other

(28,979 posts)
Mon Feb 27, 2012, 01:45 PM Feb 2012

Anonymous-Wikileaks Stratfor Leak: Stratfor’s ‘Glossary’ May Be Huge Blow

The following is just a selection of the terms and definitions that could further complicate Stratfor’s 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 ain’t black. Anyone who tells you about a black op is a liar. Does Stratfor do black ops? You’ll 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. Isn’t 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 you’ll ever find.

Link to glossary in full here:

http://www.observer.com/2012/02/anonymous-wikileaks-stratfor-leak-stratfors-glossary-may-be-huge-blow/

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Anonymous-Wikileaks Stratfor Leak: Stratfor’s ‘Glossary’ May Be Huge Blow (Original Post) Generic Other Feb 2012 OP
Hoover’s Dress Generic Other Feb 2012 #1
I laughed out loud about the FBI one...knr joeybee12 Feb 2012 #2
I didn't make it quite that far before I cracked up.. Fumesucker Feb 2012 #3
Sounds like someone read Ambrose Bierce. How, precisely, is this a huge blow? msanthrope Feb 2012 #4
This is just their glossary of terms Generic Other Feb 2012 #7
But how is this a "Huge Blow?" nt msanthrope Feb 2012 #8
I copied the headline as I found it Generic Other Feb 2012 #9
Not really...none of their clients will recognize themselves as a Clancy. msanthrope Feb 2012 #11
Yep, not a "huge blow." Just a shits-n-giggles insider joke. nt MADem Feb 2012 #20
I should have had you pegged as an Ambrose Bierce fan... sofa king Feb 2012 #19
Patriot Generic Other Feb 2012 #5
PowerPoint Presentation Generic Other Feb 2012 #6
No that one is funny. MattBaggins Feb 2012 #17
PowerPoint Ranger Generic Other Feb 2012 #18
Thank you for the new sig line. aikoaiko Feb 2012 #10
Looks like Stratfor may be abgefukt. tsuki Feb 2012 #12
Oh yes they are! Generic Other Feb 2012 #13
The Mission statement: The Business of STRATFOR Generic Other Feb 2012 #14
Joint Terrorism Task Force FarCenter Feb 2012 #15
kick Dawson Leery Feb 2012 #16
smug bastards, aren't they?? Blue_Tires Mar 2012 #21

Generic Other

(28,979 posts)
1. Hoover’s Dress
Mon Feb 27, 2012, 01:48 PM
Feb 2012

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.

 

msanthrope

(37,549 posts)
4. Sounds like someone read Ambrose Bierce. How, precisely, is this a huge blow?
Mon Feb 27, 2012, 01:55 PM
Feb 2012

Because it makes fun of people????

Holy Shite...please tell me there's more there....

Generic Other

(28,979 posts)
9. I copied the headline as I found it
Mon Feb 27, 2012, 02:10 PM
Feb 2012

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)
11. Not really...none of their clients will recognize themselves as a Clancy.
Mon Feb 27, 2012, 02:20 PM
Feb 2012

Mockery of friends and enemies happens in every organization....particularly any LE org.

sofa king

(10,857 posts)
19. I should have had you pegged as an Ambrose Bierce fan...
Tue Feb 28, 2012, 04:45 PM
Feb 2012

... 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)
5. Patriot
Mon Feb 27, 2012, 01:55 PM
Feb 2012

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)
6. PowerPoint Presentation
Mon Feb 27, 2012, 01:56 PM
Feb 2012

An efficient means for turning complex and sophisticated analysis into half-witted bullets. If you can’t read a 50 page analysis before invading a country or buying a company, you probably shouldn’t be in the business. Single most destructive invention known to man.

Generic Other

(28,979 posts)
18. PowerPoint Ranger
Mon Feb 27, 2012, 06:34 PM
Feb 2012

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.

tsuki

(11,994 posts)
12. Looks like Stratfor may be abgefukt.
Mon Feb 27, 2012, 03:09 PM
Feb 2012

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)
14. The Mission statement: The Business of STRATFOR
Mon Feb 27, 2012, 03:23 PM
Feb 2012

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. It’s wild. The only things we haven’t 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 product—our 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 don’t 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)
15. Joint Terrorism Task Force
Mon Feb 27, 2012, 03:45 PM
Feb 2012

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. He’s schooling you all the time you thought you were doing him. From John LeCarre’s George Smiley. Never screw with a Smiley. If a man looks too dumb to reproduce, first check his Smiley quotient.

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