London (dpa) – WikiLeaks on Monday started to release more than 5 million emails written by or to the US intelligence company Stratfor, the whistleblower organization said. The emails were written between July 2004 and late December, and “show Stratfor's web of informers, pay-off structure, payment-laundering techniques and psychological methods,” WikiLeaks said in a statement on its website. Stratfor's headquarters in Texas did not respond to a request for comment. More than 4,000 of the emails being released mentioned WikiLeaks or its founder Julian Assange, the press release said. Assange is in Britain fighting a request to extradite him to Sweden to face sexual assault charges. He has claimed the charges are driven by his opponents out of revenge for WikiLeaks' activities. The whistleblower has released hundreds of thousands of confidential communications, including many written by US diplomats and intelligence agents over the past decade on sensitive topics such as the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Stratfor, or Strategic Forecasting Inc, provides intelligence services to a wide range of high-level clients, believed to include government agencies as well as large corporations. In December, the company was the target of a cyber attack by the hackers' group Anonymous, which published what they said were subscribers' names – which Stratfor makes a point of keeping confidential – as well as some of their credit card details. BM ShortURL: http://goo.gl/UiGCb Tags: Emails, Stratfor, Wikileaks Section: Tech
