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ISRAEL HELPED RUSSIA HACK GEORGIAN DRONES - WIKILEAKS
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Gary Hershorn 16:44 29/02/2012MOSCOW, February 29 (RIA Novosti,
Alexey Eremenko)
A swap deal between Russia and Israel in 2008 provided the Russian
military with secret codes for Georgian drones, while Jerusalem
obtained access to information on Iranian missile systems, according
to fresh publications by Wikileaks.
Georgia purchases its unmanned aerial vehicles from Israel, which
later gave Moscow the "data link" code in exchange for codes for
Tor-M1 missile complexes that Russia sold to Iran, said a leaked
letter attributed to Stratfor private intelligence company.
Whistleblowing site Wikileaks announced on Sunday that it started to
publish some five million emails by Stratfor, or Strategic Forecasting
Inc., a Texas-based intelligence company founded in 1996 and attested
by media as the "shadow CIA."
Stratfor said that at least some emails could be authentic, but did
not elaborate. The company's website was hacked in 2011 by a group
of politicized hackers known as the Anonymous.
Stratfor's alleged email on the Russian-Israeli swap cited an unnamed
source described as a "former Mexican cop, Latam military analyst."
Georgia tried to purchase new drones from a private defense contractor
in Mexico in hopes of replacing those compromised in July 2008, a
month before its five-day war with Russia over the breakaway province
of South Ossetia, in which Russia emerged victorious.
Georgian officials also sought to purchase additional ammunition and
helicopters, but the deal fell through because the supplier, Idra,
was "advised that it would raise a lot of political complications
between Mexico and Russia," the source said.
"The Georgians were pretty much looking for anyone who would sell
to them and were willing to pay top dollar," the letter said, adding
in parantheses: "(This shows how frantic the Georgians were in July
knowing that war is coming.)"
Tbilisi later tried to sell the compromised drones to neighboring
Azerbaijan, but it remains unclear whether the deal was completed,
the source said.
No governments implicated in the deal have commented on the leak as
of Wednesday afternoon.
Stratfor's alleged emails disclosed earlier also named Russian
Prosecutor General Yury Chaika as an informant of the company, saying
he supplied it with data on turf wars in the Kremlin. Chaika's office
dismissed the report as "provocation."
REUTERS
Publications by Wikileaks
Gary Hershorn 16:44 29/02/2012MOSCOW, February 29 (RIA Novosti,
Alexey Eremenko)
A swap deal between Russia and Israel in 2008 provided the Russian
military with secret codes for Georgian drones, while Jerusalem
obtained access to information on Iranian missile systems, according
to fresh publications by Wikileaks.
Georgia purchases its unmanned aerial vehicles from Israel, which
later gave Moscow the "data link" code in exchange for codes for
Tor-M1 missile complexes that Russia sold to Iran, said a leaked
letter attributed to Stratfor private intelligence company.
Whistleblowing site Wikileaks announced on Sunday that it started to
publish some five million emails by Stratfor, or Strategic Forecasting
Inc., a Texas-based intelligence company founded in 1996 and attested
by media as the "shadow CIA."
Stratfor said that at least some emails could be authentic, but did
not elaborate. The company's website was hacked in 2011 by a group
of politicized hackers known as the Anonymous.
Stratfor's alleged email on the Russian-Israeli swap cited an unnamed
source described as a "former Mexican cop, Latam military analyst."
Georgia tried to purchase new drones from a private defense contractor
in Mexico in hopes of replacing those compromised in July 2008, a
month before its five-day war with Russia over the breakaway province
of South Ossetia, in which Russia emerged victorious.
Georgian officials also sought to purchase additional ammunition and
helicopters, but the deal fell through because the supplier, Idra,
was "advised that it would raise a lot of political complications
between Mexico and Russia," the source said.
"The Georgians were pretty much looking for anyone who would sell
to them and were willing to pay top dollar," the letter said, adding
in parantheses: "(This shows how frantic the Georgians were in July
knowing that war is coming.)"
Tbilisi later tried to sell the compromised drones to neighboring
Azerbaijan, but it remains unclear whether the deal was completed,
the source said.
No governments implicated in the deal have commented on the leak as
of Wednesday afternoon.
Stratfor's alleged emails disclosed earlier also named Russian
Prosecutor General Yury Chaika as an informant of the company, saying
he supplied it with data on turf wars in the Kremlin. Chaika's office
dismissed the report as "provocation."