The Global Intelligence Files,
files released so far...
2581
The Global Intelligence Files

### Index pages

List of Releases

### by Date of Document

unspecified
2001
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011

### by Date of Release

2001-03-13
2010-03-10
2011-03-05
2011-03-15
2012-01-29
2012-02-27
2012-02-28
2012-02-29
2012-03-01
2012-03-02
2012-03-03
2012-03-04
2012-03-05
2012-03-06
2012-03-07
2012-03-08
2012-03-09
2012-03-10
2012-03-11
2012-03-12
2012-03-13
2012-03-14
2012-03-15
2012-03-16
2012-03-17
2012-03-19
2012-03-20
2012-03-23
2012-03-25
2012-03-26
2012-03-27
2012-04-01
2012-04-02
2012-04-24
2012-04-26
2012-04-30
2012-05-10
2012-06-18
2012-06-20
2012-07-01
2012-07-24
2012-07-28
2012-07-29
2012-07-30
2012-07-31
2012-08-01
2012-08-02
2012-08-05
2012-08-06
2012-08-07
2012-08-08
2012-08-09
2012-08-10
2012-08-11
2012-08-12
2012-08-13
2012-08-14
2012-08-15
2012-08-16
2012-08-17
2012-08-18
2012-08-19
2012-08-20
2012-08-21
2012-08-22
2012-08-23
2012-08-24
2012-08-25
2012-08-26
2012-08-27
2012-08-29
2012-08-30
2012-08-31
2012-09-01
2012-09-02
2012-09-03
2012-09-04
2012-09-05
2012-09-06
2012-09-07
2012-09-09
2012-09-10
2012-09-11

### Our Partners

ABC Color - Paraguay
Al Akhbar - Lebanon
Al Masry Al Youm - Egypt
Asia Sentinel - Hong Kong
Bivol - Bulgaria
Carta Capital - Brazil
CIPER - Chile
Dawn Media - Pakistan
L'Espresso - Italy
La Repubblica - Italy
La Jornada - Mexico
La Nacion - Costa Rica
Malaysia Today - Malaysia
McClatchy - United States
Nawaat - Tunisia
NDR/ARD - Germany
Owni - France
Pagina 12 - Argentina
Philip Dorling - Fairfax media contributor - Australia
Plaza Publica - Guatemala
Publica - Brazil
Publico.es - Spain
Rolling Stone - United States
Russian Reporter - Russia
Ta Nea - Greece
Taraf - Turkey
The Hindu - India
The Yes Men - Bhopal Activists
Sunday Star-Times - New Zealand

### Community resources

Supporters Support Wikileaks Follow us on Twitter Twitter this Follow us on Facebook

courage is contagious

# The Global Intelligence Files

On Monday February 27th, 2012, WikiLeaks began publishing The Global Intelligence Files, over five million e-mails from the Texas headquartered "global intelligence" company Stratfor. The e-mails date between July 2004 and late December 2011. They reveal the inner workings of a company that fronts as an intelligence publisher, but provides confidential intelligence services to large corporations, such as Bhopal's Dow Chemical Co., Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and government agencies, including the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Marines and the US Defence Intelligence Agency. The emails show Stratfor's web of informers, pay-off structure, payment laundering techniques and psychological methods.

## Re: INSIGHT - CHINA - RIO ESPIONAGE - CN65 [Analytical & Intelligence Comments] RE: Australia, China: Accusations of Espionage

Released on 2012-02-29 14:00 GMT

Email-ID | 970494
Date | 2009-07-10 05:56:18
From | richmond@stratfor.com
To | analysts@stratfor.com
List-Name | analysts@stratfor.com

In this piece he mentions that the Chinese always target a Chinese foreign
national. That is what I got from my sources and from all the research we
did on other cases seems to be exclusively the case. I did not come
across one westerner without Chinese decent that was ever implicated in
such a case. Chinese is Chinese no matter what your passport says.
Matthew Gertken wrote:
Here's the Greg Sheridan article Jen's source mentions. It isn't
brilliant or anything, but it pretty well captures the anger in
Australia right now. And you have to admit, he's got a point. This was a
really baldfaced move by China and this article is an example of the
enormous domestic pressure that must be coming to bear on Rudd.
Big risk in nasty business
Greg Sheridan, Foreign editor | July 10, 2009
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25759154-5013460,00.html
Article from: The Australian
THE arrest and detention in Shanghai of senior Australian Rio Tinto
executive Stern Hu represents a grave crisis in Australia's relationship
with China.
It is a serious miscalculation by Beijing, and threatens to do lasting
harm to China's interests, not only in Australia, but throughout the
Western world.
Rio Tinto is one of the biggest mining companies in the world. Recently
it has earned the ire of official China (China Inc, as it's sometimes
described) in two ways.
It has pulled out of a huge deal in which the wholly Chinese government
owned Chinalco was going to buy nearly $20 billion of Rio. And it is
involved in tense negotiations over iron ore prices.
And now Rio's number two man in China, a Chinese Australian, and three
of his Chinese employees, are in custody, ludicrously on suspicion of
espionage and stealing Chinese state secrets.
Often when the Chinese state is under stress it reverts to Cold War
rhetoric and indeed Cold War impulses.
But really, to arrest a senior Rio executive for espionage? In 2009?
This surely is 30 years out of date.
These arrests always tend to be of ethnic Chinese, no matter what their
citizenship, as though Beijing does not recognise the foreign
nationality of anyone of Chinese blood.
But if Australian executives cannot have difficult business dealings and
negotiations in China without being arrested, this is a grievous
development.
The story has been reported widely internationally, on various forms of
media including CNN and Bloomberg.
Rio is a giant in the mining world. If Chinese authorities capriciously
detain executives from companies such as Rio, what lessons will the
international business community draw from this?
Most of all, however, this is a crisis for the Rudd government. There is
an air of contempt in the way the Chinese authorities have failed to
respond to Australian government requests for information and for
consular access to MrHu until today.
What does the much touted Australia-China relationship add up to if
Beijing treats Canberra with such conspicuous discourtesy and
indifference? Or, more likely, are the Chinese deliberately sending a
message? If so, it's a chilling message.
If the Rudd government cannot secure Mr Hu's release within a few days,
it will be seen as having zero influence with Beijing.
Kevin Rudd's ambition to be a "zhengyou" to China, a good friend who can
tell even unpleasant truths, will be torn to shreds.
If the Rudd government cannot resolve this matter quickly, then every
positive thing it ever says about its relations with Beijing will not be
worth the hot air they take to say.
The frequent talk of a special relationship between Australia and China
will be seen as fatuous sentimentality.
But the Chinese are risking serious interests as well.
Their action against Mr Hu greatly strengthens those such as Nationals
Senate leader Barnaby Joyce who argue against any strategic partnership
between Australia and China, while China's many apologists in Australia
will be deeply discredited.
This nasty business needs to be resolved very quickly.
Jennifer Richmond wrote:
So my Aussie intelligence source that I was so worried about because
he stayed in China incommunicado for over a week decides to get in
touch with me via STRATFOR! Ha. Well anyways, I am resending this as
insight in case not everyone picks this up. This is very important
and wish like hell we woulda got it this morning before I wrote up the
CSM. I guess we can always update next week or do a stand-alone piece
- thoughts?
SOURCE: CN65
ATTRIBUTION: Former Australian State Senator
SOURCE DESCRIPTION: Source is well-connected politically, militarily
and economically. He has become a
private businessman helping foreign companies with M&As
PUBLICATION: Yes
SOURCE RELIABILITY: A
ITEM CREDIBILITY: 2
DISTRIBUTION: Analysts
SPECIAL HANDLING: None
Hey Jen,
Just back in Australia, but still only in Perth. Won't get back to
Brisbane until 1000 GMT on 10th July. Happy to take a call after
that. You may have missed a related issue on this story.
The day in arrived in China the media announced proposed changes to
the
laws on state secrets. These include increasing the range of things
which
could constitute revealing or stealing "state secrets". Of course
stealing
them, or deliberately revealing them, can attract a death sentence.
The
exact details are contained in clippings, which are in my checked
luggage. I will get them once I get home.
In my talks, the Chinese officials were turning themselves inside
out over
Chinalco, and the line given in the official media curiously blamed
the
Opposition. The reason for this is simply that the Government and
Rio
don't want to admit that they got it seriously wrong. You recall my
comment on the clipping you showed me? The problem is that they
tried to
push their bargaining position too hard instead of revising the deal
to
make it more immediately palatable.
Interestingly, the arrests come not just during the protracted iron
ore
negotiations, but on the very weekend that Rio successfully
concluded its
rights issue to replace most of the cash they were to get from
Chinalco. I
think these guys were really pissed off by that, and wanted to do
something
to lash out at Rio. Also, they may have figured that arresting
these guys
would lead to a capitulation by Rio at the negotiating table.
Rudd is copping a flogging for failing to say anything at all on the
matter, even though the Australian has been in the bag for four
days. You
need to see Greg Sheridan's article in the Australian today. Also,
you
have a fan at the Australian Fin Review, as Stratfor commentary made
up
half the back page in the Chanticleer column there.
I got out of China a week late, and was very worried for myself for
a
week, but all turned out okay.
Hope all is well at your end.
Bill
Source:
http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/20090708_australia_china_accusations_espionage