Stratford leak: Israel gave Russia Georgia's Israeli UAV datalink codes, and in return Russia gave I - Polidicks

[release] Wikileaks is beginning the process of leaking emails gathered by Anonymous from Stratford, a global intelligence organization. Found something news worthy.. [QUOTE]INSIGHT - Russia/Israel/Georgia/Mexico - defense deals and swaps Email-ID 64027 Date 2009-02-26 04:37:21 From [email]reva.bhalla@stratfor.com[/email] To [email]secure@stratfor.com[/email] Please see insight message further below for more context PUBLICATION: No, but ask first ATTRIBUTION: N/A SOURCE DESCRIPTION: MX301 - Former Mexican cop, Latam military analyst, writes for Jane's SOURCE RELIABILITY: A ITEM CREDIBILITY: 1 SUGGESTED DISTRIBUTION: SPECIAL HANDLING: n/a Met with my Mexican source/friend again today and dude is getting shadier by the day. We followed up on our past discussion on Russia compromising the Israeli-made Georgian UAVs prior to the August war. Here is what else I learned One of the source's friends/colleagues -- formerly military i think but now does private defense deals on the side (it's Mexico) contacted him in July (prior to the Georgia war). Apparently the Georgians had contacted this guy because they were frantically looking for a replacement for the Israeli UAVs that were compromised. Not only that, but they asked for 10,000 rounds of ammo (source was talking fast, so i dunno if this is exactly what he said) but something like 6.22 mm rounds, 'NATO standard' because the Chinese ammo that the Georgians had only went 400 yards. Also on the list was a request for 2 bell helicopters. The Georgians were pretty much looking for anyone who would sell to them and were willing to pay top dollar (shows how frantic the Georgians were in July knowing that war is coming). My source put the other guy in touch with a private defense contractor to make the deal but ended up getting screwed over with the commission. Here is the most interesting part: I inquired more about the compromised Israeli UAVs. What he explained was that Israel and Russia made a swap -- Israel gave Russia the 'data link' code for those specific UAVs; in return, Russia gave Israel the codes for Iran's Tor-M1s. I asked about the S-300 (source tracks a lot of defense deals for Jane's). He doesn't think the Russians will give it to the Iranians. Besides, he said... Israel and Turkey have been collaborating very closely on the S-300s. He explain how about 8 years ago when Russia sold S-300s to Greece to base in Crete (which were supposed to protect Cyprus), Russia delivered those with a carrier so that Turkey wouldn't try to sink them. (things got a bit noisy so i may have misheard some of this). The gist of what he said is that Turkey has been cracking the S-300 since the Crete sale and has been sharing intel on the S-300 with the Israelis to ensure that they retain an advantage over Iran should Iran get them from the Russians. as far as the Georgian UAVs go, they were interested in the Mexican ones because the Mexican UAVs had something (forget the name. it was auto-something' that basically backs up teh UAV system in case someone hacks into it and immediately returns the UAV to base. [/QUOTE][/release] Wikileaks article, [url]http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/64027_insight-russia-israel-georgia-mexico-defense-deals-and-swaps.html[/url]

Damn so much interesting stuff happens that we don't know about. <3 you wikileaks Just finished reading all of it. Such interesting stuff.

Sounds like a good deal.

International politics is such a clusterfuck of conflicting interests and sham-alliances.

Backstabbers, everyone, everywhere.

Oh wow.

[QUOTE=DaysBefore;34921754]International politics is such a clusterfuck of conflicting interests and sham-alliances.[/QUOTE] Is it wrong all these leaks fascinate me more than horrify?

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lets get a woop woop for russia

This shit wouldnt slide under Reagan