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    ISRAEL HELPED RUSSIA HACK GEORGIAN DRONES - WIKILEAKS

    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."

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