Journalists Linked to Private Intelligence Firm By Valerie HopkinsJournalists were paid to provide information to the Intelligence firm Stratfor, the latest tranche of company emails leaked by WikiLeaks, reveals. The firm courted media outlets in almost 50 countries, according to the documents. Stratfor largely had significant contacts in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. In 2009 and 2010, the firm signed contracts with the Azerbaijan Press Agency, Serbia’s Politika and B92, HotNews in Romania, The Baltic Times, Georgia’s The Messenger, and the Georgia Times, Moldova’s Jurnal Trust Media, Macedonia’s MakFax, Poland’s Warsaw Business Journal, the European Union’s EurActiv, Kyrgyzstan’s The Central Times of Asia, and more. Among the contributors was the English-language newspaper Kyiv Post, an OCCRP partner. Editor Brian Bonner says his newspaper provided the Texas-based firm with information and sometimes published their analysis reports on their site.