Jellyfish Intelligence (Inc.)

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Operation Jellyfish Takes Intelligence Operatives to Frontlines of Fortune 500 Companies

Operation Jellyfish News Conference

May 12, 2011 12:00 PM

http://press.org/events/operation-jelly ... conference

Former Blackwater and Able Danger operators create private sector firm providing intelligence services to the C-suite in multinational corporations.

May 12 - - Washington DC - - Jellyfish Intelligence is a private sector initiative created by a team of former civilian and military intelligence operatives, seasoned business executives and corporate strategists that will provide sophisticated intelligence operations services to Chief Executive Officers who wish to execute their business strategies with complete awareness of the international business environment.

With increasing global geopolitical tensions, rising energy and commodities prices and complex foreign policy decisions being made in capital cities around the world, international corporate executives are turning to Jellyfish Intelligence to help protect and grow market share. Without reliable intelligence regarding shifting political, social and macroeconomic conditions, CEOs would be running their firms blindly where strategic plans would not be executable and companies would fail.

Unique to the Jellyfish team is that several members have been involved with either Blackwater Worldwide through its Total Intelligence Solutions division or with the military intelligence program known as “Operation Able Danger.” Blackwater felt compelled to change its name to Xe Services after several lawsuits and controversies in Iraq and Afghanistan, while Able Danger brought the Bush Administration under scrutiny when it was learned that the operation’s state-of-the-art "data mining" methods had revealed the names of a number of 9/11 hijackers prior to the September 2001 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.

"While we understand that both issues have their respective reasons for being controversial, we are using the talent of our team's experience on the battlefield to bring insights and advice to the boardroom," said Jellyfish CEO Keith Mahoney, a private sector executive formerly with Blackwater's intelligence division, Total Intelligence Solutions. “We have found a home in the C-Suites of the Fortune 500 by providing a clear predictive analysis of future expected threats to our client’s revenues, costs, and profits.”

Jellyfish is comprised of specialists with experience in a variety of different areas, including wargaming and strategy, operations and planning, intelligence collection and analysis, and the use of sophisticated technology.

Long before Facebook, Operation Able Danger was using advanced data mining techniques to identify and target social networks, most notably those of the Al Qaeda network. The operation was a unique hybrid of advanced neuro-network principles used by highly-qualified operations analysts who could sort through the information and discern patterns allowing the Special Operations Command to have "options" in their difficult decision making processes.

"We have the unique ability to translate how military operations affect business operations and having options is important when generals and CEOs are making decisions that reach into the economies of countries and industries," said Jellyfish Military Operations Advisor Tony Shaffer, a key component of the Able Danger program and author of "Operation Dark Heart - Spycraft and Special Ops on the Frontline of Afghanistan."

Jellyfish assets are global in reach, with operatives and experts throughout capital cities in Asia, Europe, Latin America and in the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region. Jellyfish will also offer strategic associations with influential lobbying firms in Washington DC to offer "political intelligence" services to corporate clients as well as insights and analysis on congressional legislation and policy.

Additional strategic alliances position Jellyfish to offer a number of other high-level customized services including physical and information security, data mining and aggregation, risk assessment and due diligence services, and industry specific research and analysis with sophisticated open source intelligence (OSINT) methods and technologies.

"In a world where global energy, finance and military operations are increasingly and simultaneously inter-connected issues, the ability to provide a bridge of intelligence from the battlefield to the boardroom is vitally important," said Jellyfish President Michael Bagley.

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Sons of Blackwater Open Corporate Spying Shop

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/05 ... g-business

By Spencer Ackerman Email Author
May 12, 2011

Veterans from the most infamous private security firm on Earth and one of the military’s most controversial datamining operations are teaming up to provide the Fortune 500 with their own private spies.

Take one part Blackwater, and another part Able Danger, the military data-mining op that claimed to have identified members of al-Qaida living in the United States before 9/11. Put ‘em together, and you’ve got a new company called Jellyfish.

Jellyfish is about corporate-information dominance. It swears it’s leaving all the spy-world baggage behind. No guns, no governments digging through private records of its citizens.

“Our organization is not going to be controversial,” pledges Keith Mahoney, the Jellyfish CEO, a former Navy officer and senior executive with Blackwater’s intelligence arm, Total Intelligence Solutions. Try not to make a joke about corporate mercenaries.

His partners know from controversy. Along with Mahoney, there’s Michael Yorio, the executive vice president for business development and another Blackwater vet; Yorio recently prepped the renamed Xe Services for its life after founder Erik Prince sold it.

Jellyfish’s chief technology officer is J.D. Smith, who was part of Able Danger until lawyers for the U.S. Special Operations Command shut the program down in 2000. Also from Able Danger is Tony Shaffer, Jellyfish’s “military operations adviser” and the ex-Defense Intelligence Agency operative who became the public face of the program in dramatic 2005 congressional testimony.

But Jellyfish isn’t about merging mercenaries with data sifters. And it’s not about going after short money like government contracts. (Although, the firm is based in D.C., where the intel community is and the titans of corporate America aren’t.)

During a Thursday press conference in Washington that served as a coming-out party for the company, Jellyfish’s executives described an all-purpose “private-sector intelligence” firm.

What’s that mean? Through a mouthful of corporate-speak (“empowering the C-suite” to make crucial decisions) Mahoney describes a worldwide intelligence network of contacts, ready to collect data on global hot spots that Jellyfish can pitch to deep-pocketed clients. Does your energy firm need to know if Iran will fall victim to the next Mideast uprising? Jellyfish’s informants in Tehran can give a picture. (They insist it’s legal.)

They’ve got “long-established relationships” everywhere from Bogota to Belgrade, Somalia to South Korea, says Michael Bagley, Jellyfish’s president, formerly of the Osint Group. A mix of “academia, think tanks, military or government” types.

That’s par for the course. It sometimes seems like every CIA veteran over the last 15 years has set up or joined a consulting practice, tapping their agency contacts for information they can peddle to businesses. Want to sell your analysis of the geostrategic picture to corporate clients? Congratulations — Stratfor beat you to it.

That’s where Smith comes in. “The Able Danger days, that’s like 1,000 years ago,” he says. Working with a technology firm called 4th Dimension Data, Jellyfish builds clients a dashboard to search and aggregate data from across its proprietary intel database, the public internet and specifically targeted information sources.

If you’re in maritime shipping, for instance, Jellyfish can build you a search-and-aggregation app, operating up in the cloud, that can put together weather patterns with Jellyfish contacts in Somalia who know about piracy.

Of course, there’s a security element to all of this, too. Jellyfish will train your staff in network security, as well as “physical security,” Yorio says. But Mahoney quickly adds, “Jellyfish Intelligence has no interest in guns and gates and guards.”

Message: This isn’t Blackwater — or even “Xe.” Mahoney says Jellyfish isn’t trading on its executives’ ties to the more infamous corners of the intelligence and security trades. Sure, there’s a press release that announced Jellyfish’s origins in Blackwater and Able Danger. And some companies doing business in high-risk areas might consider ties to Blackwater, which never lost a client’s life, to be an advantage.

But Mahoney says he’s just trying to be up front about his executives’ histories before some enterprising journalist Googles it out and makes it a thing. Put the moose on the table, or however the corporate cliche goes. (According to Smith, the father of 4th Dimension Data’s founder worked with Smith in an “unnamed intelligence organization.”) “Our brand enhancement,” he says, “will be the success our clients have.”

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43036162/ns ... ork_times/

The force is intended to conduct special operations missions inside and outside the country, defend oil pipelines and skyscrapers from terrorist attacks and put down internal revolts, the documents show. Such troops could be deployed if the Emirates faced unrest or were challenged by pro-democracy demonstrations in its crowded labor camps or democracy protests like those sweeping the Arab world this year.

Is Erik Prince aware that groups like his are financed by the same people who finance al Qaeda and "the terrorists", specifically in the UAE?

The company, often called R2, was licensed last March with 51 percent local ownership, a typical arrangement in the Emirates. It received about $21 million in start-up capital from the U.A.E., the former employees said.

They should call it P2, as Blackwater is nothing but a strategy of tension proxy for the ptb

Funny what a sick world we live in, where bin Laden is the ultimate bad guy, but Prince is the "cool anti hero"

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RICHARD CLARKE WAS NOT TOLD ABOUT ABLE DANGER

So the responsibility for stopping DIA program Able Danger, which had Identified Atta and 3 other hijackers and linked them to 56 other al-Queda terrorists overseas, has been laid at the feet of Bill Clinton--except he and Richard Clarke were never told about it at all.

That's right. Bill Clinton was never told about Able Danger and the ID of Atta because Richard Clarke was never told about AD. How do I know? He never wrote about it in his book, nor did he testify about it's existence before the 9-11 Commission!

You see Richard Clarke was known for being obsessed with Osama Bin Laden and HE was the guy the neo-con moles did not want to find out about Atta and the gang. Schoomaker and the neo-cons knew telling the FBI would inform Clarke and then Mr. Laser Beam himself, President of the United State William Jefferson Clinton, would have gotten involved--and the Pearl Harbor-type attack would never take place (the neo-cons talked about the need for a Pearl Harbor-type attack before the PNAC Plan would be accepted by the American people--so when one presented itself, they let it happen).

Dayton transcript

Senator Dayton: NORAD Lied About 9/11 Sunday, August 1, 2004By Nicholas Levis Mark Dayton has become the first U.S. senator to challenge the rush to consensus that "The 9/11 Commission Report" settles the open questions of Sept. 11, 2001.In hearings last Friday, Sen. Dayton (D-MN) raised an obvious point: if the timeline of air defense response as promoted in the Kean Commission's best-selling book is correct, then the timeline presented repeatedly by NORAD during the last two years was completely wrong. Yet now no one at NORAD is willing to comment on their own timeline! When the official story of 9/11 can be changed repeatedly without anyone ever being held accountable, we have no right to ever again expect honest government. Please read the following story and do your part to support Sen. Dayton for highlighting the contradiction, and to encourage the media to follow up. Transcript of Sen. Dayton's remarks on NORAD Friday, July 31, 2004 at Congressional hearings on "The 9/11 Commission Report" (Transcribed by Kyle Hence of 9/11 Citizens' Watch)Senator Dayton: Thank you Madame Chairman, and I , I also want to commend you for holding this hearing in quick response to the 9/11 Commission's Report. Mr. Chairman, Mr. Co-chairman, I want to say again to you that we are all indebted to you, to the other eight members of the Commission and the staff for this critically important work that you have provided the nation.<br><br>It is a profoundly disturbing report because it chronicles in excruciating detail the terrible attack against our homeland, the despicable murder of so many American citizens and the horrible destruction to countless other lives and liberties throughout this nation. And because of the utter failure to defend them [American citizens] by their federal government, by their leaders, and the institutions that were entrusted to do so and because of serious discrepancies between the facts that you've set forth and what was told to the American people, to members of Congress, and to your own Commission by those, some of those authorities. There's way too much to cover here but I will begin.According to your report the first of the four airliner hijackings occurred on September 11th at 8:14 Eastern time. At 10:03 AM, almost two hours later, an hour and forty-nine minutes to be exact, the fourth and last plane crashed before reaching its intended target, the U.S. Capitol, because of the incredible heroism of its passengers, including Minnesota native Thomas Burnett Jr. During those entire 109 minutes to my reading of this report this country and its citizens were completely undefended. Yes, it was a surprise attack. It was unprecedented. Yes, it exposed serious flaws and as you noted our imagination, our policies, capabilities and our management designs but what I find much more shocking and alarming were the repeated and catastrophic failures of the leaders of the leaders in charge, and the other people responsible, to do their jobs. To follow established procedures.<br><br>To follow direct orders from civilian and military commanders.And then they failed to tell us the truth later.<br><br>It doesn't matter whether they were Republicans, Democrats or neither, it matters what they did or did not do. According to your findings, FAA authorities failed to the inform military command, NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, about three of the four hijackings until after the planes had crashed into their targets at the second World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the ground in Pennsylv÷in Pennsylvania which was not their target.The direct FAA notification of the military regarding the first plane twenty-three minutes after it was hijacked and only nine minutes before it struck the first World Trade Tower.<br><br>NORAD then scrambled one of only two sets of fighter planes on alert in the entire eastern third of the country, one in Massachusetts and one in Virginia but it didn't know where to send them; because the hijackers has turned off the plane's transponder so NORAD couldn't locate them on their radar and they still looking for it when it exploded into its target at 8:46AM.The second hijacking began, according to your report, one minute later. NORAD wasn't notified until the same minute the same plane struck the second World Trade tower. It was five more minutes before NORAD's mission commander learned about that explosion; which was five minutes after thousands [probably millions] of Americans saw it on live television. By this time the third plane's transponder was off; communication had been severed, yet it was fifteen minutes before the flight controller decided to notify the regional FAA center which in turn did not inform FAA headquarters for another fifteen minutes. So at that point 9:25 AM FAA's National Command Center knew that there were two hijacked planes that had crashed into the two World Trade Centers and a third plane had stopped communicating and disappeared from its primary radar yet no one in FAA headquarters asked for military assistance with that plane either. NORAD was unaware that the plane had even been hijacked until after it crashed into the Pentagon at 9:34.This is just unbelievable negligence. It doesn't matter if we spend $550 billion annually on our national defense, if we reorganize our intelligence or if we restructure congressional oversight if people don't pick up the phone to call one another. If we're not told if somebody needs a new radar system and doesn't stall it when it's provided. And this was not an occasional human or failure. This is nothing but human error and failure to follow established procedures and to use common sense.<br><br>Unfortunately, the chronicle is not over. The NORAD mission commander ordered his only three other planes on alert in Virginia to scramble and fly north to Baltimore. Minutes later when he was told that a plane was approaching Washington he learned that the planes were flying East over the Atlantic Ocean away from Baltimore and Washington so that when the third plane struck the Pentagon NORAD's fighters were 150 miles away, farther than they were before they took off. By then FAA's Command Center had learned of the fourth hijacking and called FAA Headquarters specifically asking that they contact the military at 9:36AM and at 9:46AM the FAA Command Center updated FAA headquarters that United Flight 93 was "29 minutes out of Washington, D.C." Three minutes later your document records this following conversation between the Command Center and FAA headquarters. Command center - 'Uh, do we want to, uh, think about scrambling aircraft?' - FAA headquarters - 'Oh God, I don't know.' - Command center - 'Uh, that's a decision somebody's going to have to make probably in the next 10 minutes.' - FAA headquarters - 'Uh, yeah, you know, everybody just left the room." At 10:03 United Flight 93 crashed into the Pennsylvania farm soil and nobody from the FAA headquarters had contacted the military. NORAD didn't know that this fourth plane was hijacked until after it crashed 35 minutes later. The fighter planes that reached Washington seven minutes after that crash they were told by the Mission Commander, "negative clearance to shoot the aircraft" over the Nation's Capitol. Yet one week, yet one week after 9/11, in response to initial reports that the military failed to defend our domestic airspace during the hijacks NORAD issued an official chronology that stated that the FAA notified NORAD of the second hijacking at 8:43, wrong, FAA notified NORAD of the third hijacking at 9:24, according to your report wrong, FAA notified NORAD of the fourth hijacking at an unspecified time and that prior to the crash in Pennsylvania Langley F-16 combat air patrol planes were in place, remaining in place, to protect Washington, D.C.. All untrue. In public testimony before your 9/11 Commission in May of 2003 NORAD officials stated, I assume under oath [ED; they were NOT UNDER OATH], that at 9:16 they had received the hijack notification of United Flight 93 from the FAA. That hijacking did not occur until 9:28; there was a routine cockpit transmission recovered at 9:27. And in that testimony before you NORAD officials stated also that at 9:24 they received notice of the hijacking of the third plane, American flight 77, also untrue according to your report; which states that NORAD was never notified that flight was hijacked. NORAD officials testified that they scrambled the Langley, Virginia fighters to respond to those two hijackings yet taped recordings of both NORAD and FAA both reportedly documented that the order to scramble was a response to an inaccurate FAA report that American Flight 11 had not hit the first World Trade tower and was headed to Washington. That erroneous alert was transmitted by the FAA at 9:24AM, thirty-eight minutes after that airplane had exploded into the World Trade tower. Yet NORAD's public chronology of 9/18/01 and their Commission testimony 20 months later covered up those truths. They lied to the American people, they lied to Congress and they lied to your 9/11 Commission to create a false impression of competence, communication, coordination and protection of the American people. And we can set up all the oversight possible at great additional cost to the American taxpayers and it won't be worth an Enron pension if the people responsible lie to us; if they take the records and doctor them into falsehoods, and if they get away with it. For almost three years now NORAD officials and FAA officials have been able to hide their critical failures that left this country defenseless during two of the worst hours in our history. <br><br>And I believe that President Bush must call them, those responsible for those representations to account. [clapping in gallery] If the Commission's accounts are correct, he should fire whoever at FAA, at NORAD or anywhere else who betrayed the public trust by not telling us the truth. And then he should clear up a few discrepancies of his own. Four months after September 11th on January 27th 2002, the Washington Post's Dan Balls and Bob Woodward authored an insider's retrospective on top administration officials' actions on 9/11 and thereafter. They reported that very shortly after the Pentagon was struck at 9:34 quote Pentagon officials ordered up the airborne command post used only in national emergencies; they sent up combat air patrol in the Washington area and a fighter escort for Air Force One. Secretary Rumsfeld was portrayed as "taking up his post at the National Military Command Center." And all that reportedly occurred before 9:55AM. Right thereafter "Bush then talked to Rumsfeld to clarify the procedures military pilots should follow before firing on attack planes. With Bush's approval Rumsfeld passed the order down the chain of command." This was supposedly taking place according to that article before the fourth plane crashed in Pennsylvania at 10:03. Looks very impressive. The President acting swiftly and decisively; giving orders to the Secretary of Defense and on down the chain of command, combat air patrol planes are patrolling Washington directed by an airborne command post all before 10:03AM; however, according to your commission, President Bush spoke to Secretary Rumsfeld for the first time that morning shortly after 10AM. Based on White House notes and Ari Fleischer notes of the conversation the Commission's report states that it was a brief call in which the subject of the shootdown authority was not discussed. The Commission then states that the Secretary of Defense did not join the NMCC's [air threat] conference call until just before 10:30AM. The Secretary of Defense himself told the Commission he was just gaining situation awareness when he spoke with the Vice-President at 10:39AM. That transcript is on page 23, page 43. My time is out but it reflects the Vice-President's honest mistaken(ly) belief that he had been given an order, after talking with the President, to shoot down any plane that would not divert, yet incredibly÷the NORAD commander <br><br>Senator Collins (Chairwomen): The Senator's time has expired. <br><br>Senator Dayton: I am just going to finish this if I may. Yet incredibly the NORAD commander did not pass that order to the fighter planes because he was "unsure how the pilots would or should proceed with this guidance." As you say Mr. Chairman, 'the situation is urgent' but we don't get protected in those circumstances but it's even worse when it's covered-up.http://www.911truth.org/article.php?sto ... 5095600503">www.911truth.org/article....5095600503

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RICHARD CLARKE WAS NOT TOLD ABOUT ABLE DANGER

So the responsibility for stopping DIA program Able Danger, which had Identified Atta and 3 other hijackers and linked them to 56 other al-Queda terrorists overseas, has been laid at the feet of Bill Clinton--except he and Richard Clarke were never told about it at all.

That's right. Bill Clinton was never told about Able Danger and the ID of Atta because Richard Clarke was never told about AD. How do I know? He never wrote about it in his book, nor did he testify about it's existence before the 9-11 Commission!

You see Richard Clarke was known for being obsessed with Osama Bin Laden and HE was the guy the neo-con moles did not want to find out about Atta and the gang. Schoomaker and the neo-cons knew telling the FBI would inform Clarke and then Mr. Laser Beam himself, President of the United State William Jefferson Clinton, would have gotten involved--and the Pearl Harbor-type attack would never take place (the neo-cons talked about the need for a Pearl Harbor-type attack before the PNAC Plan would be accepted by the American people--so when one presented itself, they let it happen).

Ugh, this is why I don't like Democraticunderground...the truthers there play this pro Clintonista game. As I noted in my post above in this thread, it was more than just "neocon moles" ensuring 9/11 would happen

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oh I know I know

I got into moocho trouble over there many times by the likely suspects for posting about Able Danger, here's just one of many

Able Danger - DEBUNKED

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oh I know I know

I got into moocho trouble over there many times by the likely suspects for posting about Able Danger, here's just one of many

Able Danger - DEBUNKED

Nice! Yeah Able Danger really begins with a nexus rarely explored in truther research: The 1990 Meir Khahane murder, El Nossair, Ali Mohamed, Al Kifah Refugee Center(MAK/Al Qaeda splinter group in Brooklyn set up in 1989), the Blind Sheikh, Ramzi Yousef and that whole outgrowth...as well as the Hamburg cell in Germany. the mainstream 9/11 research crowd often talks about the "Hamburg Cell", yet its telling how many of Atta's other associates in the cell have been protected by German intelligence(like Mamoun Darklazanli)

Pretty much, from my research it seemed Able Danger stumbled upon protected 1990's terror networks that dovetailed with Pentagon/German intel bin Laden anti Serbian forces in Bosnia/Balkans and that was a big no no for the deep state. It really bugs me how the popular "blowback" myth the left and right spin involves al Qaeda being funded by the CIA in the 1980's...but fail to realize those same Mujahideen networks were funded in the former Yugoslavian conflict under Clinton, as well as the 94-96 backing of the Taliban by the CIA vis-a-vis the ISI. Hell, the FBI pretty went along with Saudi's false flag of the Khobar towers to pin it on Iran, though thankfully no traction or hostile military action came from that.

But if there is one key narrative beyond Bosnian jihadists and Albanian/Kosovo smuggling routes in the leadup to 9/11, it's how powerful Saudi interests in bed with both the US government and bin Laden
rounded up the Al Kifah Refugee center into their Ptech/BMI real estate/technology fold under the auspices of "charity/mosque" terror fundraisers. In the early 2000's the media picked up on this, but down the memory hole it goes...and Robert Wright's plight still goes unanswered.