IntelCenter
| Industry | Intelligence |
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| Founded | 1993 |
| Headquarters | Alexandria, Virginia |
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Key people
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Ben N. Venzke, CEO |
IntelCenter is a United States company, founded in 1993. It is based near Washington, D.C., in Alexandria, Virginia.
The company "is a private contractor working for intelligence agencies". Its stated purpose is to "study terrorist groups and other threat actors and disseminating that information in a timely manner to those who can act on it. We look at capabilities and intentions, warnings and indicators, operational characteristics and a wide variety of other points in order to better understand how to interdict terrorist operations and reduce the likelihood of future attacks."
IntelCenter has a sister company, Tempest Publishing. The company's CEO is Ben N. Venzke.
IntelCenter has provided several video tapes to the Western press that show professed al-Qaeda members, including the following.
IntelCenter offers "Qaeda" tapes for sale on its website.
Neal Krawetz did an error level analysis of the As-Sahab and IntelCenter logos on "a 2006 al Qaeda video of Ayman al-Zawahiri". He originally told Kim Zetter of Wired News that the logos had "the same error levels and that this indicated they were added at the same time" (Zetter's words). IntelCenter boss Venzke subsequently denied that his organization had added the As-Sahab logo. He commented: "just because the error levels are the same for two items in an image, that doesn't prove they were added at the same time, only that the compression was the same for both items when they were added" (Zetter's words). Krawetz then went back on his original statement, saying that "the error levels on the IntelCenter and As-Sahab logos are different and that the IntelCenter logo was added after the As-Sahab logo" (Zetter's words again).
IntelCenter has not revealed how it acquires these videos or explained the discrepancies of the As-Sahab and IntelCenter logos.
Ian Clark, director of AHC, stated in an interview with a Norwegian blog that "IntelCenter for years has forged Osama bin-Laden video tapes" and that "IntelCenter is not a credible intelligence source".
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