Operation Jellyfish Takes Intelligence Operatives to Frontlines of Fortune 500 Companies

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

WASHINGTON, May 10, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- 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.

Point of Contact:

Michael Bagley
The OSINT Group
Washington DC
202.997.8413

SOURCE Jellyfish Intelligence