Coca Cola Enlisted Intelligence Firm’s Help To Investigate Animal Rights Group PETA
Does Coke not have access to Google? They had to go to an intelligence firm?
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On Sunday, the Wikileaks revealed a massive trove of e-mails from the intelligence firm STRATFOR. Republic Report covered yesterday how these files showed that Dow Chemical was monitoring Occupy Wall Street rallies out of the concern that activists trying to hold the corporation responsible for the Bhopal chemical disaster was joining the movement.
Interestingly, a batch of e-mails from 2009 also show that STRATFOR’s analysts went to work researching the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) on behalf of beverage giant Coca Cola. The correspondence between Coca Cola Senior Manager Van Wilberding — who previously was a Special Agent in the U.S. Army as well as a Foreign Service Officer at the State Department — and STRATFOR’s Anya Alfano focused on the former’s concern that PETA would be protesting at the Vancouver Winter Olympics. Wilderberg wanted to know about how PETA operated and what the chances were that its activists would be taking part in actions in Canada:
Read more: http://www.republicreport.org/2012/coca-cola-enlisted-firm-for-peta/
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So what if PETA protested the Vancouver Winter Olympics.
I hope further email revelations will make this clear. The only reason I can think of is that Coke was buying a lot of Olympic coverage (ads and promotions) and didn't want PETA to create controversy that might reflect negatively on Coke's image...
Perhaps the remaining emails will tell all! 
