The German Foreign Office does not pass this information on to the Intelligence Service or other agencies for a full week.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

An informant--a former LGT employee--reportedly sold the information to Germany's intelligence service in 2006.

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Canadian Solicitor General Lawrence MacAulay said Tuesday that information from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service was shared with the FBI and led to the Ashcroft warning.

CNN: Information from Canada helped lead to alert, official says

The Russian FSB intelligence service told the FBI in 2011 about information that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a follower of radical Islam, two law enforcement officials said Saturday.

NPR: Boston Bomb Suspect Hospitalized Under Heavy Guard

The first example is the kind of information that WiseWindow gathers in its mass opinion business intelligence service.

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