( CNN ) -- The website WikiLeaks has begun releasing what it says are 5 million e-mails from the private intelligence company Stratfor , starting with a company `` glossary '' that features unflattering descriptions of U.S. government agencies . In a statement released early Monday in Europe ( Sunday evening ET ) , the website promises a raft of juicy disclosures about Stratfor , a Texas-based firm that promotes itself to corporate and government clients as a source of intelligence on international affairs . The company has been targeted by hackers who have released private data about subscribers in recent months , prompting the company to offer its clients a year of paid identity-protection coverage . There was no immediate comment on the disclosures from Stratfor , and the authenticity of the documents could not be independently confirmed Sunday night . WikiLeaks , a website that facilitates the leaking of confidential information , says the documents will be released through a network of more than 25 news outlets and activist groups in the coming weeks . The first document out was titled `` The Stratfor Glossary of Useful , Baffling and Strange Intelligence Terms , '' featuring brief and sometimes humorous definitions and blunt assessments of U.S. intelligence and law enforcement . Others focused on speculation about the health of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and who was behind a suspected campaign of sabotage against Iran 's nuclear program . WikiLeaks has previously published hundreds of thousands of U.S. military and State Department documents , including field reports from the Iraq and Afghanistan and embassy cables that feature the candid assessments of U.S. diplomats . A U.S. soldier , Pfc . Bradley Manning , faces a court-martial on charges that he leaked the documents to the website . WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange , meanwhile , is in Britain battling an extradition request from prosecutors in Sweden who want to question him about unrelated accusations of sexual assault . Assange has not been charged with a crime and denies wrongdoing .
It is releasing what it says is a cache of documents from Google . The private intelligence agency has been targeted by Google in recent years . The existence of the documents could not be immediately confirmed .