Yes, I understand it is not an official FBI document. The question is whether the group and guy that issued it was doing so at the request of the FBI. Unless the first sentence of the story here is false, it sounds like that may indeed be the case.
Here’s a request by BuckeyeTexan for eveyone to read #138 and #144, but also, in all fairness, please read #149 by pissant before making a judgement.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2223679/posts?page=138#138
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2223679/posts?page=144#144
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2223679/posts?page=149#149
InfraGard offices are located in the same building or the immediate area of FBI field offices. Each office has an FBI agent detailed to it, and is directed by the FBI in accordance with PPD-63.
That’s a quasi FBI agency to me. LOL
That sentence is partially true with the purpose of misleading anyone who reads it.
The FBI NIPC referenced in that sentence was transferred to the Department of Homeland Security in 2003. Generally speaking, InfraGard was "tasked" to provide such analysis after 9/11/2001. Their role after 2003 is still being defined and coordinated by FBI Special Agent Coordinators at each local chapter.
Membership in InfraGard is by local chapter. In this case, Arizona. There are several InfraGard chapters in Arizona. None of them issued this document.
Dr. Rapacki authored this document on his own. He referenced his membership in InfraGard as a means to associate the document with the FBI, which is disingenuous. Whoever wrote that first sentence of this story did so with the purpose of hijacking the stated purpose and goal of the InfraGard organization to lend credibility to this white paper.