The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Sir, 1- OSINT definitely relates to HUMINT to the extent that it involves an analyst’s presence of mind. Primary data on OSINT (govt docs) are old and hardly any attention has been paid to cybersecurity, safer communications. Also, Open Source Info has increased tremendously over the years calling ICT engineers to research and produce more …
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CIA launches first federal lab The Central Intelligence Agency announced Monday the launch of its first-ever federal lab, a new internal organization that will allow its officers to obtain patents and licenses for intellectual property they create while working at the agency. CIA is so lame. I explain below.
ROBERT STEELE: Afer nine years as a spy including three back-to-back tours overseas with five times the regional recruiting and production record, in 1988 I conceptualized the modern discipline of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT). In 1993 Alvin Toffler built a chapter around me, “The Future of the Spy” and called me “the rival store” but …
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The drone attacks in Saudi Arabia have changed the nature of global warfare On the morning of 14 September, 18 drones and seven cruise missiles – all cheap and unsophisticated compared to modern military aircraft – disabled half of Saudi Arabia’s crude oil production and raised the world price of oil by 20 per cent. …
Superb on passive online research — nothing on overt human and ground truth eyes on OSINT. PDF (327 Pages): PASSIVE OSINT_Handbook_June-2018_Final Online Source
HUMAN INTELLIGENCE (HUMINT): As with many other definitions, this one has been abjectly corrupted by over two centuries of government emphasis on secret sources & methods to the exclusion of proper stewardship of education, open source intelligence, and research. HUMINT is any process that relies on a human mind to collect, process, and convert data …
HUMINT is the heart of the matter. What CIA, DIA, SOCOM, and DHS are doing in the HUMINT arena is more of the wrong thing. Now that NSA is being revealed as the naked (and rather dumb) emperor of intelligence, IMINT is largely dead (and what the drones should be doing instead of killing 98% …
