The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
At the recommendation of Winn Schwartau, Robert Steele was invited to open Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) in New York City in 1994, and has been a speaker each conference since then. Although 2008 was billed as the last event, it may continue. Steele also does a “SPY IMPROVE: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know But Did Not Know Who to Ask.” Above is the “formal” briefing delivered on 18 July 2008.
This is an excellent directive that is being ignored across the entire U.S. Intelligence Community, and most speciicially is being violated by the unpressional narrow and unresponsive (and largely ignorant) behavior of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Open Source Center (OSC) which is supposed to be a service of common concern but has obstinantly refused to modernize since this matter was first brought up with its predecessor, the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) in 1992 by the US Marine Corps. For a critique of FBIS's rotten approach to open sources at that time, see 1992: USMC Critique of CIA/FBIS Plan for Open Source Intelligence (OSINT). For the broader history of opposition see 2004 Modern History of Public Intelligence and the Opposition.
Analytic Outreach will not happen until the analysts themselves, and their branch chiefs, are given virtual “chips” they can cash in within a national and a defense open source intelligence program. Long ago we called for $100,000 per year for each analysts, and $1 million per year for each branch chief, to support discretionary outreach, more often than not to uncleared foreign nationals and experts in the US wanting nothing to do with the secret world. We specifically exclude “body shops” like CENTRA from consideration–if the individual analyst does not know specifically who is best in class and who to hire, they have not done their homework. See the “cell” we first recommended to the Defense Intelligence Agency, note the financial individual able to execute credit card and other small contracts without further approvals, within the individual, branch, and division budgets.
This is a brilliantly organized report with many stellar insights, all of which are undermined by the complete inability of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) to accept the fact that 80%–at least– of what we need to know is not secret, not in English, and not owned or controlled by the U.S. Government.
Phi Beta Iota Editorial Comment (DOI: 11 August 2009)
This is perhaps the finest document in recent history to emerge from the U.S. Intelligence Community (US IC) for public study. It ranks with Computer Aided Tools for the Analysis of Science & Technology (CATALYST) in its gifted–uteerly gifted–high-level description of the challenges and opportunities. Everything in this document is both needed and achievable.
HOWEVER:
“Foreign Liaison and Intelligence Reform: Still in Denial” comments on the excellent article about secret foreign liaison, “Foreign Intelligence Liaison: Devils, Deals, and Details,” in IJIC 20/1 Spring 2007, pp. 167-174.
This is my most patriotic book, and a very serious book. All of the chapters and the 500+ non-fiction annotated bibliography are available as individual downloads:
Legitimate Grievances (US Internal)
Legitimate Grievances (Anti-US Global)
Call to Arms: Fund We Not Them
I dare to hope that serious people considering me for any mission or any task will recognize the earnest civic value of this contribution. Certainly I know that the public is waking up to the “Borg” that uses the Presidency as theater while Wall Street controls, the Treasury, Justice, and the Federal Reserve (which is neither Federal nor a Reserve).
Bruce LaDuke has 20 years of Fortune 500 experience in a broad range of roles and has conducted private interdisciplinary studies in knowledge working for most of his adult life. He is author of a blog on the future of knowledge working called HyperAdvance. http://www.hyperadvance.com.
Knowledge-creation in collective intelligence
