Hamilton Bean
$49.95, 218 pages
Available for Pre-Order, 31 May 2011
Phi Beta Iota: Mr. Bean means well, but this is a three star book at best, losing one star for being grotesquely over-priced and a second for being completely out of touch with the Open Source Intelligence world outside the albino incest pit at CIA, while also completely oblivious to all that is going on across 90 different nations and the eight tribes of intelligence. The book's coverage of the US scene is mediocre, missing Bill Studeman, Joe Markowitz, Carol Dumain, Doug Dearth, and Ben Harrison, among many others–a simple comparison of Golden Candle Awards with those named in the index makes clear the very limited “official” range of views, most of them ranging from the totally unethical to the obliviously bureaucratic. A pre-quel to the book is available at the link below, as well as the riposte that was reviewed in draft by Studeman and Markowtiz.
2007 IJIC 20/2 The DNI’s Open Source Center
2008 IJIC 21/3 The Open Source Program: Missing in Action
See Also:
Journal: LEXIS-NEXIS OSINT Kiss to CIA/OSC
