The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
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In 1993 the Prime Minister of France was furious with his intelligence community. His direct aide for intelligence was Col Louis Dilais, a former chief of the Americas branch in French military intelligence. He put Open Source Intelligence on the agenda for a special conference in the French Senate, with the other major speakers being Admiral Lacoste and General Heinrich.
Below is an English version of the presentation but as adapted for OSS 1993.
PDF: 1993 Access Theory and Practice Original Best
This document was originally funded by a small French firm based in McLean, and ultimately led to an invitation to address a national conference in the French Senate. Two individuals in France made an impression during a trip to the 1993 information industry conference there:
Henry Stiller, whose booth had a caption that begins this paper, roughly translated, “95% of the information that an enterprise needs can be acquired by honorable means.”
The other person, the head of the French steel association, inspired our realization that one must case a wide net when he spoke of the millions that the French steel industry spent to study competing steel industries around the world, only to completely miss the plastics industry which came in and quickly took away the very lucrative market for automotive underbody parts.
PDF (2 Pages): National Security and National Competitiveness
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This was written for and disseminated within OSS '93. It subsrequently was printed in the membership publication Society of Photo-Optical Engineers (Spring 1994).
Although pioneers like Herman Daly had already outlined Ecological Economics, and Paul Hawkin and others would eventually define “true cost” metrics that prohibit the externalization of costs to the public, this piece was the beginning of the “Smart Nation” line of reflection.
