The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Click on Graphic to reach the Briefing. Based on Chapter 15, “New Rules for the New Craft of Intelligence” as first published in THE NEW CRAFT OF INTELLIGENCE: Personal, Public, & Political (OSS, 2002).
Somebody somewhere has to do this, and do it with over 90 nations, all NGOs, and global reach into all academic and private sector organizations desiring to share information and do multilateral sense-making.
References:
2009 DoD OSINT Leadership and Staff Briefings
2009: Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Trilogy
This is the Earth Rescue Network from the Earth Intelligence Network, a 501c3 Public Charity, as provided to the U.S. Army Civil Affairs Brigade and others during the information discussions about the need for a global multinational rescue force (changed to network to avoid the military connotation. Worn centered on a gray beret with both sides stapled down (i.e. not military style to one side), it symbolizes the commitment to peace (including the stilletto for the inevitable individuals that need to be killed, but with one man – one hit precision).
See also:
Survey of beret colors supporting the selection of gray.
The 9-11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, 26 July 2004. As found on Page 23 in the Summary and Page 413 within Chapter 13, “How to Do It? A different Way of Organizing the Government.”
See also: Search: The Future of OSINT [is M4IS2-Multinational]
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This is, in our humble opinion, the single most important sentence in the entire literature of intellience, from a practical stand-point. There are other sentences on ethics, on leadership, on focus, but in terms of the root nature of the intelligence discipline and all that is wrong with the USA approach to this discipline, this sentence is our favorite.
It is the last sentence on the last page of his second book, BODY OF SECRETS.
Typos fixed 28 Dec 09
This is Figure 2 in Chapter 1 of INTELLIGENCE for EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainability. The 20% that the UN receives today is based on UN input associated with our creation of the Class Before One Briefing, the UN slide as provided to Robert Steele can be found therein. For other UN intelligence training materials, see UN Intelligence Training.
The original conceptual depictions of “competing influences” on individual decision-makers were first developed by Dr. Greg Treverton teaching the Intelligence Policy Seminar at JIF School of Government, and Jack Davis, dean of the U.S. Intelligence Community scholar-analysts. The “eight tribes” (previously seven) are original to Robert Steele. Steele's adaptation of Davis-Treverton first appeared as Figure 17 on page 53 of ON INTELLIGENCE: Spies and Secrecy in an Open World (AFCEA, 2000).
