The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Greta Marlatt is one of the librarian “top guns” at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monteray, California. The photo leads to her official page at NPS.
She is known for many fine accomplishments but among them is her continuously updated bibliography on intelligence and public policy.
The HTML version online does not appear to be available at this time (Aug 09).
Below is her presentation to OSS '04,
Prof. Michael Andregg, Chief OSINT Shrink (USA)
IOP '06. For academic excellence and support to the dual concepts of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) across all seven tribes of intelligence, and the urgent need for intelligence reform, inclusive of a psychological re-orientation away from compartmented lunacy and toward inclusive openness. Professor Andregg embodies the concept of Information Peacekeeping–conflict deterrence and stabilizing wealth creation through the sharing of open information in all languages.
In 2003 Pofessor Andregg, one of the few who really understood both the distinctions among the eight tribes of intelligence, and the urgency of cross-fertilizing among them, provided the below overview.
Surely one of the most erudite and persistent scholars with a practitioner's appreciation for nuances, his presentation to OSS '97 was unique for addressing both the enormous fluctuations in the handling of intelligence from one president to another, and the history as well as the prospects for relations among secret and open source enterprises.
Temporarily two documents, move past Dick Kerr who has his own page, this document is being split up and will be properly mounted in the very near future.
The educational system is in complete disarray and producing masses of mediocrities. Occasionally, however, a student overcomes the inherent liabilities of a factory/rote learning system and excels. This paper from a Georgetown student of D.r Loren B. Thompson is worthy and was included in the Proceedings of OSS '96.
In 1986, Project GEORGE (Smiley) in the CIA's Office of Information Technology discovered that computers had been designed without ever talking to librarians. There were created as unstructured bit buckets. It turns out that in the analog period, structure and the Dewey decimal system and humanly-constructed taxonomies were vitally important if one was to archive and retrieve knowledge within the limits of the individual human. During the middle period, which is STILL IN PROGRESS, computers have failed to get a grip on unstructured information. As Stephen E. Arnold and others have documented, electronic search yields less than 10% of what is online (apart from deep web not covered by any of the 75 search engines, there are C drives and peripheral drives that have not been indexed). Although David Weinberg is correct in his book Everything is Miscellaneous, and the digital world opens the propect for infinitely sharing information while retaining the original, and for creating infinite wealth by eliminating information asymmetries and data pathologies that favor the few at the expense of the many, there is no single government, corporation, organization, or collective other than Earth Intelligence Network and its affiliated society, Phi Beta Iota, that is actually committed to realizing the full potential of humans as H. G. Wells, Pierre Tielhard de Chardin, Stewart Brand, Kevin Kelly, and others have envisioned: as the World Brain within Earth Game, all humans, all minds, all the time. See the 2009 article on Human Intelligence by clicking on the icon below.
