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Click on the photograph for direct access to Philippe Clerc's 1996 contribution. In 1998 he gave use permission to extract Chapter 22 from the World Information Report 1997/1998 as published by UNESCO.
The presentation by Kenneth Hughes of the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) is historic in large part because it is the single instance of FBIS taking the rest of the world seriously. In its new incarnation it deals with 11 countries and ignores the other 79 known to have Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) capabilities. Mr. Hughes' speech abstract is provided below.
In fairness to FBIS/OSC, it is not possible for those good people trapped in a bad system to overcome the cultural, historical, legal, linguistic, and security constraints they are forevermore imbued with. As can be seen by clicking on the FBIS logo, the “OSINT” that is produced is generally classified and always restricted to US Government employees and contractors.
This is one reason the Smart Nation Act provides for a separation between open source intelligence elements that serve the secret world alone, and open source intellience elements, such as those of the Departments of Commerce, Defense, Energy, and State, that understand the vital importance of being able to share information and make sense on a multinational multicultural basis in 183 languages FBIS cannot get a grip on.
We advocate a Civil Affairs proponency role for OSINT “outside the wire,” and military J-2 proponency for “inside the wire” inter-agency and coalition information-sharing and sense-makingf.
When Nelson Mandela achieved the end of aparthied and the virtual reunification of South Africa, the best and the brightest from the African National Congress (ANC) went into the intelligence field. Today (2009) the President of Souith Africa, “JZ” Zuma, is himself the former director of intelligence for the ANC when it was in the resistance, and he plans to create a world-class intelligence training program for all African nations at the South African National Academy of Intelligence (SANAI) which Deputy President Zuma personally re-opened in 2003. Below are the planned remarks of Mr. Mti, then serving as Coordinator for Intelligence in the Office of the President.
We would never have gotten a Commissioner from the European Union without the help of Madame Judge Danielle Cailloux, investigative judge and lead oversight entrepreneur for the Belgian intelligence community. Many do not realize that information is like a work of art, and its provenance and security are vital to its INTEGRITY. Europe has been far ahead of the USA in its mindfulness of the value of regulation that combines integrity and insight.
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.