The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
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.
Dick Kerr, former Deputy Director of Central Intelligence for Intelligence (DDI), was among hte most personable and approachable intelligence leaders in retirement. Like Jim Schlesinger, who nailed it in the 1970's, he understood the problems, but “The Borg” has a life of its own absent a forced paradigm shift.
Gifford Pinchot captivated several hundred mid-career profressionals from around the world at OSS '97. He was so compelling that the long break was cancelled to give him overtime. Below is a copy of his presentation. See also the review of the book, The End of Bureaucracy, a copy of which was provided to each participant.
Without the leadership of then Capt Patrick Tyrrell, RN OBE, these handbooks would not exist today. He started the ball rolling, BGen Jim Cox, CA, then NATO and SHAPE Deputy J-2 organized a lecture to all the flag officers in charge of military intelligence, and finally directed SACLANT, then led by General William Kernan, USA, to create these first multinational doctrinal guides. Under the direct supervision of Admiral Sir William Pewone, RN, this was done over the course of two years. Below is the white paper and lecture that started it all.
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.
Paul Roger entered mid-career working the Hong Kong Organized Crime target with a special focus on the triads. He mastered the art of working with indigenous street-level sources while leveraging back office colonial processing power. In Australia he invented “time travel” and this was the most provocative element of his OSS '96 presentation, below. We have failed to study the history of organized crime such that we can stop it in its tracks as it migrates from Italy to Scotland, or Latin America to West Africa.
Whenever we get depressed about the inability of large organizations to “hear” we just remind ourselves that no one listens to Brent Scowcroft or Paul Strassmann either despite their stature as intellectual giants.
Strassmann is an enterprise unto himself after decades of being a CIO for Xerox, DoD, and then a reprise at NASA for Sean O'Keefe. His books are among the most vital for executives seeking to actually understand the business value of computing. Below is his presentation to OSS '96.
