The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
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 a 2000-2002 slide that bears on the extraordinary possibilities inherent in creating a global multinational open source information sharing and sense-making grid. The 80-20 rule really does seem to stand up under most circumstances. White Hat (Stabilization & Reconstruction, Peaceful Preventive Measures) are especially responsible to shared open source information across all boundaries.
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2009 DoD OSINT Leadership and Staff Briefings
Both of these graphics were created for the eight-minute presentation on Real-Time Intelligence that can be viewed by clicking on either graphic (as always, words in Notes).
Twitter is, like most intelligence environments, a very large garbage pit with some potential.
The NYPD now does monitor Twitter and cross-walks anomalous events against Twitter plotted on Trends.
Twitter can also be used to reach a specific individual at a specific time and place, or to harness the dispersed population to observe and report specific conditions or tangible things.
East View Cartographic, the single most extraordinary geospatial support service in the commercial sector, created the attached without color; the G-2 of United Nations Forces Eastern Congo prioritized their needs (the West still does not have 1:50,000 combat chart with contour line coverage for most of the Third World, i.e. the bulk of the ungovernable unstable zones). It was this single graphic that got the Dutch government to approve a US$3 million expenditure to meet the needs of UN forces in the Eastern Congo.
NOTE: Not a single map existed. Green above represents the least urgent, yellow and red the more urgent.
This graphic, devised by Robert Steele, illustrates the logic of achieving a prosperous world at peace thorugh the combination of open information and total integrity. Clicking on the steps leads to the UN briefing. Clicking on the frog below left leads to the latest technical briefing while frog right goes to the UNICEF “Open Everything” briefing. The book-length version of this graphic is INTELLIGENCE for EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainability (EIN, 2010).
