The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
This is the seminal work in what the author has long named “information mapping.” Posted as a public service with permission of the author, under Creative Commons license. No commercial exploitation is permitted without documented consent of the author.
Book intended to be read two pages at a time. The author suggests printing by the chapter, and then reading with even pages to the left and odd pages to the right, two pages at a time.
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PDF USMC Winning Submission to JNIDS*
*3 years after the fact, too late to fix, USMC was told that it had won, but the Admiral in charge of JNIDS said “We are a Navy shop, we will do a Navy problem.” This is emblematic of the pervasive corruption across DoD at every level across every mission area.
The 1976 graduate thesis has not, to the best of our knowledge, been superceeded. It could certainly be improved and updated. At the end it provides an operationalization (specification of data elements to be collected and analyzed) for each of the pre-conditions of revolution.
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Source (Citing McIver): 1975 MA Paper: The origin, status, and failure of the state as the sovereign mode of human organization
PDF: 1969 Croom Open Source Agency
Original Online Source (GWU.EDU/~NSARCHIV)
Phi Beta Iota: We are indebted to Dr. Hamilton Bean, who discovered this document in the course of doing research for his superb book, the first authentic book on open source intelligence in the context of a secret world that would rather be blind, deaf, and dumb, as long as it could do so as expensively as possible, and of course with impunity.
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Review (Guest): No More Secrets – Open Source Information and the Reshaping of U.S. Intelligence
Review: No More Secrets – Open Source Information and the Reshaping of U.S. Intelligence
