The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
GOLDEN CANDLE AWARD: Dr. Tore Bjorgo, Norway
OSS '04: To Dr. Tore Bjorgo, Senior Research Fellow of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), for his leadership of research on terrorism and international crime. His authorship/editorship of ten books in the field represents the best combination of open sources, scholarship, and operationally-useful intelligence.
Below is the presentation made by Dr. Borgo to OSS '06.
GOLDEN CANDLE AWARD: Dr. Herman E. Daly
OSS '04: To Dr. Herman E. Daly for his early role as a founder of the field of Ecological Economics, including his leadership role in the creation of the journal for this area of ethical study, and his body of work including Steady-State Economics (1977) and the most recent Ecological Economics and the Ecology of Economics (1999).
We discovered Dr. Daly's work when we made the leap from environmental scare mongering to his term, ecological economics. This great man, who spent most of his years in the University of Maryland system, has received every prize short of the Nobel Prize, and we were among those who urged the Nobel Comittee to recognize Daly and and others rather than the celeberity de jour. Below is his presentation to OSS '06. Please search for his books on this website, in the overcall scheme of strategic analytics, Herman Daly is “root.”
Jock Gill served President Bill Clinton as a communications specialist, and has gone on to reflect deeply on public communications as the inherent foundation of democracy. As part of that process he has recognized–and taught us and others–that open spectrum as championed by David Weinberger is an inherent “need” for full and open public communications.
Below are two documents, the first is his presentation notes from OSS '04, and the second is the first page linking to David Weingerger's seminal White Paper that was also published as a chapter in COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace. The Frog leads to the original online; the page on the right to the printable version of the chapter.
PLATINUM LIFETIME AWARD, Mr. Ben Harrison, OSINT Pioneer
Mr. Ben Harrison is a master of both the military bureaucracy, and the global open source intelligence (OSINT) world. He has been a pioneer in all respects–helping the larger Department of Defense Community understand OSINT; creating innovative solutions for his own Command, the U.S. Special Operations Command; and helping teach otherss about the basics of OSINT. Within the U.S. Department of Defense, he is the tip of the spear for DoD OSINT.
USSOCOM is still the only “full spectrum” Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) shop in the US Government–others do foreign media (in a handful of languages), document exploitation, legal traveler exploitation, but only USSOCOM does full-spectrum Black, Gray, and White OSINT that connects one bullet to one target. Below is his presentation to OSS '04.
Very frew “all-source” intelligence analysts in the US secret world impress us, in part because they will never actually be “all-source” until we get a grip on Open Source Intelligence (OSINT); in part because the secret world refuses to engage with 95% of the real-world and therefore will always lack of the historical and cultural perspectives that only multinatational information-sharing and sense-making networks can provide; and in part because half of them are very young and right out of school, with rotten tools, 1950's management chains and editing practices, and “no way out.”
On this page are three briefings from an individual that is the exception to the rule. This individual represents all that a perfect analyst should be, to include a non-negotiable demand for access to all relevant information in any languaage and any medium. This analyst gives force to the adage that one analyst with a brain is worth a thousand “analyst” bodies who only know how to cut and paste what they are spoon-fed by badly managed classified collection systems with no strategic perspective.
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,
