Answers on OSINT for India 24 – Does Open Source Information Sharing by Secret Agencies Have Security Downsides?

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Sir, as we know info sharing is the strategy in OSINT. I observed that info is majorly multi-domain i.e. whatever we collect has security implications in major domains. For example, if a SIGINT operator pounces upon some piece of grey lit that has one portion concerning diplomacy then the same part needs to be conveyed to someone in policy intel.

Can you send some reading, grey lit, newspaper report or anything that might be considered to be close to having intel value and have multi-domain info contained in the piece of info.

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Answers on OSINT for India 23 – OSINT for One or OSINT for All?

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Sir,

The national security field as we define it does not include policy intelligence such as you seem to feel is needed for the twelve core policies that you identify — including local law enforcement — that are outside our “lane” called national security.

I cannot change this but wonder if you have a comment.

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