Category: #OSE Open Source Everything

Sir,

I constantly encounter two issues:

First, the spies think that Wikileaks and everything online is OSINT, they do not factor in analog sources or even human sources that are not controlled agents.

Second, and related,  they think that the best open source information is to be found within the government agencies, and do not consider external sources or what you call the “eight” tribes.

Is there a 3-7 paragraphs and 3-7 graphic primer for spy leaders willing to entertain new ideas?

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Sir,

How correct is the given depiction by Mr Gibson (PhD Thesis)?

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Sir,

Do you have any case study on some OSINT op? How does one persuade a Station Head to use OSINT in support of his  clandestine and technical operations? I am finding that there is more information about secret successes than there is about OSINT successes at the same time that OSINT was eclipsed by the “false God” of the Internet pretending to be OSINT.

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Sir:

In my paper, I am including ‘What OSINT is not'. Imagine that you are telling a stubbornly dedicated SIGINT operator about OSINT. The operator believes OSINT to be some simple net surfing used for gaining cursory information on anything. Or he relates OSINT to needle-in-haystack kind of discipline where discoveries are made by chance. How would you proceed to teach OSINT to such a person?

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