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Taxonomy of OSINT Sources

A detailed index of sources and data types to support source awareness and intelligence collection.

What constitutes an open source of intelligence? How many of these sources do you consult in the course of your work? And what format do they take? i-intelligence has put together a Taxonomy of OSINT Sources to support source awareness, intelligence collection and general information literacy.

Aleksandra Bielska

i-intelligence, 7 December 2011

These questions are not without merit. They inevitably pop up in the course of a seminar or consulting assignment. To help answer them, the i-intelligence team has pulled together a “Taxonomy of OSINT Sources”. The taxonomy is intended to serve a number of purposes:

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2012/11/282012/12/16

2012 Steele for Branson: The Virgin Truth 2.6

Access, BTS (Base Transciever Station), Crowd-Sourcing, Culture, Economics/True Cost, Education, Geospatial, Governance, Hardware, Innovation, Knowledge, Money, P2P / Panarchy, Politics, Resilience, Software, Sources (Info/Intel), Spectrum, Transparency

DOCUMENT (1 Page): Virgin Truth 2.6R

2004/09/052016/07/27

Testimony: White Paper for DCI John Negoponte on Leveraging OSINT to Enhance CIA/IC Mission Success

Data, Design, Innovation, Knowledge, Software, Sources (Info/Intel)

Robert David Steele

ROBERT STEELE: A large company paid me to write this in 2004, ostensibly as a white paper to be delivered to then newly-appointed DNI John Negoponte. In fairness to that company, even if they were honest on this point and not just buying my playbook, the prime contract they won with the Open Source Center (OSC) then being managed by Doug Naquin was designed to fail — OSE has never understood OSINT as HUMINT, and is further handicapped by the CIA's Clandestine Service forbidding them from engaging Subject Matter Experts (SME) outside their narrow online surfing and translation lanes. Together with my white paper faxed to then DCI John Deutch, and my memorandum to Vice President Joe Biden, this remains one of my most useful documents for actually creating a national Open Source Agency.

DOC (43 Pages): White Paper Draft 5.5 dtd 7 Sanitized

Full Text with Graphics Below the Fold

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