The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Although the search produces a number of hits, including Graphic: OSINT Competing Models, it misses Graphic: OSINT Two Views as well as some larger references because OSINT is out and M4IS2 (Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing and Sense-Making is new new meme in town, originating with the Swedish military and specifically Col Jan-Inge Svensson and …
Ref A: 2008 Open Source Intelligence (Strategic) Ref B: 2008 Open Source Intelligence (Operational) Ref C:2009 DoD OSINT Leadership and Staff Briefings Ref D: 2008 IJIC 21/3 The Open Source Program: Missing in Action Ref E: 2006 IJIC 19/1 Intelligence Affairs: Evolution, Revolution, or Reactionary Collapse?” See also:
Jan Herring, the first National Intelligence Officer for Science & Technology (NIO/S&T) is the father of Open Source Intelligence in the USA. Now retired, his baton has been picked up by Robert Steele, who took the campaign multinational. The history continuing resistance to what was originally Jan Herring’s lead is covered briefly in 2008 IJIC …
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This is the original “Four Quadrants” slide created in the 1990’s to show the human-centered path from what we do now (still), internal knowledge management, through social network information creation to external research (humans are central) and finally to organizational intelligence where machines and humans properly managed are a perfect blend. Note J-2 is the …
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This did not yield what it should have when we tested it. Here is what you might find helpful. Graphic: Human Intelligence (HUMINT) J-2 Central Note the emphasis on treating Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) as an extension of Human Intelligence (HUMINT) rather than as it is now treated by DoD and the US IC, as …
Somebody somewhere has to do this, and do it with over 90 nations, all NGOs, and global reach into all academic and private sector organizations desiring to share information and do multilateral sense-making. References: 2009 DoD OSINT Leadership and Staff Briefings 2009: Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Trilogy Search: The Future of OSINT [is M4IS2-Multinational] Search: Intelligence …
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The 9-11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, 26 July 2004. As found on Page 23 in the Summary and Page 413 within Chapter 13, “How to Do It? A different Way of Organizing the Government.” See also: Search: The Future of OSINT [is M4IS2-Multinational]
