The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
William Hartung Final Review: Boring, Limited, Not for General Audience January 3, 2011 After reading this book, which I found to be extremely boring, I have to give Pierre Sprey very high marks for his substantive contributions to the C-SPAN Book interview of the author. My summary of that interview is therefore an important part …
In defense of RSS Lots of buzz today about RSS (dying or not dying). If you’re not using it, can I strongly suggest you give it a try? I use Newsfire. Not sure the particular readers matters, though. Here’s what you need to know: It’s not particularly difficult to keep up with 200 blogs you …
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CIA mines ‘rich’ content from blogs 11:01 p.m., Tuesday, April 18, 2006 President Bush and U.S. policy-makers are receiving more intelligence from open sources such as Internet blogs and foreign newspapers than they previously did, senior intelligence officials said. The new Open Source Center (OSC) at CIA headquarters recently stepped up data collection and analysis …
If the search is intended to find Steele’s quote on the relative cost of HUMINT in comparison to all other (technical) INTs, the best search is on Google for <pdf steele HUMINT “fraction of the cost”>. If you are looking for the Joe Markowitz’ slide on relative cost versus satisfaction of the various INTs, from …
Military Launches Afghanistan Intelligence-Gathering Mission By Joshua Partlow KABUL — On their first day of class in Afghanistan, the new U.S. intelligence analysts were given a homework assignment. First read a six-page classified military intelligence report about the situation in Spin Boldak, a key border town and smuggling route in southern Afghanistan. Then read a …
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Capabilities Of U.S. Intelligence Agencies Questioned Congressional critics have singled out the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), established as part of a sweeping intelligence overhaul after the September 11 attacks. “I do not (have), nor do I believe the DNI as currently constructed has, all of …
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More Than Espionage: Open-source intelligence should be part of solution Washington Times January 27, 2010 Pg. B3 By Andrew M. Borene Here’s some food for thought: White House policymakers and Congress can help develop an increasingly robust national intelligence capacity by investing new money in the pursuit of a centralized open-source intelligence (OSINT) …
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