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2003 Fyffe (CA) Intelligence Sharing and Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)

Greg Fyffe retired before his contributioins could be properly acknowledged.  He  excelled at understanding the value of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) in meeting political decision-support needs that must of necessity be discussed with and explained to parties outside the government.  He also excelled at seeing the role that OSINT could play in facilitating what the …

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1997 Creating a “Bare Bones” Capability for Open Source Support to Defense Intelligence Analysis

DOC: Creating a Bare Bones OSINT Capability When Paul Wallner, on rotation from DIA to CIA, first attempted to establiksh an Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) concept of operations, this was the first paper delivered to him.  At the same time, he gave OSS a fair shot at business with ten trial weekly reports spanning everything …

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1995 Bjore (SE) Six Years of Open Source Information (OSI) Lessons Learned

Mats Bjore, along with Arno Reuser, Steve Edwards, Joe Markowitz, is one of a tiny handful of “originals” who have striven to create the discipline of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) that has now morphed into M4IS2 (Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing and Sense-Making).  Collective Intelligence, Cognitive Science, and Civil Affairs as well as Civil Society …

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