2004 Bjorgo (NO) Root Causes of Terrorism

GOLDEN CANDLE AWARD: Dr. Tore Bjorgo, Norway OSS ’04: To Dr. Tore Bjorgo, Senior Research Fellow of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), for his leadership of research on terrorism and international crime.  His authorship/editorship of ten books in the field represents the best combination of open sources, scholarship, and operationally-useful intelligence. Below is …

2004 Daly (US) Globalization and National Defense–Implications of the Effective Erasure of National Boundaries in an Era of Ecological Economics

GOLDEN CANDLE AWARD:  Dr. Herman E. Daly OSS ’04: To Dr. Herman E. Daly for his early role as a founder of the field of Ecological Economics, including his leadership role in the creation of the journal for this area of ethical study, and his body of work including Steady-State Economics (1977) and the most …

2004 Marlatt (US) Military Librarianship in an Academic Environment

Greta Marlatt is one of the librarian “top guns” at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monteray, California. The photo leads to her official page at NPS. She is known for many fine accomplishments but among them is her continuously updated bibliography on intelligence and public policy. The HTML version online does not appear to …

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

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 …