The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
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 …
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Now that everyone is paying attention, this is being posted in full text online in support of a larger M4IS2 / OSE dialog. Document: Strategic OSINT (Chapter 6 in Strataegic Intelligence Vol 2) 10 MB Links added below throughout, updated where appropriate. See Also: 21st Century Intelligence Core References 2.0 Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Robert …
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Huh? DIA sending hundreds more spies overseas By Greg Miller Washington Post, Saturday, December 1, 2012 The Pentagon will send hundreds of additional spies overseas as part of an ambitious plan to assemble an espionage network that rivals the CIA in size, U.S. officials said. The project is aimed at transforming the Defense Intelligence Agency, which …
UPDATE: 1 January 2013 from Spanish Dancer: What is most striking to me, and to a few others I have spoken to recently, is the SECDEF quote early in the paper. If we follow its premise it puts anyone who opposes our projection of power in the cross hairs. It is this doctrinal fluff that …
No credit to the OSINT pioneers from 1969 onwards, but the slow are finally catching up. BUT they still think OSINT is a technical collection challenge rather than a HUMINT opportunity. Intelligence Community Must Adapt To Era Of Vast Data, Study Says By Charles S. Clark The digital information revolution has handed the U.S. intelligence …
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Updated 21 Dec 2012 1800 Short Persistent URL for This Post: http://tinyurl.com/UN-21-Intel DOCUMENT: 2012 Reflections on UN Intelligence 2.3 21 Dec 2012 I had occasion to look at the Report of the Secretary General on the Work of the Organization, and thought this would be a good time to integrate some of what I have …
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Short Persistent URL: http://tinyurl.com/Kerry-Flournoy I wrote this with John Kerry and Michele Flourney in mind, but regardless of who is eventually made Secretary of Defense, the core concept remains: the center of gravity for massive change in the US Government and in the nature of how the US Government ineracts with the rest of the …
