Reference: Spy Credibility & Open Source

How to Restore Spies Credbility: Go Open Source By Noah Shachtman December 14, 2007 In the mid ’90s, Robert Steele, a former-CIA officer and early proponent of open source intelligence, testified before the Aspin-Brown Commission about the tremendous value of unclassified information. The Commission decided to put this open source intelligence, or “OSINT,” to the …

Bruce Berkowitz: Failing to Keep Up With the Information Revolution The DI and “IT”

Failing to Keep Up With the Information Revolution: The (CIA) DI and “IT” Bruce Berkowitz Studies in Intelligence, 2007 During 2001-2002, I was a Scholar-in-Residence at the Sherman Kent Center for Intelligence Analysis, the “think tank” attached to the CIA’s training center for analysts.  The CIA has long used such scholars as expert analysts, but …