Berto Jongman: CIA Claims It Lost Dozens of Spies in China and Iran to Failed Google Covert Communications (Robert Steele Comments: BULLSHIT — This is a Cover Story for Not Having Any Spies in Those Countries)

Dozens of US spies killed after Iran and China uncovered CIA messaging service using Google One former official claiming that “our biggest insider threat is our own institution”. The CIA’s communications suffered a catastrophic compromise. It started in Iran. Yahoo News’ reporting on this global communications failure is based on conversations with eleven former U.S. …

Berto Jongman: Beacon and Warning: Sherman Kent, Scientific Hubris, and the CIA’s Office of National Estimates

Beacon and Warning: Sherman Kent, Scientific Hubris, and the CIA’s Office of National Estimates J. Peter Scoblic, a doctoral candidate at Harvard Business School, is a fellow in the International Security Program at New America and the author of U.S. vs. Them: Conservatism in the Age of Nuclear Terror. “From bias to probabilities, Kent anticipated …

Boyd Davis Sutton: In Memory – Godfather of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)

Boyd Davis Sutton, 1941-2018 Boyd Davis Sutton died suddenly this past week following a 76 year love affair with life. His official obituary in now online. In the mid-1990’s Boyd was asked by then Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet to study the shortfalls and potential solutions for achieving “global coverage” of the world, something …

Berto Jongman: RAND on OSINT — Without Integrity

RAND_RR1964_OSINT_2018 Rethinking OSINT as an Intelligence Discipline Defining Open Source and OSINT OSINT Subtypes …News Media Content …Gray Literature. …Long-Form Social Media Content …Short-Form Social Media Content OSINT Methodology: The OSINT Operations Cycle …Collection …Processing …Exploitation …Production

Stephen E. Arnold: CIA Seeks Universal Text Translator [Robert Steele: CIA Remains Stupid, Has Not Learned a Damn Thing Since 1986]

Universal Text Translation Is the Next Milestone for AI As the globe gets smaller, individuals are in more contact with people who don’t speak their language. Or, we are reading information written in a foreign language. Programs like Google Translate are flawed at best and it is clear this is a niche waiting to be …