The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The searches are of enormous value to us in identifying what folks are looking for and when they don’t find it, how we can improve. Based on a number of searches that appear to originate from law enforcement on one side and NATO/multinational on the other, we have restructured the Handbook index and now offer: …
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PLATINUM LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT, Dr. Ran Hock Dr. Ran Hock has done more than any single individual to educate both government and private sector parties with respect to the value of the deep web. He has single-handedly trained hundreds of individuals in the nuances of this major new intelligence resource base. Emphasizing individual analytic skills and …
The search term brings up appropriate results, but the fact of the search gives us an opportunity to provide comment. 1) Nothing now being used by governments, and certainly not iBase or Palantir, both aging technologies that do not scale and have too many fat-finger handicaps, fulfills the originial requirements documents crafted in the late …
More Than Espionage: Open-source intelligence should be part of solution Washington Times January 27, 2010 Pg. B3 By Andrew M. Borene Here’s some food for thought: White House policymakers and Congress can help develop an increasingly robust national intelligence capacity by investing new money in the pursuit of a centralized open-source intelligence (OSINT) …
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Phi Beta Iota: Below are two comments. Original source comment, a CIA-trained SOF retired O-6: Article is loaded with some phrases and abbreviations that even I, who normally speaks that sort of thing with native fluency, had some problems with. Seems to me that the military has taken a tough job, particularly in a combat …
Gates: No good intel on Osama bin Laden in years Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the United States has not had good intelligence on the whereabouts of terrorist Osama bin Laden in years. Gates made the comment in an interview to be aired Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.” The Counter-Revolution In Military Affairs I (2009) …
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The future of OSINT is M4IS2. The future of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is Multinational, Multifunctional, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing & Sense-Making (M4IS2). The following, subject to the approval of Executive and Congressional leadership, are suggested hueristics (rules of thumb): Rule 1: All Open Source Information (OSIF) goes directly to the high side (multinational top secret) …
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