1997 Creating a “Bare Bones” Capability for Open Source Support to Defense Intelligence Analysis

DOC: Creating a Bare Bones OSINT Capability When Paul Wallner, on rotation from DIA to CIA, first attempted to establiksh an Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) concept of operations, this was the first paper delivered to him.  At the same time, he gave OSS a fair shot at business with ten trial weekly reports spanning everything …

1997 Davis A Compendium of Analytic Tradecraft Notes

PLATINUM Jack Davis, Virtual Dean of US All-Source Analytic Corps For over three decades, Jack Davis has been the heir to Sherman Kent and the mentor to all those who would strive to be the world’s most effective all-source intelligence analysts.  As a Central Intelligence Agency analyst and educator, he combines intellect, integrity, insight, and …

1996 Roger (AU) Open Source Strategies for Law Enforcement

Paul Roger entered mid-career working the Hong Kong Organized Crime target with a special focus on the triads.  He mastered the art of working with indigenous street-level sources while leveraging back office colonial processing power.  In Australia he invented “time travel” and this was the most provocative element of his OSS ’96 presentation, below.  We …

Reference (1996): The Brown Commission and the Future of Intelligence

The Brown Commission and the Future of Intelligence A Roundtable Discussion On 1 March 1996, the Commission on the Roles and Capabilities of the United States Intelligence Community (the Brown Commission) issued its report to the President and to Congress. On 26 March, Studies in Intelligence board members Brian Latell, Robert Herd, John Wiant, and …

1993 Corporate Role in National Competitiveness: Smart People + Good Tools + Information = Profit (Full Text Online for Google Translate)

Corporate Role in National Competitiveness: Smart People + Good Tools + Information = Profit What is the Secretary of Labor trying to tell us that the Director of Central Intelligence needs to help his staff to understand? Robert David Steele – Vivas Proceedings, Society of Photo-Optical Engineers (Spring 1994) Original As Published (OSS ’93) Full …