The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
DNI Clapper Needs to Know The Weekly Standard, DEC 29, 2010 In fact, the more we learn about what the plotters were up to, as well as the efforts to stop them, the more troubling the DNI’s ignorance becomes. Three facts, in particular, have emerged that make this lapse inexcusable. First, the State Department says …
Decision-support (intelligence) is the ultimate objective of information processes. One must carefully distinguish between data which is raw text, signal, or image; information which is collated data of generic interest; and intelligence which is information tailored to support a specific decision… Robert David Steele Vivas On Intelligence (AFCEA, 2000) As noted in an earlier Journal …
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From Virtual Secretary of Defense Purpose The purpose of this memorandum is to establish priorities for my strategic objectives through 2012 and pending the concurrence of a new president with a proper staff, 2020. There is no such thing as strategic guidance for one year. This document informs without directing anyone. Intent My intent is …
Phi Beta Iota: The US Government continues to be chaotic in part because its civilian leaders simply do not know what they do not know. They have the best of intentions, but have been promoted into a new world far removed from the world imprinted on them in their formative years. There are four ways …
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Leewanta’s Observationer Posted in: Blogg on december 15, 2010 Vår gode vän Robert David Steele Vivas, förre detta spion vid CIA, långvarig underrättelseofficer inom Amerikansk intelligentia, grundare av paradigmet Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), talar ut i en intervju med oss beträffande den Amerikanska nationens tillstånd, och ger en mängd djupare, ja törs vi säga välunderrättade, …
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Phi Beta Iota: 78 pages representing the “state of the art” in DoD OSINT, remarkably pedestrian, not at all what one would expect after years of multi-million dollar expenditures by STRATCOM. The “priorities” on the very last page are particularly relevatory with respect to what is and is not being done by STRATCOM, pupportedly on …
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CIA mines ‘rich’ content from blogs 11:01 p.m., Tuesday, April 18, 2006 President Bush and U.S. policy-makers are receiving more intelligence from open sources such as Internet blogs and foreign newspapers than they previously did, senior intelligence officials said. The new Open Source Center (OSC) at CIA headquarters recently stepped up data collection and analysis …
