Reference: CRS 2010 Intelligence Issues for Congress

Tip of the Hat to Gary Price at LinkedIn. Phi Beta Iota: This is of passing interest as an overview of what people are thinking about at the shallowest possible level in relation to the Wall Street/Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex (MICC). STRIKE ONE: The document still does not understand that overt Human Intelligence (HUMINT) is 90% of …

Worth a Look: Momentum Crowdsourcing for Open Source Intelligence

MOMENTUM: REAL OPEN SOURCE INTELLIGENCE Here’s a short essay on a new software tool my team built called Momentum. It does something pretty unusual and worthy of note.  It uses crowdsourcing (by leveraging the work of 500 million users on global social networks) to make open source intelligence gathering easy.* ___________________ Here are some real …

Journal: Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Successes

(1) If true, probably a good idea. (2) Appears that indiscretions abound. Miami Herald November 6, 2010 Spy Agencies Use Ex-Captives To Infiltrate Al Qaeda By Paisley Dodds, Associated Press LONDON — Months after he was released from Guantánamo Bay, Abdul Rahman was back in the company of terrorist leaders along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. But …