The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
1997 US Presentation Steele DIA/JMITC: The Future of Intelligence 1995 US Presentation Steele CENDI & COSPO As Catalysts for National Security & Competitiveness 1994 US Presentation Steele Advantages of OSINT for National and Corporate Security 1993 US Presentation Steele OSS ’93: Reinventing National Intelligence—Advantages of OSINT
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 …
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This was a very original piece of work and a major step forward in the thinking on this topic. It would lead to a publication for the U.S. Institute of Peace in 1997. It is appropriate at this juncture to credit Dr. Professor Doug Dearth, long-time course coordinator for the National Senior Intelligence Officers Course …
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We must “recognize that 80% of what we consider intelligence–decision-support–is now either erroneously classified or not done at all, and this is the fundamental weakness of our national intelligence community. The three references: 1996 Testimony to Moynihan Commisson 1993 TESTIMONY on National Security Information 1992 E3i: Ethics, Ecology, Evolution, & intelligence (An Alternative Paradigm)
As Presented: OSS1997-03-03 Secrecy Primer Moynihan Commission The protection of “sources & methods” is a political gambit, not a legitimate claim for immunity. This testimony to the Moynihan Commission on Secrecy lays out the hypocricy in detail. See Also: OSS1997-03-02 Secrecy Seminar 1992 E3i: Ethics, Ecology, Evolution, & intelligence RELATED: Worth a Look: Books on …
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In 1986, Project GEORGE (Smiley) in the CIA’s Office of Information Technology discovered that computers had been designed without ever talking to librarians. There were created as unstructured bit buckets. It turns out that in the analog period, structure and the Dewey decimal system and humanly-constructed taxonomies were vitally important if one was to archive …
Mats Bjore, along with Arno Reuser, Steve Edwards, Joe Markowitz, is one of a tiny handful of “originals” who have striven to create the discipline of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) that has now morphed into M4IS2 (Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing and Sense-Making). Collective Intelligence, Cognitive Science, and Civil Affairs as well as Civil Society …
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