The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
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 …
Of all of the countries approached in 1994 by Robert Steele, only France and Singapore “got it,” but each went in different directions. Singapore appears to have been nuanced and holistic in his further progress, while France continues to struggle with bureaucracies that are, if anything worse than those of the USA. Still and all, …
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Private Enterprise Intelligence: Its Potential Contribution to National SecurityROBERT DAVID STEELE Intelligence and National Security (October 1995), pp. 212-228 Original as Posted Full Text Online to Facilitate Automated Translation
GOLDEN CANDLE AWARD: CONGRESSMAN ROB SIMMONS (R-CT-02) IOP ’06. To Congressman Rob Simmons (R-CT-02), who, as a pioneer in the 1990’s, won his first Golden Candle as a Lieutenant Colonel commanding an open source unit, later officially recognized as the “Best Small Unit in the US Army Reserve. As a Congressman, elected in 2000, he has …
PLATINUM LIFETIME AWARD Dr. Joseph Markowitz Dr. Joseph Markowitz is without question the most qualified Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) pioneer in the ranks of those presently in or retired from U.S. government service. As the only real chief of the Community Open Source Program Office (COSPO) he tried valiantly to nurture a program being systematically undermined …
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Harry Cllier created the Association for Global Strategic Information (AGSI) and has been the primary publisher for both Ben Gilad (arguably the top commercial intelligence advisor in the world) and Stephen E. Arnold (arguably the top information technology patent and capabiltiies analyst in the English-speaking world). He has long been a “hub” for the information …
Jan Herring, as National Intelligence Officer (NIO) for Science & Technology (S&T) at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), tried in the 1970’s to adddress the “severe deficiencies” in access to open sources of information. Historically, it has been the S&T analysts that understood the availability and value of open source information in all languages. He …
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