The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
This is the budget created to support Col Vincent Stewart, USMC, then the action officer for surveying Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) reequirements and capabilities across the Department of Defense (DoD). This amount–not necessarily these specific priorities–was offered to the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), which continues to have the only full-spectrum OSINT capability in the …
Useful Contribution, Neglects Outputs & Constituencies, May 28, 2008
How to Restore Spies Credbility: Go Open Source By Noah Shachtman December 14, 2007 In the mid ’90s, Robert Steele, a former-CIA officer and early proponent of open source intelligence, testified before the Aspin-Brown Commission about the tremendous value of unclassified information. The Commission decided to put this open source intelligence, or “OSINT,” to the …
WIRED MAGAZINE DANGER ROOM By Noah Shachtman December 14, 2007 In the mid ’90s, Robert Steele, a former-CIA officer and early proponent of open source intelligence, testified before the Aspin-Brown Commission about the tremendous value of unclassified information. The Commission decided to put this open source intelligence, or “OSINT,” to the test and directed that …
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Phi Beta Iota Editorial Comment (DOI: 11 August 2009) This directive is “senior” to directive 301 but rather strangely does not appear to be included in the essential references relevant to creating the OSINT discipline. Key points: 1. OSINT is co-equal to HUMINT and TECHINT in DNI emphasis and stature, but the ADDNI/OS does not …
This Author Sees the Side of Knowledge I Do Not…, September 3, 2007
Operational OSINT (Chapter 10 in Handbook of Intelligence Studies) with p 145 Executive Summary – Definition and scope – Open source intelligence and joint or coalition operations – Private sector information offerings – OSINT and the emerging future intelligence architecture of NATO Introduction to Open Source Intelligence – Definitions – OSINT in context – OSINT …
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