The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Dot, Dot, Dot . . . March 10, 2010 In his new book The Watchers, (Penguin Press, 2010), Shane Harris chronicles what he calls “the rise of America’s surveillance state,” a process he’s been following since he was a reporter and technology editor at Government Executive from 2001 to 2005. It’s a story with all …
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Phi Beta Iota: The Human Terrain Team (HTT) is a mutant created as a program management turf and self-aggrandizement endeavor. It lacks the special skills or defined mission relevance of an Interrogator-Translator Team (ITT) or a Civil Affairs roving liaison element. See the Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Trilogy.
Steve Fondacaro and Montgomery Clough, senior program management of the US Army’s Human Terrain System (HTS), were warned as early as 2007 that Human Terrain Team members in Iraq and Afghanistan would become prey for insurgent groups. They were advised repeatedly that training must emphasize the dangerous environment HTS employees would be operating in. That …
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China Removed As Top Priority For Spies The decision downgrades China from “Priority 1” status, alongside Iran and North Korea, to “Priority 2,” which covers specific events such as the humanitarian crisis after the Haitian earthquake or tensions between India and Pakistan. One new area that has been given a higher intelligence priority under the …
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Somebody somewhere has to do this, and do it with over 90 nations, all NGOs, and global reach into all academic and private sector organizations desiring to share information and do multilateral sense-making. References: 2009 DoD OSINT Leadership and Staff Briefings 2009: Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Trilogy Search: The Future of OSINT [is M4IS2-Multinational] Search: Intelligence …
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Forthcoming in Strategic Studies Institute Mongraph on Human Intelligence (HUMINT) approved for publication by CIA and DoD. In the interim, can be seen at www.oss.net/HUMINT.
