1996 Roger (AU) Open Source Strategies for Law Enforcement
Paul Roger entered mid-career working the Hong Kong Organized Crime target with a special focus on the triads. He mastered the art of working with indigenous street-level sources while leveraging back office colonial processing power. In Australia he invented “time travel” and this was the most provocative element of his OSS ’96 presentation, below. We …
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Handbook: Open Source Intelligence Professional Handbook, Joint Military Intelligence Training Center, Defense Intelligence Agency, October 1996
PDF (317 Pages): JMITC OSINT Handbook UPDATE: This published endeavor that I organized is what allowed me to write 100% of the NATO OSINT Handbook (85% after SACLANT staff made some excellent deletions and additions). The SOF OSINT Handbook was a completely new product.
1995 Bjore (SE) Six Years of Open Source Information (OSI) Lessons Learned
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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1995 Markowitz (US) Community Open Source Program Office (COSPO)
2006 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 valiently to nurture a program being systematically …
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1995 Schnittker (CA) Use of Open Sources in the Criminal Intelligence Program of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
Lori Schnittker, along with Steve Edwards at Scotland Yard, Frans Mulschlegel at EUROPOL, and Ivian Smith at the FBI, did all they could to press forward with the exploitation of open sources in support of criminal intelligence. Steve Edwards had the most success–Scotland Yard not only cuts it counter-terrorism and arms trade costs in half, …
1995 Ivian Smith (US) on US Intelligence Community Deficiencies
Ivian Smith, just prior to going to Little Rock during a Clinton Administration, was the top FBI executive for dealing with CIA on open source intelligence and related matters. His critique of both CIA and FBI is devastating–and this was in 1995, long before the litany of errors that allowed 9-11 to happen came to …
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