The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Why Spy? John Perry Barlow Forbes, 10.07.02 If the spooks can’t analyze their own data, why call it intelligence? For more than a year now, there has been a deluge of stories and op-ed pieces about the failure of the American intelligence community to detect or prevent the September 11, 2001, massacre. Nearly all of …
PDF (17 Pages): 1993 Toffler Chapter The Future of the Spy Alvin Toffler was stuggling with a chapter tentative focused on the future of knowledge, when TASC executives sent him a copy of the Proceedings from OSS 1992. He read-in, interviewed Robert Steele by telephone, and this chapter was born, built around five pages sub-titled …
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Arnie Donahue was the only person in the Office of Management and Budget with ALL of the CODEWORD compartments. He knew where every dollar was going, at the time $30 billion or so. When he stood up and said “There is PLENTY of Money for Open Source,” there was an ambient chill. Everyone wanted to …
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PDF: 1992 Information Concepts & Doctrine for the Future Full Text Online Below the Fold
The below memorandum is very professional and a tangible example of the diligence that Paul Wallner, on detail from DIA to run the Community Open Source Program Office (COSPO) in its first incarnation, brought to the job. Paul Wallner coined the term “source of first resort,” and he did everything in his power to get …
Tom Pedtke was the single most important practitioner during the 1992 surge when we thought we had a chance to get it right. Coming out of the National Air Intelligence Center (NAIC) in Cleveland, Ohio, he had an appreciation for “full spectrum” Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) such as would never be achieved by those steeped …
