The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
This is the cover letter to the US Government official most responsible for thinking about the National Information Infrastructure (NII) and the security of that infrastructure. Three “top guns,” one of the the foremost authority in the public arena, another the foremost expert on these matters advising the National Security Agency (NSA) all agreed on …
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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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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 …
Corporate Role in National Competitiveness: Smart People + Good Tools + Information = Profit What is the Secretary of Labor trying to tell us that the Director of Central Intelligence needs to help his staff to understand? Robert David Steele – Vivas Proceedings, Society of Photo-Optical Engineers (Spring 1994) Original As Published (OSS ’93) Full …
This was faxed to John Deutch when he was DCI. It probably made it to his desk only to be dismissed as it was not from anyone remotely associated with power or money. This was the beginning of our realization, articulated in 1997 for the US Institute for Peace, that those with power know too …
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In 1993 the Prime Minister of France was furious with his intelligence community. His direct aide for intelligence was Col Louis Dilais, a former chief of the Americas branch in French military intelligence. He put Open Source Intelligence on the agenda for a special conference in the French Senate, with the other major speakers being …
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PDF: 1993 Access Theory and Practice Original Best This document was originally funded by a small French firm based in McLean, and ultimately led to an invitation to address a national conference in the French Senate. Two individuals in France made an impression during a trip to the 1993 information industry conference there: Henry Stiller, …
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