The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
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 …
Intelligence Primer: How to Inform Policy Robert David Steele Adjunct Faculty Marine Corps University Cleared for Publication 16 March 1992 NOTE: For reasons unknown, this version did not include endnotes. It draws heavily on the work of Jack Davis and Greg Treverton. Proper credit to them can be found in ON INTELLIGENCE: Spies and Secrecy …
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How to Avoid Future Strategic Intelligence Failures This article focuses on three concerns of mine that are central to ensuring that the restructuring effort is meaningful. First, what “sins” of strategic intelligence persist in the face of restructuring? Second, how must the nature of the individual intelligence analyst, their working conditions, and their relationship to …
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Author: Robert Steele, then Special Assistant of the Marine Corps Intelligence Center APOLOGY. When we changed providers for oss.net we lost some of the links. I have this somewhere. It was hugely substantive and part of my effort to redirect the US intelligence community but I was easily shut down by JCS, Big Army, and …
Winn Schwartau Congressional Testimony Digital Pearl Harbor, 27 June 1991 Hearing before the Subcommittee on Technology and Competitiveness of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, 102nd Congress, 1st Session, June 27, 1991 [No. 42].
Intelligence in the 1990’s: Recasting National Security in a Changing World I am constantly being asked a bottom-line defense number. I don’t know of any logical way to arrive at such a figure without analyzing the threat; without determining what changes in our strategy should be made in light of the changes in the threat; …
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Action Officer/Author: Robert Steele, then Special Assistant, Marine Corps Intelligence Center.
