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 …
As presented to the National Federation of Abstracting and Indexing Services in Washington, D.C. EXTRACT The Intelligence Community Was Built To Do Soviet Secrets The reality is that the intelligence community, in its designs and methods, its collection and production management decisions, and its resource allocations, has been so totally structured for a single mission, …
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PDF (2 Pages): National Security and National Competitiveness Full Text Below the Fold
Steele, Robert. “Welcoming Remarks by Robert D. Steele, Host: Consumer Needs, Data Changes, Technology Changes, Organizational Changes, Future Vision & Issues,” McLean, VA: First International Symposium on National Security & National Competitiveness, Open Source Solutions, December 1, 1992. Full Text Below the Fold
E3i: Ethics, Ecology, Evolution, and Intelligence Robert David Steele Whole Earth Review (Fall 1992), pp. 74-79. Original as Published Full Text Online for Ease of Automated Translation
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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General Gray was known as a warrior, but he was also an intelligence professional and uniquely among all the flag officers I have ever known, an inspiring educator. He created not just the Marine Corps Intelligence Center, but the Marine Corps University, new forms of informal research to empower younger officers and explore the “edges” …
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