The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
DOC: Creating a Bare Bones OSINT Capability When Paul Wallner, on rotation from DIA to CIA, first attempted to establiksh an Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) concept of operations, this was the first paper delivered to him. At the same time, he gave OSS a fair shot at business with ten trial weekly reports spanning everything …
Philippe Clerc has been active in World Information Forum and related activities at the international level, and in France within the emergent economic and financial intelligence environment. Below is his presentation to OSS ’96. It merits mention that the French learned a hard lesson in 1993–their steel industry realized that their competitive intelligence effort against …
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Something of a renaissance man, Mort Zuckerman is active across real estate, the media (US News & World Report), the talk shows, and the Smithsonian cultural circuit. Below is his hard-hitting commentary as presented at OSS ’96. Read this carefully. See especially the use of the word “manic.” The US Government is not trained, equipped, …
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The Brown Commission and the Future of Intelligence A Roundtable Discussion On 1 March 1996, the Commission on the Roles and Capabilities of the United States Intelligence Community (the Brown Commission) issued its report to the President and to Congress. On 26 March, Studies in Intelligence board members Brian Latell, Robert Herd, John Wiant, and …
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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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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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A year prior to its appearance in Government Information Quarterly, the concept of a “Smart Nation” was presented at OSS ’95. In 1994 the concept was presented in person to over ten governments around the world, Singapore was the only one to “get it.”
