The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
AT CIA, CLIMATE CHANGE IS A SECRET When the Central Intelligence Agency established a Center on Climate Change and National Security in 2009, it drew fierce opposition from congressional Republicans who disputed the need for an intelligence initiative on this topic. But now there is a different, and possibly better, reason to doubt the value …
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The existing US definitions of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) are severely deficient at multiple levels. See the official definitions below the line. Here is a proper definition devised with Joe Markowitz and others who actually know something about the discipline. Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is decision-support (an output not an input) that integrates open sources …
Creating a Smart Nation–and a World Brain–demands the participation of all of the people all of the time.
Proposers’ Day Notice for the IARPA Open Source Indicators (OSI) Program Solicitation Number: IARPA-BAA-11-11(pd) Agency: Office of the Director of National Intelligence Office: Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity Location: IARPA1 Solicitation Number: IARPA-BAA-11-11(pd) Notice Type: Presolicitation Synopsis: Added: Jul 01, 2011 2:52 pm Complete information below the line.
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Hamilton Bean $49.95, 218 pages Available for Pre-Order, 31 May 2011 Phi Beta Iota: Mr. Bean means well, but this is a three star book at best, losing one star for being grotesquely over-priced and a second for being completely out of touch with the Open Source Intelligence world outside the albino incest pit at …
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osint vs humint Machine search–ugly. The answer: 1. Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is a sub-discipline of all of the traditional disciplines, as well as a discipline in its own right, but it is closest to Human Intelligence (HUMINT) and should be managed concurrently with HUMINT, which has fifteen slices, only four of which are classified. …
