Graphic: OSINT Two Views

The view on the left is a  view from one lacking the deep broad experience to challenge the secret mandarins.  It is a subservient position that is both detrimental to the whole of the secret world, and incompatible with external multinational operations. OSINT is a “hybrid” discipline that is simultaneously: 1.  A full-fledged discipline in …

Graphic: OSINT Cell

This was the basic OSINT cell recommended to the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in 1990.  We still need to get to where every Agency and every major Command and every partner across each of the other seven tribes of intelligence has such a cell, and they are all linked in a global Open Source Information …

Reference: Intelligence Community Directive (ICD) 205 Analytic Outreach

This is an excellent directive that is being ignored across the entire U.S. Intelligence Community, and most speciicially is being violated by the unpressional narrow and unresponsive (and largely ignorant) behavior of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Open Source Center (OSC) which is supposed to be a service of common concern but has obstinantly refused …