The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Wayne Michael Hall and Gary Citrenbaum 4.0 out of 5 stars Utterly Brilliant, Mind-Glazing, 440 Pages of Straight Text, December 2, 2013 You could read this book a hundred times and learn something new every time. I have taken off one star because the book is too dense by far, with not a single graphic, …
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PRINTABLE DOC (3 Pages): Review Routledge Companion to Intelligence Studies Robert Dover (Editor), Michael S. Goodman (Editor), Claudia Hillebrand (Editor) 5.0 out of 5 stars The best collection in English — bold, innovative, essential, October 31, 2013 Routledge’s managing editor for this collection, and the contributing editors themselves, one of whom I know personally, have …
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Uncertainty on figures hampering food security efforts Mark Kinver BBC News, 4 October 2013 More than 600 scientists gathered in the Netherlands for a global food security conference, described as the first of its kind. Organisers said science could help end uncertainty surrounding efforts to meet the food needs of future generations. They added that, …
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John Diamond 4.0 out of 5 stars Got the Obvious Right, Misses Everything Else, September 4, 2013 I regard Retired Reader as an alter ego and top gun in the field, so his review has my vote. If the book were current (it was published in 2008) I would be tempted to buy it but …
Cyber Security Solutions for the DoD and Intelligence Community Guest Authors / Jon M. Stout Tripwire.com/State of Security, 3 September 2013 At first glance, it appears that the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Intelligence Community (IC) have the same cyber security needs as other large organizations in the commercial world. While this is true …
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INTELLIGENCE AGENCY BUDGETS REVEALED IN WASHINGTON POST Secret intelligence agency budget information was abundantly detailed in the Washington Post yesterday based on Top Secret budget documents released by Edward Snowden. See “U.S. spy network’s successes, failures and objectives detailed in ‘black budget’ summary” by Barton Gellman and Greg Miller, Washington Post, August 29. The newly …
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There is nothing new about open source information. What is new about open source intelligence (ethical evidence-based decision-support based solely on open, legal, ethical sources and methods) is the attempt to fully integrate the proven process of intelligence (requirements definition, collection management, source discovery and validation, multi-source fusion (both machine and human), visualization (both machine …
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