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Sir, A possible illustration seeking to relate OSINT to HUMINT particularly and other disciplines as well.  Edit if needed please. Dear Colleague, You provided this illustration:

Sir, Please give something comprehensive about your Burundi experience. Dear Colleague, My report on this is here: Reference: Open Source Burundi Exercise However, there are a couple of graphics additional that I offer below

Sir, Sometimes I feel as if information is being released to the public in very clever ways, and other times I feel as if information is being manipulated or hidden in ways I may not be able to detect. Do you have any thoughts on disinformation and how to deal with disinformation?

Sir, I have made the following diagram. Please comment.  This is a draft and not a final pic, as will be the case with most of what I have been sending and will send in the future. I am also attaching the link for a CIA OSC Okhinawa report that I had found online. Kindly …

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Sir, 1- OSINT definitely relates to HUMINT to the extent that it involves an analyst’s presence of mind. Primary data on OSINT (govt docs) are old and hardly any attention has been paid to cybersecurity, safer communications. Also, Open Source Info has increased tremendously over the years calling ICT engineers to research and produce more …

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Sir, kindly guide on – 1- How can OSINT ops be successively conducted on closed information states like China or North Korea? (Attaching a file I had downloaded) 2- Is the information that China generally makes public through its stare-run agencies reliable and sufficient? 3- Is there any research paper or unclassified information over the …

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Sir, I have noticed one particular characteristic of OSINT which is that any OSINT process involves two actions, namely, intelligence collection and then intelligence analysis. I have observed that OSINT collection process is technical and requires thorough understanding of different technologies, softwares and methodologies while intelligence analysis depends more upon the analyst’s judgment. This brings …

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