The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
After Jardines broke his word and stole Steele’s conference, and then imploded, DNI staff seems to have taken a strategic pause, along with delegating its ADDNI/OS responsibilities to the CIA/OSC director, which is contrary to the DNI Directive. Right now OSC deals with a very small number of countries and has nothing to offer the …
CNN Editor’s note: Charles S. Faddis is a retired CIA operations officer and the former head of the CIA’s unit focused on fighting terrorism involving weapons of mass destruction. The author of a recently published book about the CIA, “Beyond Repair,” Faddis is also president of Orion Strategic Services, a Maryland-based consulting firm. Phi Beta …
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The future of OSINT is M4IS2. The future of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is Multinational, Multifunctional, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing & Sense-Making (M4IS2). The following, subject to the approval of Executive and Congressional leadership, are suggested hueristics (rules of thumb): Rule 1: All Open Source Information (OSIF) goes directly to the high side (multinational top secret) …
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Phi Beta Iota: This started as a short list for the various college and university engineering students that have dialed in, but as we got into it, it became more of a “situational awareness” inventory pulling together both technical “solutions” none of which have been integrated yet, and analytic “requirements” none of which have been …
SHORT URL: https://tinyurl.com/USDI-OSINT I have sought to help USDI on multiple occasions, and failed every time. Here is the 2009 effort, with the assistance of Dr. Joseph Markowitz, who also failed to get CIA to take OSINT seriously. PPT (6 Pages): 2009 DoD OSINT Leadership Briefing PPT (18 Pages): 2009 DoD OSINT Staff Briefing Complete …
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2001 NATO Training OSS & SACLANT NATO OSINT Handbook 2002 NATO Training SACLANT & OSS NATO OSINT Reader 2002 NATO Training SACLANT NATO Intelligence Exploitation of the Internet
Mats Bjore is unique in many ways. He is one of just two Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) pioneers recognized with Royal Awards for his accomplishment in creating the Swedish Military Long-Range Reconnaissance OSINT network. He has gone on to be a successful manager for knowledgement (McKinsey), and advisor to Factiva, and CEO and founder of …
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