The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
GOLDEN CANDLE AWARD: Dr. Tore Bjorgo, Norway OSS ’04: To Dr. Tore Bjorgo, Senior Research Fellow of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), for his leadership of research on terrorism and international crime. His authorship/editorship of ten books in the field represents the best combination of open sources, scholarship, and operationally-useful intelligence. Below is …
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Very frew “all-source” intelligence analysts in the US secret world impress us, in part because they will never actually be “all-source” until we get a grip on Open Source Intelligence (OSINT); in part because the secret world refuses to engage with 95% of the real-world and therefore will always lack of the historical and cultural …
This report has two bottom-lines, neither of which has been operatiionalized despite lip-service to making peace operations co-equal to war operations: 1. Non-Governmental Organizations are the majority players now 2. Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is the common language
GOLDEN CANDLE AWARD: Mr. Paul van Tongeren OSS ’04: To Mr. Paul van Tongeren, leader, educator, advocate, and pioneer in the prevention and resolution of conflict. As Executive Director of the European Centre for Conflict Prevention, his is a critical voice in facilitating peace through hinter-disciplinary study, cross-cultural communication, and the creation of Open Source …
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Click here for briefing with notes: Information Peacekeeping 1.1-1 Following the Netherlands Intelligence Studies Association (NISA) first conference on Peacekeeping Intelligence, out of which came the book, PEACEKEEPING INTELLIGENCE: Emerging Concepts for the Future, there was a conference in Canada that produced a book that is both overpriced and overly academic. The third conference, in …
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This bill was NOT introduced, it was a variation of a much simpler bill created by Congressman Rob Simmons’ staff. A version went into the book THE SMART NATION ACT: Public Intelligence in the Public Interest that enjoys a Foreword from Congressman Simmons, and there is today a 2009 version of the Act that has …
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Fairly straight-forward. All it requires is integrity, intelligence, and imagination. See also: Definitions: M4IS2 (Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing & Sense-Making Reference: World Brain Institute & Global Game Search: The Future of OSINT [is M4IS2-Multinational] Search: Multinational Engagement (Intelligence) Search: InfoOps (Information Operations (IO)) Search: OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) 1988-2009 OSINT-M4IS2 TECHINT Chronology
