The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Ada Bozeman, in Strategic Intelligence and Statecraft: Selected Essays, has written: (There is a need) to recognize that just as the essence of knowledge is not as split up into academic disciplines as it is in our academic universe, so can intelligence not be set apart from statecraft and society, or subdivided into elements…such as …
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NEW: Kindle Book Open Power ($2.99) OLD: Core Documents for Both Initiatives (Free) OLD: the foundation book The Open Source Everything Manifesto ROBERT STEELE: There are two schools of thought on effecting political (and hence economic and social) reform. One school is the school of love — this school emphasizes trust building and doing no …
A good search at a good time. You should immediately dismiss all who equate OSINT with online searching and all who do not understand the difference between Open Source Information (OSIF), Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), and Validated Open Source Intelligence (OSINT-V). At least 80% of the relevant information that is not secret is not online …
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US Naval War College Professor Joshua Rovner discusses the misuse of intelligence by the US Government particularly during the Iraq and Vietnam Wars. Produced by Segal, K. International Affairs Forum – Fixing Intelligence by the US Government Phi Beta Iota: A useful benchmark on where the edge of conventional wisdom is within the US government. …
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MatchApp: Next Generation Disaster Response App? Disaster response apps have multiplied in recent years. I’ve been reviewing the most promising ones and have found that many cater to professional responders and organizations. While empowering paid professionals is a must, there has been little focus on empowering the real first responders, i.e., the disaster-affected communities themselves. To …
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Bibliography PBI: Phi Beta Iota the Public Intelligence Blog
DOC (4 Pages): PERSONAL FOR SECRETARY OF STATE JOHN KERRY 15 February 2013 15 February 2013 PERSONAL FOR SECRETARY OF STATE JOHN KERRY Subject: Open Source Agency (OSA) 1. Threat to This Idea. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has fought against this idea, despite the fact that it originated within the CIA in 1969, and …
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