The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
This is the slide that grabbed General Peter Schoomaker, USA (Ret), the ONLY Army flag officer that has ever understood OSINT in detail. General Schoomaker’s intelligence and integrity are the sole reason the U.S. Government has today exactly ONE serious OSINT capability as represented by J-23 at the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM). Everything else …
Continue reading “Graphic: OSINT Support to Four Levels of Analysis”
This is the original graphic that captured Robert Steele’s vision for leveraging Open Source Information (OSIF) and Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) to dramatically improve the effectiveness of the classified disciplines and consequently the reach and insight of the all-source analysts.
Slide: HUMINT Circles 2.0 Citation: Robert David STEELE Vivas, “Graphic: Nine HUMINT/OSINT Circles,” Phi Beta Iota the Public Intelligence Blog, 17 December 2012 This corrects the earlier oversight of not integrating education & training (our first defense and our most reliable eyes and ears are our own people), along with research & development, must be …
UPDATED 27 Dec 2012. Citation: Robert David Steele, “Graphic: Integrated HUMINT/OSINT Management for Defense & Service Strategy & Priorities, Policies, Acquisition, & Operations,” Phi Beta Iota the Public Intelligence Blog, 27 December 2012 Slide: HUMINT Circles 2.0 See Also:
Economic and Social Threats, including 95% 01 Poverty 99% 02 Infectious Disease 95% 03 Environmental Degradation (includes Climate Change) 90% 04 Inter-State Conflict 75% Internal-Conflict, including 90% 05 Civil War 80% 06 Genocide 95% 07 Other Large-Scale Atrocities 95% 08 Proliferation of nuclear, radiological, chemical, and biological weapons (many would add small arms as well) …
Continue reading “Graphic: UN 6 OSINT Relevance to UN Ten High-Level Threats”
This has been updated from an earlier DIA/DH version created by Robert Steele, and is in both the DoD OSINT Staff Briefing and the new Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) monograph on Human Intelligence (HUMINT): All Humans, All Minds, All the Time. See Also: Search: humint spectrum full spectrum
From where we sit, outside the wire, we went wrong at multiple levels, all matters of balance and perspective: 1. Favoring secrecy over openness 2. Favoring technologies constant stare (mostly unprocessed) over engaged human brains with eyes on 3. Demanding unilateral collection, processing, and analysis instead of a multinational foundation
