Answers on OSINT for India 28 – What OSINT is NOT!

Sir: In my paper, I am including ‘What OSINT is not’. Imagine that you are telling a stubbornly dedicated SIGINT operator about OSINT. The operator believes OSINT to be some simple net surfing used for gaining cursory information on anything. Or he relates OSINT to needle-in-haystack kind of discipline where discoveries are made by chance. …

Review: In Search of Gold – Recovery of Yamashita”s Gold [in the Philippines]

5 Star – Riveting First Person Account I know the author personally, and was introduced to him by Sterling Seagrave (RIP), whom I also knew personally. Sterling was for me the top chronicler of Asian history both sordid and splendid. One of his books (linked below) that comes with three CDs of maps, photos, and …

Answers on OSINT for India 3 – OSINT & Denied Areas

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 …

Review: Surprise, Ill, Vanish – The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins

3 Star Not Worth Reading In the past I might have given this book 4 stars despite its flaws, but my standards have  gone up (I demand holistic analytics and true cost economics now for 5 stars) and the author makes too many mistakes in areas where I have superior knowledge. Also new is the …