The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
China has been mining Open Source Info of its major adversaries, namely, the US, India and the Europe. The latest Zhenhua leaks confirm this. Very little information is available over the methodology it adopts. Please guide on how China does it? China, like Japan, is good at collection and very poor at processing and sense-making. …
Long over-due but not as easy to fix as it might sound. Purge: Spec-Ops Command Now Equal to Other Military Branches & Reports Directly to Trump’s SecDef RELATED: Robert Steele: Freeing SOF from Conventional Forces And Empowering Them with D3C and OSINT
Purge: Spec-Ops Command Now Equal to Other Military Branches & Reports Directly to Trump’s SecDef USDI has the right idea, but it is going to be a real challenge to free SOF not just from the conventional forces, but from the double-burden of all the embedded conventional uniformed and civilian “leaders” combined with all the …
CIA launches first federal lab The Central Intelligence Agency announced Monday the launch of its first-ever federal lab, a new internal organization that will allow its officers to obtain patents and licenses for intellectual property they create while working at the agency. CIA is so lame. I explain below.
Improved Access to Open Source Intelligence Urged Congress should require the Director of National Intelligence to make open source intelligence more widely available, the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission recommended in its latest annual report. Last June, the former OpenSource.gov web portal was “decommissioned.” Its contents were transferred to classified or restricted networks that are mostly …
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Wrapping Intelligence Around the Open Source Whirlwind In the internet age, the digital breadcrumbs humans leave in their wake can be harnessed – the geotag on a tweeted photo, or the time stamps on a YouTube video upload. This open source, publicly available material, once scorned by the secret-stealers of the intelligence community, is rising …
