2005 Steele to Hayden Asking for Naquin Cease & Desist

Doug Naquin, the senior Central Intelligence (CIA) officer responsible for Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and for the Open Source Center (OSC), the half-baked replacement for the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS), is a good person trapped in a bad system.  He not only does not know what he does not know, but is held in …

Reference: 2009 National Intelligence Strategy of the United States of America

One day we hope to see each State, Commonwealth, Tribe, County, and Municipality realize they need their own unique intelligence strategies tailored to their strategic, operational, tactical, and technical challenges.  The aggregate of all of those bottom-up strategies will, we speculate, turn the national intelligence on its head and get it back to basics.  Smart …

2005: Intelligence Reform – More Needs to Be Done

Commentary & Reply From Parameters,  Summer 2005, pp. 135-40. Intelligence Reform: More Needs to Be Done To the Editor: There are no simple answers when it comes to intelligence reform. The debate on this issue has suffered from decades of policy manipulation, congressional neglect, media ignorance, public inattention, and professional laziness. Senator Saxby Chambliss’s Parameters …

2003: Peacekeeping Intelligence Leadership Digest 1.0 (Full Text Online for Google Translate)

Peacekeeping Intelligence Leadership Digest 1.0[i] Robert David Steele Ben de Jong, Wies Platje, and Robert David Steele, PEACEKEEPING INTELLIGENCE: Emerging Concepts for the Future (OSS International Press, 2003), pp. 201-225. Original As Published Executive Summary The Brahimi Report, in combination with documented field experience from numerous UN peacekeeping missions, and the memoirs and published statements …