Subsequently published as “The Importance of Open Source Intelligence to the Military,” in Loch K. Johnson and James J. Wirtz (eds.), Strategic Intelligence: Windows into a Secret World (Cary, NC: Roxbury, 2004), pp. 112-119.
1997 Overview of Open Source Intelligence
Briefings & Lectures
1997 Kevin Kelly New Rules for the New Economy
Historic Contributions
Kevin Kelly, one of the “Who's Who” in Cultural Intelligence, was among the very first to understand, in a coherent fashion, the rise of neo-biological civilization and the intersection of humanity and technology in ways that would change everything. This article became a book.
1997 Creating a “Bare Bones” Capability for Open Source Support to Defense Intelligence Analysis
Intelligence (Government/Secret), White Papers
DOC: Creating a Bare Bones OSINT Capability
When Paul Wallner, on rotation from DIA to CIA, first attempted to establiksh an Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) concept of operations, this was the first paper delivered to him. At the same time, he gave OSS a fair shot at business with ten trial weekly reports spanning everything from medical to regions to logistics. What we did not discover until a few years ago is that a sergeant, then on reserve duty and billing himself as an OSINT expert, was throwing away our analytic summaries and loading the carefully sorted headines associated with each analytic summary into the DIA “bin” willy-nilly. Our attempt to show DIA that OSINT could be done as a low-cost out-sourced activity that did not require legions of contractors or “butts in seats,” died from this one specific pattern of misbehavior, a lack of intelligence and integrity on the part of one individual so shocking as to defy understuanding. Neither Wallner nor Steele knew about this until years later.
1997-1993 Presentations in Outline without Slides
Briefings & Lectures|
1997 |
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Presentation | Steele | DIA/JMITC: The Future of Intelligence |
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1995 |
US |
Presentation | Steele | CENDI & COSPO As Catalysts for National Security & Competitiveness |
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1994 |
US |
Presentation | Steele | Advantages of OSINT for National and Corporate Security |
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1993 |
US |
Presentation | Steele | OSS ’93: Reinventing National Intelligence—Advantages of OSINT |
1997 Sutton (US) The Challenge of Global Coverage
Director of National Intelligence et al (IC), Historic Contributions
Above links to the slides (over 100) as provided to then DCI George Tenet. Click on the icon below for the full text of the report that was immediately locked up “never to be spoken of again.”
