Private Enterprise Intelligence: Its Potential Contribution to National SecurityROBERT DAVID STEELE
Intelligence and National Security (October 1995), pp. 212-228
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1995 Simmons (US) Open Source Intelligence: An Examination of Its Exploitation in the Defense Intelligence Community
Hill Letters & Testimony, Historic Contributions, History of Opposition, White Papers
GOLDEN CANDLE AWARD: CONGRESSMAN ROB SIMMONS (R-CT-02)
IOP '06. To Congressman Rob Simmons (R-CT-02), who, as a pioneer in the 1990’s, won his first Golden Candle as a Lieutenant Colonel commanding an open source unit, later officially recognized as the “Best Small Unit in the US Army Reserve. As a Congressman, elected in 2000, he has been diligent and faithful to the Republic in pressing for open source intelligence (OSINT) reform across both the defense and the homeland security communities. There is no more influential champion for public intelligence and open source information exploitation serving the U.S. Government today.
Below is the paper Rob Simmons, as gentle and intelligent a Member as we have ever encountered, wrote in 1995 as a Major in the Post Graduate Intelligence Program.
Los Alamos National Laboratory: Guidelines for the Implementation of an Open Source Information System
Historic Contributions, OSINT Generic
1995 House Appropriations Committee Surveys Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)
History of Opposition, Legislation, Methods & Process, PolicyIn 1995 the House Appropriations Committee (HAC) took and interest in Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), and c arried out a survey that to the best of our knowledge, was blocked, side-stepped, and generally not respected by the U.S. Intelligence Community generally and the Department of Defense (DoD) specifically.
Click on the below JPEG to read two pages summarizing what OSS CEO said to them.
Reference: Error Management in US Intelligence (1995)
Director of National Intelligence et al (IC), Historic Contributions
One of the seminal works by Andrew Shepard. Fifteen years from speaking to being heard (barely).
1996 GIQ 13/2 Creating a Smart Nation: Strategy, Policy, Intelligence, and Information
Articles & Chapters, Best Practices in Management, Change & Innovation, Complexity & Resilience, Consciousness & Social IQ, Decision-Making & Decision-Support, Democracy, Education (General), Education (Universities), Environment (Solutions), Intelligence (Collective & Quantum), Intelligence (Commercial), Intelligence (Government/Secret), Intelligence (Public), Intelligence (Wealth of Networks)
“SPECIAL FEATURE: Creating a Smart Nation–Strategy, Policy, Intelligence, and Information,” pp. 159-173
1995 Open Sources and the Virtual Intelligence Community (with MC&G Emphasis)
Briefings & Lectures
