E3i: Ethics, Ecology, Evolution, and Intelligence
Robert David Steele
Whole Earth Review (Fall 1992), pp. 74-79.
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The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
E3i: Ethics, Ecology, Evolution, and Intelligence
Robert David Steele
Whole Earth Review (Fall 1992), pp. 74-79.
Full Text Online for Ease of Automated Translation
This may be cited as author, title, Marine Corps University Working Paper, 1992, drawn from the author's original thesis on revolution done for Lehigh University in 1976.
The below memorandum is very professional and a tangible example of the diligence that Paul Wallner, on detail from DIA to run the Community Open Source Program Office (COSPO) in its first incarnation, brought to the job. Paul Wallner coined the term “source of first resort,” and he did everything in his power to get OSINT right when we were able to force the matter to the high table. That he failed is not a reflection on him, as much as it is on the history of opposition, both passive aggressive and blatantly treasonous, that has characterized the “institutional” responses to this transofrmative “full spectrum” discipline.
Tom Pedtke was the single most important practitioner during the 1992 surge when we thought we had a chance to get it right. Coming out of the National Air Intelligence Center (NAIC) in Cleveland, Ohio, he had an appreciation for “full spectrum” Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) such as would never be achieved by those steeped in the culture of foreign broadcast monitoring, and he understood research and citation analysis and all the other tricks of the OSINT trade that simply do not come into play when you are monitoring fixed schedule broadcasts. Following in the tradition of National Intelligence Officer for Science & Technology (NIO/S&T) Jan Herring who tried all of this in the 1970's, Tom Pedtke had all of the knowledge and the best of intentions. Like Paul Wallner, he simply could not move the beast from within.