2006 INFORMATION OPERATIONS: All Information, All Languages, All the Time

I have learned a great deal from colleagues at the U.S. Special Operations Command.  Their most memorable lesson is captured in the following quotation from a person who in my mind represents the very best intellect and ethics that command has to offer: “Secret intelligence is 10% of all-source intelligence, and all-source intelligence is 10% …

Testimony: White Paper for DCI John Negoponte on Leveraging OSINT to Enhance CIA/IC Mission Success

ROBERT STEELE: A large company paid me to write this in 2004, ostensibly as a white paper to be delivered to then newly-appointed DNI John Negoponte. In fairness to that company, even if they were honest on this point and not just buying my playbook, the prime contract they won with the Open Source Center …

2004 21st Century Intelligence: A History from the Future

Robert David STEELE Vivas 4 Jun 04 Keynote to International Intelligence History Association (Graz, Austria) FINAL 1.6 dated 30 May 2004 RTF 9 Pages: Steele IIHA Keynote 21st Century Intelligence FINAL RTF 21st Century Intelligence: A History from the Future Robert David STEELE Vivas Let me begin by paying tribute to two historians, five realists, …