The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Ladies and Gentlemen: Attached is somewhat dated; you may or may not have seen. But the basic message almost certainly remains valid. For LTG Hughes’ part, he was certainly part of the problem. At the time he retired out of DIA, 15 months or so before 9/11, one of the key operational support elements of …
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This has been updated from an earlier DIA/DH version created by Robert Steele, and is in both the DoD OSINT Staff Briefing and the new Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) monograph on Human Intelligence (HUMINT): All Humans, All Minds, All the Time. See Also: Search: humint spectrum full spectrum
This did not yield what it should have when we tested it. Here is what you might find helpful. Graphic: Human Intelligence (HUMINT) J-2 Central Note the emphasis on treating Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) as an extension of Human Intelligence (HUMINT) rather than as it is now treated by DoD and the US IC, as …
Phi Beta Iota: Below are two comments. Original source comment, a CIA-trained SOF retired O-6: Article is loaded with some phrases and abbreviations that even I, who normally speaks that sort of thing with native fluency, had some problems with. Seems to me that the military has taken a tough job, particularly in a combat …
In 1986 we invented “reverse hits” in a failed attempt to get the clandestine service to allow electronic searches of its databases. In a related experience we discovered that fewer than 10 percent of the names had been properly indexed because the clerks in the basement were lazy and ignored “INDEX ALL NAMES.” The Human …
This is a variation of the Human Intelligence (HUMINT) graphic greated in Sweden, one that shows the J-2 for a region, in this case AFRICOM, being central to the provision of leadership across all of the aspects of HUMINT represented within DoD and the rest of government, all of them largely “out of control” right …
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Charles Hampden-Turner’s book RADICAL MAN: The Process of Psycho-Social Development, remains one of the most important works with respect to making the most of our one inexhausible resource, the human brain. Below are covers of the book in both editions, with links to the Amazon page for each
