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2012/12/102012/12/11

Steven Aftergood: Senate Slams Door on Defense Clandestine Service — Robert Steele Comments + DoD Clandestine RECAP

Updated 11 Dec 2012 to add Graphic: Intelligence Requirements, Collection, Evaluation, and Capabilities Building Senate Puts Brakes on Defense Clandestine Service The Senate moved last week to restrain the rapid growth of the Defense Clandestine Service, the Pentagon’s human intelligence operation. Under a provision of the FY2013 defense authorization act that was approved on December …

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2012/12/092016/03/26

2012 USA Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Scorecard 1.1

Document: USA HUMINT 1.1 This is tentative (new draft) pending additional feed-back from a handful of still-engaged colleagues. It assumes CIA being dead in the water, reliant on foreign liaison and legal traveler debriefings for 90% of its “clandestine” Human Intelligence (HUMINT), and its OSC being totally out of touch with 80% or more of the …

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2012/12/062012/12/06

Richard Wright: Proposal for an Open Source Agency

Document (5 Pages): Richard Wright Proposal for an Open Source Agency Proposal for an Open Source Agency Executive Summary This proposal argues that the strategic intelligence needs of U.S. Policy Makers, including the President and National Security Council, can best be met by establishing an independent Open Source Intelligence Agency (OSA) as recommended by the …

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2012/12/062012/12/06

Marcus Aurelius: Max Boot on Better Spies, Not More

Better Spies, Not More By Max Boot Los Angeles Times, December 6, 2012, Pg. 19 The Defense Intelligence Agency is planning to dramatically expand the ranks of its covert “collectors” — a.k.a. case officers or, more popularly, spies. It has 500 or so and hopes to double that number. There is nothing inherently wrong with …

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2012/12/052014/01/15

2007 Open Source Intelligence (Strategic) 2.0

Now that everyone is paying attention, this is being posted in full text online in support of a larger M4IS2 / OSE dialog. Document: Strategic OSINT (Chapter 6 in Strataegic Intelligence Vol 2) 10 MB Links added below throughout, updated where appropriate. See Also: 21st Century Intelligence Core References 2.0 Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Robert …

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2012/12/022012/12/03

Mini-Me: DIA Sending Hundreds More Spies Overseas – Long Phi Beta Iota Editorial + Meta-RECAP 1.1

Huh? DIA sending hundreds more spies overseas By Greg Miller Washington Post, Saturday, December 1, 2012 The Pentagon will send hundreds of additional spies overseas as part of an ambitious plan to assemble an espionage network that rivals the CIA in size, U.S. officials said. The project is aimed at transforming the Defense Intelligence Agency, which …

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2012/12/012014/01/01

Reference (2012): Expectations of Intelligence in the Information Age, Review by Steele, Wright, Anon & New Link 3.0

UPDATE: 1 January 2013 from Spanish Dancer: What is most striking to me, and to a few others I have spoken to recently, is the SECDEF quote early in the paper. If we follow its premise it puts anyone who opposes our projection of power in the cross hairs. It is this doctrinal fluff that …

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