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 …

Graphic: Language Basics

The U.S. Government is inept in all of these most basic languages.  There are 183 that really matter, and close to 5,000 distinct languages and dialect where we should at least have multinational task forces fully engaged in harvesting historical and cultural wisdom while delivering modern knowledge.