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2002 Hardee (US) Growing an Open Source Program for the U.S. Special Operations Command and the Global War on Terrorism

The US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) has always taken Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) more seriously than the rest of the government, and after General Peter Schoomaker, then Commander-in-Chief, USSOCOM, gave the order in 1997, to establish a separate branch in the Joint Intelligence Center (JIC) and integrate OSINT into all Special Operaitons Forces (SOF) schoolhouses, …

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2002 Global Futures Partnership–Vision of Lasting Value

The Global Futures Partnership (GFP) is a strategic “think and do tank” that undertakes unclassified global outreach for CIA and other Intelligence Community elements on the most important issues facing the intelligence community today and in coming years. It conceptualizes and implements interdisciplinary and multi-organizational projects on key intelligence issues with leading thinkers from academia, …

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2002: New Rules for the New Craft of Intelligence (Full Text Online for Google Translate)

New Rules for the New Craft of Intelligence The New Craft of Intelligence: Personal, Public, & Political—Chapter 15 Robert David Steele (OSS International Press, 2002) The new craft of intelligence is the operational manifestation of the American way of “netwar,” and can provide a decisive asymmetric advantage from the neighborhood level to the national level, …

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