The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Sir, Sometimes I feel as if information is being released to the public in very clever ways, and other times I feel as if information is being manipulated or hidden in ways I may not be able to detect. Do you have any thoughts on disinformation and how to deal with disinformation?
Sir, You have published your appraisal of the percentage value and utility of OSINT for each of the ten high-level threats to humanity. Can you post the graphic and make additional comments on the relative value of OSINT for each of the twelve core national policies that you identified several years ago? Our government professionals …
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Sir, I have made the following diagram. Please comment. This is a draft and not a final pic, as will be the case with most of what I have been sending and will send in the future. I am also attaching the link for a CIA OSC Okhinawa report that I had found online. Kindly …
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SIr, 1-Is there any comprehensive OSINT report publicly available which may help to know what the sources are? 2- How can OSINT help in generating high-grade intelligence?
Sir, 1- OSINT definitely relates to HUMINT to the extent that it involves an analyst’s presence of mind. Primary data on OSINT (govt docs) are old and hardly any attention has been paid to cybersecurity, safer communications. Also, Open Source Info has increased tremendously over the years calling ICT engineers to research and produce more …
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Sir please explain the picture.
Sir, This link (http://www.oss.net/dynamaster/file_archive/040320/fb893cded51d5ff6145f06c39a3d5094/OSS1997-02-33.pdf) is not working. [Steele, Robert. “Open Source Intelligence: What Is It? Why Is It Important to the Military?,” in Loch K. Johnson and James J. Wirtz (eds.), Strategic Intelligence: Windows into a Secret World, NC: Roxbury, 2004, pp. 112-119.]
