Review: First In–An Insider’s Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan
4.0 out of 5 stars Superb First Person Account, Lacks Context & Avoids History, June 13, 2005
4.0 out of 5 stars Superb First Person Account, Lacks Context & Avoids History, June 13, 2005
5.0 out of 5 stars Not Enough on Spies, Plenty on State-Level Corruption and FBI Idiocy, January 27, 2005
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 …
4.0 out of 5 stars Most Scholarly Documentation of Bush-Blair Deceit, February 13, 2004
4.0 out of 5 stars LOTS of white space, good detail, funny and sad, August 30, 2003
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, …
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, Relevant Today, OpIntel Thrills, Deep Insights, September 30, 2001