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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, 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.]

Sir, kindly guide on – 1- How can OSINT ops be successively conducted on closed information states like China or North Korea? (Attaching a file I had downloaded) 2- Is the information that China generally makes public through its stare-run agencies reliable and sufficient? 3- Is there any research paper or unclassified information over the …

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Sir, I have noticed one particular characteristic of OSINT which is that any OSINT process involves two actions, namely, intelligence collection and then intelligence analysis. I have observed that OSINT collection process is technical and requires thorough understanding of different technologies, softwares and methodologies while intelligence analysis depends more upon the analyst’s judgment. This brings …

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