The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Somebody somewhere has to do this, and do it with over 90 nations, all NGOs, and global reach into all academic and private sector organizations desiring to share information and do multilateral sense-making. References: 2009 DoD OSINT Leadership and Staff Briefings 2009: Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Trilogy Search: The Future of OSINT [is M4IS2-Multinational] Search: Intelligence …
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Forthcoming in Strategic Studies Institute Mongraph on Human Intelligence (HUMINT) approved for publication by CIA and DoD. In the interim, can be seen at www.oss.net/HUMINT.
The CIA is proud to be on the front lines against al-Qaeda By Leon Panetta Sunday, January 10, 2010; A13 . . . . . . . We have found no consolation, however, in public commentary suggesting that those who gave their lives somehow brought it upon themselves because of “poor tradecraft.” That’s like saying …
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Spectacular search and most welcome. Below are two of the slides from the DoD OSINT Leadership Briefing. The colorful slides are all in the DoD OSINT Staff Briefing. See also the following collections relevant to getting DoD OSINT up to flank speed for policy support, acquisition support, and of course operational support beginning with Afghanistan, …
Phi Beta Iota: CIA, presumably with help from NGA, but not necessarily, has gotten much, much better at creating useful maps. This is truly delightful. They still don’t do tribes in the classical demographic-linguistic sense, but this is a huge step forward. Bravo. Truly gratifying to see this progress. What the world needs now is …
Jack Devine is the finest manager we have ever known, and the only one we know of who has never let a case officer miss a deadline without asking why. Former Acting Deputy Director of Operations while appointed as ADDO, former head of Latin America Division, he managed the Afghan Task Force whose outcomes are …
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Strengthening Our Nation’s Front Line Of Defense By Dennis C. Blair Friday, December 18, 2009 Phi Beta Iota: This is a seriously misleading article, our comments are provided after each paragraph. The legislation authorizing post-Sept. 11 intelligence reform — the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 — was signed into law five years …
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