Search Results for “HUMINT” – Page 87

2009/12/112013/12/02

Review: Open Source Intelligence Analysis: A Methodological Approach (Paperback)

Well-Intentioned, Disconnected, Over-Priced, Wrong Focus December 11, 2009 Selma Tekir While encouraging from a multinational point of view, this offering is so disconnected from the twenty one years of effort by thousands of other multinational pioneers, and so terribly over-priced (84 pages for $54? Get real) that we must caution potential purchasers.For a review of …

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2009/12/032009/12/03

Search: Intelligence Community Wheel

To the left is the traditional intelligence wheel, consisting of the 16 or so (there are other elements not listed) entities that in theory comprise the predominantly secret U.S. Intelligence Community. Below is the emergent intelligence wheel that harnesses all human minds in relation to all information all the time. We still need spies and …

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2009/11/252011/07/24

Search: The Future of OSINT [is M4IS2-Multinational]

The future of OSINT is M4IS2. The future of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is Multinational, Multifunctional, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing & Sense-Making (M4IS2). The following, subject to the approval of Executive and Congressional leadership, are suggested hueristics (rules of thumb): Rule 1: All Open Source Information (OSIF) goes directly to the high side (multinational top secret) …

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2009/11/212009/11/21

Review: Cash on Delivery–CIA Special Operations During the Secret War in Laos

The Real Deal–Gripping Details & Lessons Learned & Lost November 21, 2009 Thomas Leo Briggs I served with the author in the clandestine service, saw the galley of this book in its early form, and was delighted when I received a copy of the finished book in the mail. This is an absorbing detailed reference …

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2009/11/202009/11/20

Search: Intelligence Reform

This entire web site is about intelligence reform, at three levels; Level I: Unscrew the secret world, which spends $75B a year on the 10-20% it can steal (of which it only processes 1-6%, ultimately producing no more than 4% of what the President needs to know, and virtually nothing for anyone else. Level II: …

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2009/11/132009/11/13

Journal: Versailles on the Potomac Implodes…Again

Chuck Spinney sends…. The Afghan debacle is becoming a case study of how political debate in Versailles drips in a naturally self-organizing way to protect the dysfunctional status quo. As I indicated yesterday and in September, the fundamental flaw that set the stage for the current policy making fiasco was the unexamined analytical hole in …

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2009/11/10

Event: 20 Nov 09 NYC COUNTERINSURGENCY–AMERICA’S STRATEGIC BURDEN

Way cool–the usual suspects led by LtCol Nagle (now retired) unusually well-organized. Phi Beta Iota will cover this event and issue a trip report, but there is no substitute for being there if you can make it. We have started on a new article or chapter addressing a topic that was shut out of both …

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