The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
ODNI DESCRIBES EMERGING TOOLS FOR DATA FUSION, ANALYSIS Several intelligence community initiatives to develop improved tools for data search, analysis and fusion were described in the latest report to Congress (pdf) from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on data mining. A new program called DataSphere is intended “to aid in the discovery …
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osint vs humint Machine search–ugly. The answer: 1. Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is a sub-discipline of all of the traditional disciplines, as well as a discipline in its own right, but it is closest to Human Intelligence (HUMINT) and should be managed concurrently with HUMINT, which has fifteen slices, only four of which are classified. …
According to a 16 February piece in the New York Times by Mark Lander, “President Obama ordered his advisers last August to produce a secret report on unrest in the Arab world, which concluded that without sweeping political changes, countries from Bahrain to Yemen were ripe for popular revolt, administration officials said Wednesday.” Participants included …
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From my friends at Intelligence Online…. Used extensively by protesters in Egypt and Tunisia, Facebook and other social networking websites contain a wealth of useful intelligence. However, knowing how to exploit that information is another matter. During a hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on February 4, Senator Dianne Feinstein complained to Stephanie …
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You are always better off doing multiple searches. Your search yields useful but indirect material. national open source center cospo cospo open source center 1. There is nothing “national” about the open source center. It is a little very expensive cesspool that puts on airs and lies to every potential client it can reach while …
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Sooner than you thought? I would also suggest that Karzai is on shaky ground unless he figures out a way to get out of his Parliament crisis…..the Pashtu do not go for technology the way the Hazara and Tajiks do…… Waves of Unrest Spread to Yemen, Shaking a Region Thousands of protesters on Thursday took …
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CIA “OPEN SOURCE WORKS” ON PAKISTANI LEADERSHIP “A review of the Pakistani media during October 2010 indicates that there is less talk of imminent political change.” That is the rather pedestrian conclusion of a brief report (pdf) that was prepared last November by “Open Source Works,” a previously unknown initiative of the CIA Directorate of …
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