1. Multinational Intelligence Can CENTCOM Lead the Way
Multinational Intelligence Can CENTCOM Lead the Way? Reflections on OSINT & the Coalition
Robert David STEELE Vivas
Presentation to the Coalition Coordination Center
27 January 2006
A copy of these slides are at the Modern Information Operations Portal Page at
The U.S. Government is on a path to spend up to $2 billion a year on Open Source Intelligence or OSINT.
The purpose of this briefing is to provide a very fast overview of where OSINT is today, and to suggest that a new Multinational Information Operations Center (MIOC) here at CENTCOM could energize the coalition and establish new powerful means of sharing information across all languages and borders.
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2. About the Speaker 30 years overseas USMC 0302/0202/9676
2000
30 years overseas
USMC 0302/0202/9676
6 clandestine tours
Founder USMC Intel Ctr
OSINT pioneer since 1988
Helped 19 governments by invitation in home country
Trained 7,500 from 40 countries since 1992
#1 Amazon non-fiction reviewer
Author 3 core books on IO/Intel
Believe we all need/can use a Multinational Information Operations Center (MIOC) with two-way reach-back
2002
Most of my life has been spent overseas, as the son of an oilman, including ten coups d’etat in Viet-Nam, then as an infantry officer and as a clandestine case officer.
My transformative experience occurred when I created the Marine Corps Intelligence Command, and discovered in 1988 that 80% of what we need to know to do policy, acquisition, operations, and logistics intelligence is not secret, not online, not in English, and not known to anyone in the NCA.
2006
Editor
2004
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3. Global Intelligence Failure Breakdown in Collection and Understanding
Digital
Analog
Oral/Unpublished
English
Language
Foreign
Languages*
*33 predominant languages, over 3,000 distinct languages, and twelve critical Arabic dialects we do not do well at all.
NSA
FBIS
UN/STATE
Cascading Deficiencies:
1) Don’t even try to access most information
2) Can’t process hard-copy into digital
3) Can’t translate most of what we collect
CIA/DO
NRO
This is a depiction of how little we collect in the foreign affairs arena. One study of three countries suggests that we collect less than 10% of what can be known, in part because the only people with money to buy local knowledge are the spies, and they insist on treason as a condition for employment. We are simply not serious about open sources of information, nor about information in foreign languages. To find 396 terrorist, insurgent, and opposition web sites, as OSS and its partners did in 60 days for under $60,000, requires the ability to work in 29 languages including Catelan, Gaelic, Kurdish, Farsi, Urdu, and Pashto. Today we work in 33 languages and do the rest on short notice.
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4. Global Processing Failure Breakdown in Exploitation, Dissemination
50%
Less Costly
More Satisfying
SIGINT
OSINT 0%
HUMINT
IMINT
MASINT
STATE
Does Not Exist
It gets worse. This is an official CIA depiction, from a study done in the late 1990’s, as to the relative cost and satisfaction derived from each collection discipline.
What is most noteworthy--and a major reason why we failed to “connect the dots” and prevent 9-11, is that there is no single place where it all comes together in digital form, with time and geospatial tags, such that we can automatically see patterns and detect anomalies.
Summing up: we collect less than 20% of what we should, process less than 10% of what we collect, with the result that Washington is operating, at best, on 2% of the relevant and available foreign affairs information.
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5. OPEN SOURCE INTELLIGENCE
This is a common-sense contrast we can exploit.
ALL-SOURCE ANALYSIS
HUMINT
SIGINT
IMINT
MASINT
95% of cost
20% of value
5% of cost
80% of value
OSINT combines the proven process of intelligence with global multi-lingual sources, generally from commercial vendors that add value. It is an essential foundation for all-source intelligence collection and all-source intelligence analysis.
OSINT could be, but is not, the foundation for comprehensive all-source intelligence collection and all-source intelligence analysis.
I have spent the last 18 years attempting to help all legitimate governments improve in this area.
OPEN SOURCE INTELLIGENCE
OPEN SOURCE INFORMATION
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6. Definitions Open Source Data Open Source Information
Open Source Intelligence
Validated Open Source Intelligence
Only the in-house analyst can do this.
Open Source Intelligence is not well understood by all-source intelligence analysts.
We must distinguish between data—the raw sources in many languages and mediums—information that collates data for generic audiences—and intelligence, which is tailored to the needs of a specific decision-maker. Intelligence is about supporting decisions, not about secret sources.
OSINT should be done by others in support of the all-source analyst, just as HUMINT, IMINT, SIGINT, and MASINT have a cast of thousands engaged in collection, processing, and first echelon disciplinary analysis.
OSINT is not something the classified intelligence community should control—it must be equally responsive to diplomats, policymakers, operators, and logisticians—as well as all-source intelligence analysts.
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7. What OSINT Is Not...
“…nothing more than a collection of news clippings”.
“…the Internet.”
“…a substitute for spies and satellites.”
There are still some common misconceptions about OSINT among the most senior diplomats and other policymakers and operators.
Here you see what OSINT is not.
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8. Open Sources in 33+ Languages
Commercial Online
Books & Journals
Conferences & Dissertations
Maps & Commercial Imagery
Internet
Telephone Surveys
Gray Literature
Complex Human & IT Services
OSINT Universe
It is important to emphasize the paucity of those endeavors that are limited to English or the main European languages. If one cannot work in 33+ languages on a 24/7 basis—that is, in near-real-time, one is not serious.
Print and broadcast media are actually the smallest part of the open source universe. Untapped perceptions, oral histories, informal exchanges, limited edition local publications, pre-prints, and geospatial as well as imagery information of all kinds—including photos from cells phones with geospatial positioning system information—this is the larger universe.
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9. World War III Players Nation-States Private Sector Bacteria Citizens
Gangs
Nation states are only ten percent of the threat. More threatening are private sector organizations that destroy people’s life savings or export their jobs, or that implant immoral capitalism abroad, enriching elites and disenfranchising all others; ethnic criminal gangs such as we see coming out of Russia, China, Vietnam, Korea, Japan, and Colombia; and bacteria.
Finally, we have Mother Earth, on the verge of collapse. The Earth is tired of our talk, wants peace, an end to promises, and perhaps an end to us. [Philip Levine, 1979]
Mother Earth
Water-Air-Green
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10. Conflict Facts for 2002 23 LIC+, 79 LIC-, 175 VPC
Has actually gotten better, the UN, although corrupt, is working!
This is the reality that we are not ready to deal with as we are now structured and funded.
We have a world that is largely unstable and at war with itself.
In 2002 there were 23 conflicts killing over 1000 people a year, 79 killing under 1000 a year, and 175 violent political conflicts internal to a specific country.
Neither the CIA nor the media articulate this reality to our public. Google could, if it would ramp up its visualization and its data mining on substance rather than just clicks.
Pol Terror Level 3
Imprisonment, executions
Pol Terror Level 4
Large numbers, torture
Pol Terror Level 5
Entire public, no limits
Source: PIOOM (NL), data with permission © 2002 A. Jongman
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11. 18 Genocide Campaigns On-Going Today
Ethnic Fault Lines 2000
18 Genocide Campaigns On-Going Today
It gets worse. Everyone knows about the Holocaust against those of the Jewish faith during World War II.
What most people do not realize is that there have been over 70 genocides in history, and that there are 18 genocides taking place today as we gather here to consider national security and the future of America.
How we understand and deal with genocide today is a litmus test of our national competence. The people is unaware of this reality—we can make it easy for them to see.
Source: Dr. Greg Stanton
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12. Water & War
Arid
Semi-Arid
Water Pollution 1 2 3 4 5 6
Hyper-Arid
These ethnic conflicts tend to coincide with conditions of severe deprivation.
Note the red line---some of the worst water scarcity and some of the worst ethnic conflicts are along the Russian borders with both the Islamic states of Central Asia, and the Chinese state…and of course between Israel and Palestine.
Water scarcity is a national security threat that does not receive enough attention. It has troubling potential here at home.
Sub-Humid
Source: The State of the World Atlas (1997), chart 54, 53
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13. Local Threats to Global Survival
Complex Emergencies
32 Countries
Refugees/Displaced
66 Countries
Food Security
33 Countries
Child Soldiers
41 Countries
Modern Plagues*
59 Countries & Rising
Water Scarcity &
Contaminated Water**
Ethnic Conflict 18 Genocides Today**
Resource Wars, Energy Waste & Pollution**
Corruption Common
80 Countries
Censorship Very High
62 Countries
Instability spawns migrations, criminal activity, and disease as well as terrorism.
There are 20 or so complex emergencies involving over 32 countries that are considered to be “failed states.” We have millions of refugees, millions of starving people, millions of people subject to plagues and epidemics.
You know these challenges well—but until we educate America, and our citizens in turn demand action from Congress and the Executive, these threats to our Nation will continue to multiply and interact.
*State of the World Atlas (1997), ** Marq de Villier (Water), John Heidenrich and Greg Stanton (Genocide), Michael Klare et al (Resources), all others from PIOOM Map 2002
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14. OSINT Matters I
"By `intelligence' we mean every sort of information about the enemy and his country--the basis, in short, of our own plans and operations."
Clausewitz, On War, 1832
Emphasis Added.
You get no points for just knowing
secrets when they are less than 2%
of what you need to know.
The U.S. Government spends at least $50 billion a year on the 5% of the information it can steal. It spends less than $500M on the other 95%.
Clausewitz understood that we must focus on all sources, not only secret sources.
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15. OSINT Matters II What’s on the other side of the hill? ®
There are many different ways to look to the other side of the hill, and most of them are not secret.
Knowing what it looked like historically, or through Google Earth today, can be “good enough.”
All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavor to find out what you don’t know by what you do; that’s what I called “guessing what was at the other side of the hill”.
Duke of Wellington
quoted in John Wilson Croker, The Croker Papers (1884)
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16. This is what got General Schoomaker’s attention.
OSINT Matters III
This is what got General Schoomaker’s attention.
Strategic Planning
Operational Coordination
Tactical Employment
Acquisition
Design
History
Context
Current Awareness
Key Personalities/Motivators
Imagery & Image Maps
Translation Support
Strategic Generalizations
Critical Technologies
This is the slide that got General Schoomaker, then CINCSOC, to fund OSINT. Today, for less than $1M a year, the OSINT section at SOCOM answers 40% of all GWOT EEI.
CIA has experienced similar results—40% of their finished production comes from OSINT at a cost of less than one half of one percent of the total National Foreign Intelligence Program.
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17. Baseball Analogy Harnessing the Power of the Crowd
OSINT
HUMINT
SIGINT
IMINT
MASINT
Our team likes analogies. Here’s mine. If the information universe is a baseball game, then we can liken the governments to the team, and the rest of the world to the crowd. The governments’ traditional tools for winning the information game are the secret disciplines. HUMINT tries to recruit a player to predict where the ball will go, and send someone to catch it—or not. SIGINT plants a listening device in the dug-out, trying to overhear plans and intentions. IMINT takes an overhead photo of the field every three days and tries to call the game that way. MASINT sniffs for the ball, and the gloves. OSINT changes the rules—we give everyone in the audience a glove, and any catch by a member of the crowd is an out. That’s how we handle the information explosion—everyone gets to play, and they know we will pay cash or kind when they send us the ball they caught. It is a universal unstructured winning order of battle, a Google kind of approach.
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18. Seven Views of Reality Not listening, and not sharing, costs us.
Military
Law Enforcement
Business
Academic
National
NGO &
Media
Religions
& Clans
With leadership, we can change how we make a difference, leveraging all seven tribes.
Journalists, academics, business professionals, non-governmental organizations—they are all acting now in isolation, based on limited information. We can offer them all a voluntary framework for collaboration in the sharing of legal and ethical information.
I have a vision of each government creating a framework to harness what all seven of its tribes know, and then helping create a World Brain.
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19. New Craft of Intelligence
Lessons of History II
Global Coverage
III
National Intelligence IV
Spies & Secrecy
China, Islam, Ethnic, Etc.
Cost-Sharing with Others--
Shared Early Warning
Narrowly focused!
Harness distributed intelligence of Nation
My second book, THE NEW CRAFT OF INTELLIGENCE: Personal, Public, & Political, lays out the future of intelligence as I believe the citizen-taxpayer must insist it be.
Specifically, we can no longer afford to ignore either history or the historical statements of other players in their own languages; we must devise a means of sharing the burden of monitoring all open sources in all languages all the time; we must harness the considerable knowledge we have in our private sector; and we must focus our spies on the hard stuff.
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20. Sources All information, all languages, all the time
Going back 200 years, digitizing hardcopy
185 languages, 33 of them “core”
12 relevant dialects of Arabic
Must follow television, radio, audio, street
80% of this, at least, is overlooked by IC
Cannot be made sense of by single individual
We must find a multinational integrated approach
My next book, coming out in February, focuses on information operations. Here at CENTCOM the leadership and staff understand that we cannot do all sources in all languages all the time unless we have a strong coalition.
We must find a new multinational integrated approach.
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21. A Revolution is Underway
Peer-to-Peer Distributed Ubiquitous Collective Intelligence Now Possible
TIME IMPACT SHORT
TIME IMPACT LONG
MULTI-CULTURAL & TRANS-NATIONAL EQUITIES
SINGLE-CULTURE SINGLE-ORGANIZATION EQUITIES
LEADERS DECIDE
PEOPLE DECIDE
TOP-DOWN
COMMAND & CONTROL
SECRET
SOURCES & METHODS
BOTTOM-UP
INFORMATION-SHARING
OPEN
OBVIOUS DETAIL
OBSCURE DETAIL
OLD
NEW
The knowledge-action paradigm is changing, and all over the world, informed publics are being empowered.
The new paradigm is bottom-up, multi-cultural consensus, relying predominantly on open sources of information in all languages, and taking a long view because the consequences of taking a short-term view are easier to visualize and disseminate now.
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22. Peace & Prosperity Can Be Achieved By Changing When & How We Intervene
Public warning can change public policy
More Prevention
More Peacekeeping
More Education
More Long-Term Aid
Less Corruption
Less Censorship
We have a sacred duty.
We must change the intervention paradigm.
The old paradigm, the secret paradigm, defers intervention until the problems are so great that they cannot be ignored.
The new paradigm, the open paradigm, offers intervention very early, through peaceful preventive measures.
Between Google and Wikis, World Brain is Possible
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23. NEW PARADIGM # = Your Top Issues, Local, National, Global 1 2 3
You Are Here... 1 2 3
Far Future
Near Future
Present
Historical Memory
OLD PARADIGM
Massive works needs to be done in digitizing historical documents, presenting the present in a coherent form, and developing virtual reality games that will allow historical and current information to shape alternative scenarios for the near and far future that can be tested.
Any citizen should be able to enter their issue and their zip code, and see all this on their Google screen, along with networks of key decision-makers and the varied constituencies.
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24. Reality-Based Behavior & Budgets
NEW PARADIGM
Reality-Based Behavior & Budgets
You Are Here... 1 2 3
Gaming Future ROIs
Foreign Viewpoints
Reality
Public Memory
OLD PARADIGM
Secrecy rules
Elites rules
Act on 2% of the info.
People complacent
Short-term view
Unilateral militarism
Immoral capitalism
Big stick works BUT
Long-term cost not visible to public
In such a new environment, the public’s memory would be “forever” and no politician or corporate executive will be able to escape public accountability.
Reality, not ideology, will be foundation for public debate about public policy, with a full leavening of foreign viewpoints that are not at all understood by even the most educated Americans today.
To this we will add gaming, man-machine foreign language translation, and advanced analytics available to the individual end-user.
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25. prepared to authorize at FOC for OSINT alone. We go for JOICs,
Education Everywhere All Levels
United Nations
All NGOs, World Bank, IMF
Law Enforcement
Beginning with Interpol
and drilling down locally
in all countries, we
give them OSIS-X
free to obtain
privacy OK &
protection
world-wide.
GWOT data
benefits.
Goal is all UN information including
field reports in real time, beginning
with complex PKI of DoD interest
and networking of all NGO
eyes & ears on the ground.
Any institution agreeing to upload the bulk of its open
research information including all student dissertations
to OSIS-X gets access to OSIS-X and to the toolkit
(registering for the toolkit recruits the individual mind “
by name” into the global network. All students everywhere
are on tap, not just for knowledge creation, but for direct
observation and nuanced evaluation. Later this allows us to
change the educational paradigm to mix distance leaning,
on-demand tutorials, help buttons for any task, and social
networking as needed. Above the cash line, we focus on
restoring education and research as the engines for wealth
production through knowledge creation. Below the cash line, we
focus on intellectual property creation, management, exploitation.
Journalists
We get their organizations
to pay for access, but we
find a way to recruit
them as individuals
to meet our
client needs
on the side.
1PB/Yr 1
5 PB/Yr 2
10 PB/Yr 3
Labor Unions & Religions
Citizens & Advocacy Groups
Pay with information
$1B/Yr 3
$111B/Yr 10
Pay with cash & information
U.S. Based Corporations
It’s no longer about the collection of information or the communication of information. The next big thing is about the connection of dots to dots, dots to people, and people to people. We do this with an intelligent network and a focus on semantic web/synthetic information architecture technology, and the empowerment of individuals so that they can create and share knowledge in real time without organizational, legal, security, cultural,
or language impediments.
The next slide shows the OSS value concept,
the “I” side of the IT equation. SANITIZED
Most of them don’t get it yet—stuck in
IT or KM, internally focused.
Spending $15B a year now on data
mining and related IT-driven ideas.
DoD
$250M/Yr 1
$500M/Yr 2
$1B/Yr 3
USG
Here is are strategic concept for incentivizing a massive flow of information that will be available free to the coalition.
Governments and corporations pay with cash as well as information, and have reciprocal access to quantities of information provided by others.
Schools, Non-Governmental Organizations, Law Enforcement, Journalists, and other members of the “seven tribes” pay with information rather than cash, and also have reciprocal drawing rights.
Two tracks: one with our
team members and
their best big clients,
the other
commoditizing
for small
businesses.
10X DoD
with 1-3 year
lag time.
$1B is half what USDI was
prepared to authorize at FOC
for OSINT alone. We go for JOICs,
OSINT, & integrated man-machine Foreign Language Conversion in a coherent manner that creates added value for each contract, a compelling sales point and a barrier to entry for our competitors who miss the big picture.
OMB pursuing “common solutions”
approach. We give them our model,
funded by DoD, for all of USG with
NORTHCOM as hinge and DHS as
the ultimate beneficiary. The language
capability can help us capture 911 now.
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26. World Intelligence Network
DGI: Director of Global Information GIC: Global Intelligence Council GSC: Global Strategy Council
Side Benefit: Provides USG with global cultural and educational leverage at home and abroad
Side Benefit: Conflict Deterrence & Resolution via Early Warning & Information Peacekeeping
Intelink-X
USA DGI, GIC, GSC
World Intelligence Network
USA Earns Nobels Across S&T
Funded by DoD, Fed By OSIS-X
The Open Source Information System – External or OSIS-X will accommodate all legitimate governments and organizations, while shutting out illicit organizations that can be hunted down in the wilder Internet environs. Essentially we will create a “safe zone” in cyberspace where legitimate business can flourish.
The other levels we can talk about another time, but we do see a need for a global GPS RFID architecture and for a multinational Intelink-X that can share secrets among authorized organizations and individuals, including those brought in “on the fly” with CISCO AON rule changes done instantly.
GPS RFID-X (All Devices, People, Locations)
OSIS-X (Global Nations, Organizations, & Individuals)
General Al Gray: “Communications without intelligence is noise; intelligence without communications is irrelevant.
Peter Drucker (paraphrase): We’ve spent 50 years on the T in IT, now it is time we spent 50 years on the I in IT.
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27. SECRET BIG DATA
NSA-NGA
SAIC
HARRIS
NG-MS
NOT SECRET BIG DATA
UN, Red Cross, NGOs…
NASA , public geospatial
Factiva
LEXIS-NEXIS
SIPRNET
Open Source Information System – External (OSIS-X)
SECRET DISTRIBUTED DATA
Intelink
ARDA
ITIC
JHU/APL
NOT SECRET DISTRIBUTED DATA
CISCO
Google/Libraries
Amazon Inside the Book
Napster Plus
The secret side of any government can use all the help we can give them from OSINT.
Right now we should have two priorities: to build a Google-OSIS that can handle all the unclassified information in all languages all the time, and to scale up the system we already have between OSS and a major Combatant Command, where all of the open source information is pre-tagged to Intelink standards and can be fed up to the high side instantly with one-button acceptance.
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28. Paradigm Shift
Dots don’t know they are secret until some human decides this.
Dots gain value from swarming, lose value within compartmentation.
Dots gain value from history and context.
Dots gain value from speed of delivery.
Dots in a foreign language are smarter.
Information to one is intelligence to another.
My focus is on the larger paradigm shift that is taking place in the sources arena.
I focus on the 90% of the international information that is not secret, not in English, not online, and that can be shared with and exploited by key elements of the government and their private partners.
Although I could collect all this stuff before, it is only now, with CISCO and Google bringing new capabilities to market, that our global access can achieve optimal value inside of your all source Information Operations environment.
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29. Teams Crossing All Boundaries
OPG VPN
Weekly Review
Expert Forum
Distance Learning
Virtual Library
Shared Calendar
Virtual Budget
Shared 24/7 Plot
Shared Rolodex
Absent some basic information sharing agreements and protocols, governments and corporations around the world are wasting billions of dollars every year.
I believe that we can create coalition tiger teams that identify experts across all boundaries, and that can collect, evaluate, and share relevant information helpful to military and inter-agency planning and operations.
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30. Eventually, not immediately, I anticipate US funding of coalition centers around the world.
Initially these would be focused only on open sources of information, but some if not all could migrate toward clandestine and technical tiger teams as well.
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31. Success Story: NATO OSINT
International doctrine for OSINT does exist, and General William Kernan, then Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic, gets a lot of credit for understanding that OSINT is the key to a shared view of the battlefield, and of our common challenges, when operating in a coalition environment. .
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32. Success Story: Dutch OSINT
matters more than www
CISCO IPICS Converts Tactical Radio to Digital Packets
Surface web is NOT the Internet (Deep web plus)
Merging with Internet
The Dutch military are, with the Swedish and Norwegian militaries, among the best in the world in this arena.
Books down, still matter as history
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33. Success Story: USSOCOM
1997 General Schoomaker (then CINCSOC) “got it” and ordered OSINT Branch in JIC, taught in all SOF schoolhouses
Since 2000 or so, OSINT answers 40% of all SOCOM GWOT EEI for a cost of less than $1M a year
Recently General Schoomaker, now Chief of Staff of the Army, declared OSINT is a separate discipline, and Army is developing concepts and doctrine for OSINT as such.
The greatest U.S. success story is right next door, at the U.S. Special Operations Command.
In 1997 is was my privilege to brief General Schoomaker, then CINCSOC, and he “got it” in less than 10 minutes. His decision that day kept me from quitting, and today, the capabilities he created answer 40% of all global war on terror intelligence requirements, at a cost of less than $1M a year.
Now Chief of Staff of the Army, General Schoomaker is unique for having declared OSINT a separate discipline, and Army is developing concepts and doctrine that we can build upon for the coalition team.
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34. Success Story: South African OSINT
First to combine appreciation of both open source software as affordable, and open source intelligence as trust building measure
Only leader of a continent-wide early warning and open source information sharing system
I trained 600 people in South Africa in the 1990’s, and today they have a continent-wide early warning and information sharing system in place. They have also pioneered the use of open source software to enable affordable participation by many poor countries.
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35. Success Story: UK OSINT
Started with just one detective constable
Leveraged global network of pro bono advisors, many met at OSS.Net conferences
Cut cost of finding lairs from L3000/day to L30 in an hour by using OSINT
Detective Steve Edwards of Scotland Yard created the original OSINT unit that has been putting terrorists and arms merchants in jail faster, better, cheaper. Here he is shown receiving the Order of the British Empire from the Queen of England.
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36. ADDNI/OS & OSS CEO ADDNI/OS View of OSINT OSS CEO View of OSINT OSINT
Humint
Sigint
Masint
Imint FI
Osint
Humint
Sigint
Imint
Masint
The ADDNI/OS has one view of how OSINT supports the secret disciplines, and I have a different but complementary view.
The bottom line is that the US Government is finally taking this seriously, and we all have an opportunity to test new concepts and doctrine for unclassified information sharing here at CENTCOM.
OSINT is both a supporting discipline, and an all-source discipline.
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37. Possible Next Steps In-Depth One-Day Workshop here in Tampa
Identify and engage with your national military OSINT POC, then exchange notes within CCC.
Self-study at free web site
Plan for attending IOS ’ Jan 07 at no cost (No cost travel if group aircraft can be arranged )
Consider OSINT summit in home country
Develop concepts for a CENTCOM MIOC
I am under contract to CENTCOM. Here are a few possible next steps.
I welcome questions, I understand we have ten minutes allocated.
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38. Spread the Word Robert David Steele Vivas CEO, OSS.Net, Inc.
Intelligence Coach
(unlisted)
(public)
voice
fax
Use MoveOn.Org OSINT topic to self-organize everywhere in the world
The road is open for a truly global network that is multinational, multiagency, multidisiplinary, and multidomain, and that is dedicated to the proposition that sharing not secrecy, is the primary means of creating peace and prosperity.
I am headed for China and the Congo. I will never be more than an away from all of your, I deeply respect all of you and want to do what I can to coach you and nurture your own emerging capabilities and interests. I am not and do not wish to be a vendor of OSINT services.
I grant to each of you an unlimited unrestricted copyright and translation right, at no cost, asking only that you provide me with a copy of the translated version of this briefing.
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