RE: OSINT distributed haven (Intellagora)

[Phillip H. Zakas]

This reminds me of a story i heard (from one of the planners) about the us
invasion of grenada in 1983.  intelligence agencies didn't have a recent map
of the island and satellite images aren't very good for identifying street
names, etc.  the only maps available of the island were really really old
(1890's i think, but can't remember the exact year).  and so when they
landed, one of the first tasks was to go to a gas station and buy maps of
the city.  open source intelligence can be a good thing.

phillip


> Aimee wrote:
> >From Aftergood's Secrecy News
>
> 
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> > INTELLIGENCE AND THE OPEN SOURCE CHALLENGE
>
> > The U.S. intelligence community is belatedly recognizing that it has
> failed
> > to fully exploit the availability of open source intelligence and that
> > remedial steps to correct this problem should be "a top priority for
> > investment."
>
> 
>
> ~Aimee

RE: OSINT distributed haven (Intellagora)

[Aimee Farr]

Zakas:

> This reminds me of a story i heard (from one of the planners) about the us
> invasion of grenada in 1983.  intelligence agencies didn't have a
> recent map
> of the island and satellite images aren't very good for identifying street
> names, etc.  the only maps available of the island were really really old
> (1890's i think, but can't remember the exact year).  and so when they
> landed, one of the first tasks was to go to a gas station and buy maps of
> the city.  open source intelligence can be a good thing.

That should be funny, but it's not.

We threw too much money at fancy whizmos. Intelligence is human.

~Aimee