The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Intelligence Gathering and Reform: The Case of the United States According to Gregory Treverton, US intelligence reform remains a work in progress. While reorienting the FBI and creating the National Counterterrorism Center represent progress, establishing the Department of Homeland Security and the position of Director of National Intelligence do not. By Gregory Treverton for the …
Source Attribution: Robert David Steele, ON INTELLIGENCE: Spies and Secrecy in an Open World (AFCEA 2000, OSS 2002), “Figure 17: Competing Influences on the Policymaker,” p. 53. Recreated by the author from memory of the same information presented by Dr. Gregory Treverton (originator) at the Harvard JFK “Intelligence Policy Seminar” circa 1986.
Greg Treverton was a brilliant conceptualizer of the competing influences on policymakers, and also a major voice in the original discussion of tribes in relation to intelligence focused on the intelligence production tribe and the political consumer tribe. Graphic: Competing Influences on the Policymaker (Treverton) This was a contributing foundation for Robert Steele’s conceptualization–with Alvin …
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Dr. Greg Treverton has been a mainstay “in-house” thinker from Harvard and the Council on Foreign Relations to many years at RAND and a brief stint as Vice Chairman of the National Intelligence Council (NIC), in which capacity he heard from us on the need for all analysts to be able to do citation analysis …
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Dozens of US spies killed after Iran and China uncovered CIA messaging service using Google One former official claiming that “our biggest insider threat is our own institution”. The CIA’s communications suffered a catastrophic compromise. It started in Iran. Yahoo News’ reporting on this global communications failure is based on conversations with eleven former U.S. …
What I Learned in 40 Years of Doing Intelligence Analysis for US Foreign Policymakers Martin Petersen, Studies in Intelligence, 2011 PDF (8 Pages): Petersen-What I Learned-20Apr2011 Policymakers do not always see how we can help them.
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