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Here are a few of the products we make to support the OSINT community.
You will find here one or two papers I wrote, links to the Online Resource Discovery Toolkit The Repertorium, link to the OSINT bibliography as well as a review on our training programmes.
Arno Reuser. – In: Journal of Mediterranean and Balkan Intelligence. – Vol. 10, no.2 (2017). – p. 29-43
The intelligence cycle is widely known and used in intelligence studies to explain the intelligence production process, however, the cycle in its classical shape and format is not adequate anymore for the current age. The information landscape has changed drastically, source analysis has become much more important than it already was, the communication circle has changed, the phrase “analysis”
is misused and most importantly of all: the concept of customer or client is non-existent in any intelligence cycle. This paper proposes a radically changed
intelligence production cycle that at least for Open Source Intelligence processes works much better, where the customer is in the middle, the phrase “analysis” replaced by “synthesis”, and where the production speeds is seriously increased
by replacing the cycle by a propeller.
The Internet Resource Discovery Toolkit
Directory of online resources for OSINT research purposes.
Key to any OSINT research is to know your sources. The toolkit started with the list of reference works issued at the library academy in the 80ies of the previous century, then grew via floppy disc, diskette, simple text files, XML to a product of a MySQL database.
The toolkit holds about 750 references on a wide variety of subjects. Also search engines, fact checking, news, conflict studies, terrorism and much more. Most links are annotated.
bibliography of the most essential sources in open source intelligence
The OSINT Treasure Trove
The bibliography holds links to the full text of OSINT reports, books and papers. In some cases the full text was not available so the links go to Amazon instead.
Most of the llinks are annotated.
The main entry catalogue is built following the FOBID ISBD rules. There are indexes for authornames, corporate authors, serial titles, publishers, journals, date etc. Indexes always link to the full description in the main entry catalogue
The KWIC index (Hans Peter Luhn, 1960) is a very early example of computerised indexing techniques.
Efren Torres-Baches
Journal of European and American Intelligence Studies. – Vol. 1, no. 1 (2019). – p.
”As an intelligence professional, the learning and education never ends. I am always looking for the next best training course or for information that would enhance my current set of skills.
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Robert David Steele may be considered to be the global grandfather and founder of open source intelligence. During his career he published an immense amount of papers, notes, abstracts and more.
He also organised 15 international conferences (1992 – 2004) of which the full text is presented on this page. The quality is not the best due to the formatting used and some proceedings have much more information
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