>“Former CIA Officer Robert David Steele Testifies: Child Trafficking Networks Are Institutionalized"
Interesting bio for the late Robert David Steele - includes strong early advocate for Open Source AI
From https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA522234.pdfPDF
Advancing Strategic Thought Series
HUMAN INTELLIGENCE:
ALL HUMANS, ALL MINDS, ALL THE TIME
May 2010
"ROBERT D. STEELE is a retired Marine Corps infantry and intelligence officer and also qualified as an S-1/Adjutant, with service at all levels from platoon to Service Headquarters. After four years active duty, the balance of twenty to be spent in the Individual Ready Reserve (IRR), and a decade as a clandestine case officer for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), he resigned from the CIA to accept a Marine Corps invitation to be the senior civilian responsible for creating the Marine Corps Intelligence Center (today a Command) and served as the study director for the flagship study, Overview of Planning and Programming Factors for Expeditionary Operations in the Third World.
He resigned from the Marine Corps civil service in 1993 to lead the modern Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) revolution, and is the author of the DIA, NATO, and SOF OSINT Handbooks, as well as personally responsible for training 7,500 officers from 66 countries.
His latest book [as of May 2010], INTELLIGENCE for EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, and Sustainability, outlines a course of action for creating public intelligence in the public interest across all organizations, beginning with the United Nations.
Mr. Steele founded OSS.Net, Inc. [now closed] and Earth Intelligence Network, the latter a 501c3 public charity, and is the foremost proponent for a Swedish concept enhancing, Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multi-domain Information-Sharing and Sense-Making (M4IS2).
Mr. Steele holds graduate degrees in international relations and public administration from Lehigh University and the University of Oklahoma.
He has also earned certificates in intelligence policy from Harvard University and a diploma in defense studies from the Naval War College."
https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA522234.pdf PDF
See also
https://2001-2009.state.gov/s/p/of/proc/30873.htm [more bio, context for presentation at State Dept]
and
https://2001-2009.state.gov/s/p/of/proc/30870.htm
Described as:
The New Craft of Open Source Intelligence: How the U.S. Department of State Should Lead
-Robert David Steele, CEO of OSS.NET, Remarks to the Secretary's Open Forum, Co-Sponsored by the World Affairs Council of Washington, DC
- March 24, 2004
- Opening Remarks and Introduction
- Note: The 42 slides displayed during this presentation are easily downloadable from this url: http://www.oss.net/extra/news/?module_instance=1&id=2348