NOVANEWS
http://www.theguardian.com/
Robert David Steele, former Marine, CIA case officer, and US co-founder of the US Marine Corps intelligence activity, is … widely recognised as the leader of the Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) paradigm. In 1992, despite opposition from the CIA, he obtained Marine Corps permission to organise a landmark international conference on open source intelligence – the paradigm of deriving information to support policy decisions not through secret activities, but from open public sources available to all. The conference was such a success it brought in over 620 attendees from the intelligence world. But the CIA … ensured that Steele was prohibited from running a second conference, [prompting] him to resign from his position as second-ranking civilian in Marine Corps intelligence.
Last month, Steele presented a startling paper at the Libtech conference in New York. Drawing on principles set out in his latest book, The Open-Source Everything Manifesto … he told the audience that all the major preconditions for revolution – set out in his 1976 graduate thesis – were now present in the United States and Britain. Steele’s book … connects up the increasing corruption, inefficiency and unaccountability of the intelligence system and its political and financial masters with escalating inequalities and environmental crises. But he also offers a comprehensive vision of hope. “Sharing, not secrecy, is the means by which we … can create a nonzero win-win Earth that works for one hundred percent of humanity.”
Note: Watch an excellent video showing Mr. Steele believes that most terrorist attacks are false flag operations.
