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'''Open source intelligence (OSINT)''' is an [[intelligence collection management | intelligence collection discipline]] that uses materials available, in principle, to the public. To put "public" in context, some material, for example, might be a foreign-language radio broadcast that has to be transcribed and translated into the language of the intelligence analysts and consumers. | '''Open source intelligence (OSINT)''' is an [[intelligence collection management | intelligence collection discipline]] that uses materials available, in principle, to the public. To put "public" in context, some material, for example, might be a foreign-language radio broadcast that has to be transcribed and translated into the language of the intelligence analysts and consumers. | ||
Revision as of 00:17, 17 May 2008
Open source intelligence (OSINT) is an intelligence collection discipline that uses materials available, in principle, to the public. To put "public" in context, some material, for example, might be a foreign-language radio broadcast that has to be transcribed and translated into the language of the intelligence analysts and consumers.
News media, therefore, are a major contributor to OSINT. Most 24-hour intelligence watch and military operations centers have a television set constantly tuned to the Cable News Network. The World Wide Web contributes massively to OSINT.
United States
The National Security Act of 1947 authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to provide "services of common concern" to what became the United States intelligence community. Until the 2004 reorganization of the intelligence community, one of those "services of common concern" was OSINT from the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS).[1] FBIS, which had absorbed the Joint Publication Research Service, a military organization that translated documents,[2] which moved into the National Open Source Enterprise under the Director of National Intelligence.
CIA still provides a variety of unclassified maps and reference documents both to the intelligence community and the public.[3]
As part of its mandate to gather intelligence, CIA is looking increasingly online for information, and has become a major consumer of social media. "We're looking at YouTube, which carries some unique and honest-to-goodness intelligence," said Doug Naquin, director of the DNI Open Source Center (OSC) at CIA. "We're looking at chat rooms and things that didn't exist five years ago, and trying to stay ahead."[4]
References
- ↑ Mercado, Stephen (2007-04-15). Reexamining the Distinction Between Open Information and Secrets. Central Intelligence Agency Center for the Study of Intelligence. Retrieved on 2008-05-01.
- ↑ Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS)
- ↑ CIA Maps & Publications
- ↑ Thomas Claburn (2008-02-06). CIA Monitors YouTube For Intelligence. InformationWeek. Retrieved on 2008-02-11.