Professional Documents
Culture Documents
July 1,2003
• On the need for a national intelligence think tank/planning center on the NDU
model:
o The IC really doesn't know what open source can tell us. He recommends
examining and interviewing operations such as Oxford Analytica and
Stratfor.com to determine if private sector can and should be used more
extensively in OSINT collection and analysis.
o Sherman Kent is alleged to have said: 85% of what is known comes from
open sources.
• On the utility of examining the role of lawyers in the activities of the IC before
and after 9-11 :