Next week I am sending my new book to\u00a0 President Donald Trump, copied to General Secretary Xi Jinping and President Vladimir Putin via their Ambassadors to the USA, and to the US Secretaries of State and Defense and the Acting DNI, D\/CIA, and D\/DIA.<\/p>\n China and Russia are interested in my ideas. Is the USA to lose me? I hope not.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/phibetaiota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Steele-with-Logo-Cropped.jpg?ssl=1\"){kind=logo}
<\/a>ROBERT STEELE:<\/strong> Afer nine years as a spy including three back-to-back tours overseas with five times the regional recruiting and production record, in 1988 I conceptualized the modern discipline of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT). In 1993 Alvin Toffler built a chapter around me, \u201cThe Future of the Spy<\/a>\u201d and called me \u201cthe rival store\u201d but he did not realize I remained an \u201call-source\u201d intelligence professional. In 2000 I published ON INTELLIGENCE: Spies and Secrecy in an Open World<\/em><\/a> and in 2002 THE NEW CRAFT OF INTELLIGENCE: Personal, Public, & Political<\/em><\/a>. As I document in my latest book, REINVENTING INTELLIGENCE: 30 Years in the Wilderness<\/em><\/a>, from 1989-2019 I have sought to reform US intelligence by placing clandestine human and covert technical collection in the context of a much larger open source human collection ecology that also provides 100% processing of all information collection (instead of 1% as we have\u00a0 today) while also proviiding strategic, operational, tactical, and technical decision-support to EVERY level across EVERY government function (instead of 4% to the few top commanders and nothing for everyone else).<\/p>\n
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