Open Source Intel Handbook 0709 PDF
Open Source Intel Handbook 0709 PDF
Open Source Intel Handbook 0709 PDF
July 2009
Country Studies
Public Places
Table of Contents
Comments.....................................................................................................................................5
Open Source Intelligence (OSINT): What It Is and What It Isn’t ...................................................6
How To Use Open Source Intelligence.........................................................................................6
MiningThe Internet For Intelligence ..............................................................................................7
Key Army Access Sites.................................................................................................................9
Must Haves References................................................................................................................9
Core Open Source Intelligence Documents & Guides ..............................................................9
MI Officer Students .................................................................................................................10
Global Incidents (interactive maps).........................................................................................10
Access by Topic..........................................................................................................................12
911 Final Report .....................................................................................................................12
Acquisition...............................................................................................................................12
Afghanistan .............................................................................................................................12
Africa.......................................................................................................................................12
Agriculture...............................................................................................................................12
Al Qaeda/Taliban ....................................................................................................................13
Aljazeera .................................................................................................................................13
Ammunition Plants and Depots...............................................................................................13
Area/International Codes ........................................................................................................13
Armies Of The World ..............................................................................................................13
Aviation ...................................................................................................................................14
Banking & Finance..................................................................................................................14
Biometrics ...............................................................................................................................15
BLOGS....................................................................................................................................15
Bridges ....................................................................................................................................15
CAMS Around the World.........................................................................................................16
Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL)..............................................................................16
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) ...........................................................................................16
Chemical/Biological/Radiological ............................................................................................17
China.......................................................................................................................................18
Collective Intelligence .............................................................................................................19
Computer Forensics................................................................................................................19
Counterintelligence And Espionage ........................................................................................19
Counterterrorism .....................................................................................................................19
Country Links/Studies .............................................................................................................20
Crime & Justice .......................................................................................................................22
Cryptome (controversial site but has good information)..........................................................22
Critical Thinking ......................................................................................................................23
Cuba .......................................................................................................................................25
Cultural Intelligence ................................................................................................................26
Cyber & Information Warfare ..................................................................................................27
Databases (Some Searchable) ...............................................................................................27
Datamining Tools ....................................................................................................................30
Defense...................................................................................................................................30
Demographics & Religion (See Also Religion)........................................................................31
Denial and Deception..............................................................................................................31
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Comments
This is a starter handbook for your use. It is not complete by any stretch of the imagination and is
intended to help you get started building your own handbook. You can add and delete as you wish. The
idea is to get you started on something you can continue to build on and share with others. Hopefully at
some future date all can be brought together for the benefit of all who use this handbook. Forward any
sites you feel should be added to me at [email protected].
This is a living document and at the time of publication all links were active. But we all know the
chaotic nature of the WEB and over time some sites will be pulled off or no longer function. Please report
broken/inactive links to me so I can continue to update the guide.
I realize also that we don’t think alike. If you feel some links do not belong in a particular category let
me know and I will make the adjustments. If you feel a new category should be added please justify it,
and if you discover links that you think are relevant to the handbook please submit your list and I will
update. Together we can create a valuable guide that is not only useful to the intelligence analyst but also
beneficial to all branches of the military, and civilian agencies. The idea is to develop something that any
branch (infantry, artillery, armor, etc) besides MI can use for their own intelligence gathering. Remember,
“Every Soldier Is A Sensor”.
While I have tried to get you to your objective as quickly as possible, there is still no substitute for
effective searching techniques. I strongly recommend looking over this very basic WEB searching
techniques site http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Handouts.html and download
the tutorial with powerpoint slides and handouts.
There are two areas one cannot get away from on the WEB, pornography and political agendas. I
have definitely made sure that none of the links end up with the former, but the latter cannot be avoided.
I have been advised that I probably have published too much information and have made it easier for
the criminal element. All the information gathered has been through open source harvesting and anyone
with even the slightest knowledge of good search techniques will be able to gather the same information.
For example, the nuclear related portions in this handbook when merged together will produce a neat little
file. You can gather this same information at the public library or by visiting several blogs and merging the
results.
Those links that require a .mil or .gov return address are included
for those authorized access, they will not work for those not
authorized access.
Prior to leaving the service of the U.S. Army I established that this is my intellectual property and there
are no applicable constraints on my sharing it with the public.
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According to the NATO Open Source Intelligence Handbook, November 2001, there are four
distinct categories of open source information and intelligence.
1) Open Source Data (OSD). Data is the raw print, broadcast, oral debriefing, or other form of
information from a primary source. It can be a photograph, a tape recording, a commercial satellite image,
or a personal letter from an individual. A god example is a reporter embedded with forces in Afghanistan
or Iraq. He/she is taking pictures, talking to soldiers, recording conversations and firefights, and taking
notes with a pen or pencil. This is considered raw data until it goes through a conversion process to
create a coherent product.
2) Open Source Information (OSI). OSI is comprised of the raw data that can be put together,
generally by an editorial process that provides some filtering and validation as well as presentation
management. OSI is generic information that is usually widely disseminated. Newspapers, books,
broadcasts, and general daily reports are part of the OSI world. An example is a reporter embedded with
forces who takes the raw data and converts it into a meaningful article that is printed in newspapers,
magazines or broadcasted over the air waves. OSI is what a Soldier would purchase at the bookstore
inside the Post Exchange in the form of USA Today or Newsweek.
3) Open Source Intelligence (OSINT). OSINT is information that has been deliberately
discovered, discriminated, distilled, and disseminated to a select audience, generally the commander and
his/her immediate staff, in order to address a specific question. In the case of a battlefield commander, it
would more than likely be answering the priority intelligence requirements (PIR) or specific orders or
requests (SOR). OSINT, in other words, applies the proven process of intelligence to the broad diversity
of open sources of information, and creates intelligence. Example: The meaningful article above (OSI)
that was created from raw data is used to support an operation. It’s quite possible that a photo
accompanying the article may be of a house known to harbor insurgents. The photo in the article
identifies the location and now can be used to support a tailored operation to attack the insurgents.
4) Validated OSINT (OSINT-V). OSINT-V is information to which a very high degree of certainty
can be attributed. It can only be produced by an all-source intelligence professional, with access to
classified intelligence sources, whether working for a nation or for a coalition staff. It can also come from
an assured open source to which no question can be raised concerning its validity (live video of an
aircraft arriving at an airport that is broadcast over the media). OSINT-V is OSINT for which there are
either confirming or unavailable classified sources or there are no available classified sources disputing
OSINT. OSINT-V is produced only when the analyst has access to classified sources.
Example: CNN reporter takes photos and reports on a bridge. Intelligence personnel are aware
the bridge is vital for the movement of insurgent supplies; however, CNN is unaware of that. Classified
information confirms that such a bridge exists. This in effect validates the reporting as OSINT-V,
especially if the bridge is identified to be destroyed to keep insurgents from moving supplies. But, if there
isn’t anything in the classified holdings to deny the existence of the bridge, it is still considered OSINT-V
since this is the first time the bridge has been observed and reported, and there are other sources like
other reporters to backup the findings.
People in the intelligence business are realists and know that everything cannot be monitored
simultaneously; construction of new infrastructure is continuously taking place around the world. We
cannot keep track of new buildings, bridges, roads or airfields being built. This is what makes open
source reporting extremely valuable. It covers the areas the classical “INTS” are not assigned to cover.
The only time OSINT-V can be disputed is when there is confirming evidence to deny the information.
Summary: How do I know when I have OSINT? The simple answer is the analyst does not have
OSINT until the open source information has been processed and analyzed, and supports a specific
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requirement. The specific requirement can be a tailored operation or simply answering a question. The
analyst has to be very careful when it comes to distinguishing between OSI and OSINT. Open source
information exploitation is exactly what the name implies, that which is gathered/collected from open
sources. In general, it is information that is available to the general public without restrictions unless it is
copyrighted material. These include newspapers, the internet, books, phone books, scientific journals,
radio broadcasts, television, individuals, and other forms. On the other hand, OSINT is an intelligence
gathering discipline that involves collecting information from open sources and analyzing it to produce
usable intelligence, and there isn’t anything that says intelligence must be classified in order for it to have
utility. In the Intelligence Community, the term "open" refers to overt, publicly available sources (as
opposed to covert or classified sources); it is not related to open-source software. OSINT is distinguished
from straight research in that it applies the process of intelligence to create tailored knowledge supportive
of a specific decision by a specific individual or group.
Open source intelligence is a process of information gathering from public and overt sources,
such as newspapers and military trade journals, that produces "actionable intelligence." Far from being
the hobby of amateurs, open source intelligence is used by official military and government intelligence
agencies on a regular basis.
1. Gather sources. The number of possible open source intelligence outlets is limitless. Some
basic ones are newspapers, which report on things like troop and fleet movement, and even civilians who
visit other countries and can make relevant observations upon return. Strategy and defense information
websites, such as Jane's Group, also provide high quality information for you to harvest.
2. Pick a region or topic. Monitoring all varieties of open source intelligence across regional and
topical interests takes huge amounts of manpower. To effectively use open source intelligence you
should focus on one region or issue at a time. This will help you to stay on top of the latest information
and will allow you to develop a background understanding of intelligence items.
3. Connect the dots. Once you have gathered your sources you need to monitor news and
information in order to connect the dots. Look, for example, at how heads of state visits coincide with
arms sales. Then consider troop and fleet movement against rising tensions in various regions. Use
widely available technology such as Google Earth to get views of important locations. Take all this kind of
information and try to deduce the most likely intelligence information from it.
4. Test your theories. One of the best ways to test a theory that you've constructed on the basis
of open source intelligence is to publish the theory. You can post theories on strategy discussion forums
or you can send your piece to influential military bloggers or even newspapers. Check the responses from
other members of the open source intelligence community to see what the criticisms might be.
How much data is on the internet that can be used for open source intelligence purposes? We
are looking at approximately 5 million terabytes. Just how big is a terabyte? Let’s start with the basics
and work our way up.
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Bit: A Bit is the smallest unit of data that a computer uses. It can be used to represent two states of
information, such as Yes - No or 0 - 1.
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Byte: A Byte is equal to 8 Bits. 1 Byte could be equal to one character. 10 Bytes could be equal to a
word. 100 Bytes would equal an average sentence.
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Kilobyte (KB) = approximately 1,000 bytes
A kilobyte (KB) is normally defined as 1,000 bytes. Technically, a kilobyte is actually 1,024 bytes which is
2 to the 10th power (1,024) bytes.
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Kilobit = approximately 1,000 bits
A kilobit is different than a Kilobyte. A kilobit is approximately 1000 bits while a Kilobyte is approximately
1000 bytes.
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Megabyte (MB) = approximately 1,000 KB or 1,000,000 bytes
Technically a Megabyte is 2 to the 20th power
(1,048,576) bytes.
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Megabit = approximately 1,000 kilobits = 1,000,000 bits
.
In data communications, a kilobit is a thousand bits (or 1,000 bits) and a megabit is a thousand kilobits (or
1,000,000 bits). These are normally used for measuring the amount of data that is transferred in a
second between two telecommunication points. Kilobits per second is usually shortened to kbps and
megabit per second is abbreviated as mbps.
Bits in data communications are discrete signal pulses. For example, 28.8 kilobits per second (kbps) is
28,800 bits per second.
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Gigabyte = approximately 1000 Megabytes = 1,000,000 Kilobytes = Billion bytes (1,000,000,000 bytes)
Technically a Gigabyte is 2 to the 30th power (1,073,741,824) bytes.
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Terabyte (TB) = approximately 1,000 Gigabytes = 1,000,000 Megabytes = Trillion bytes
(1,000,000,000,000 bytes)
Technically a Terabyte is 2 to the 40th power (1,099,511,627,776) bytes
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Petabyte (PB) = approximately 1,000 Terabytes = 1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes
Technically a Petabyte is 2 to the 50th power (1,125,899,906,842,624) bytes
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Exabyte (EB) = approximately 1,000 Petabytes = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes
Technically an Exabyte is 2 to the 60th power (1,152,921,504,606,846,976) bytes
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It is estimated that if you were to type up every word ever spoken by every human being ever to live in all
of the history of the world, the resulting file would be between 2 and 5 Exabytes in size.
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Zettabyte = 1000 Exabytes
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Yottabyte = 1000 Zettabytes
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Brontobyte = 1000 Yottabytes = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes = 1 followed by 27
zeros…
How big is 1 followed by 27 zeros? That would be the rough equivalent of the total number of
atoms contained in all of the bodies of every person living in Indiana… give or take a few billion-trillion
here and there…
Source: Shelbyville Central Schools at http://www.shelbycs.org/technology/howbigisagigabyte.html
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Based on these figures, I opine that intelligence exists out there just waiting to be tapped. Oh,
come on now, you do have search engines to help research that data; it’s only 5+ million terabytes! Lots
of data but guess what, even Google which is considered currently the best search engine, has only
indexed about 170 terabytes. Now you know why I recommend using more than one search engine with
good keywords to assist.
The 304th Military Intelligence Battalion conducts officer training at the tactical and operational
levels in support of Army, Joint, Interagency and Multinational Commands; producing competent
MI professionals who are grounded in the warrior ethos and Army values and ready to deploy in
support of an Army at war; simultaneously the Battalion ensures the welfare of Soldiers,
civilians, and their families.
IKN is a Knowledge Management tool that enables Intelligence soldiers all over the world to
communicate, collaborate and investigate. It hosts discussion forums, serves as a single point
of entry to get to USAIC and other Intelligence Community websites, and hosts a variety of
public and private web applications that support the Intelligence Community. In order to ensure
that IKN continues to meet your needs, we encourage you to provide us with feedback.
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MI Officer Students
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Access by Topic
Acquisition
Afghanistan
Afghanistan Order of Battle 2007 FOUO (listed as FOUO but yet anyone can have access to it)
http://cryptome.org/dodi/afghan-battle.zip
Afghanistan Terrain Analysis FOUO (can be accessed by anyone)
http://cryptome.org/dodi/afghan-terrain.zip
Winning In Afghanistan http://cryptome.com/0001/afghan-win.htm
Africa
AFRICOM Command Overview (labeled FOUO but in the public domain) africom-overview.zip
Terrorism and U.S. Counter-Terrorism Programs in Africa: An Overview
http://www.ccc.nps.navy.mil/si/2007/Jan/piomboJan07.pdf
Center For African Studies http://ica.stanford.edu/?q=afr
Africa Online http://www.metrostage.com/africa_online.htm
African States List http://www.metrostage.com/africa_list.htm
The African Continent http://www.maryknollafrica.org/AfricaMap.htm
Africa Facts http://www.maryknollafrica.org/Facts2.htm
http://www.calacademy.org/exhibits/africa/exhibit/facts/index.html
Index Of Maps For Africa http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/africa/
Democracy Index http://www.economist.com/media/pdf/DEMOCRACY_INDEX_2007_v3.pdf
Index Of Country Information http://geoinfo.uneca.org/sdiafrica/country%20information/
The Index On Africa http://www.afrika.no/index/index.html
African Studies Center http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Home_Page/Country.html
Agriculture
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http://www.ers.usda.gov/statefacts/
http://www.usda.gov/homelandsecurity/
Al Qaeda/Taliban
Aljazeera
Aljazeera On You Tube http://www.youtube.com/aljazeeraenglish
Area/International Codes
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http://www.mapsofworld.com/world-top-ten/world-top-ten-countries-with-largest-armies-map.html
List Of Countries By Size Of Armed Forces
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_size_of_armed_forces
Rank Insignia http://hemsidor.torget.se/users/k/klix/grader_e.html
The Worlds Armed Forces Links http://www.armedforces.co.uk/linksworldarmies.htm
Armed Forces of the World Discussion Board
http://www.strategypage.com/militaryforums/30-14422.aspx
Aviation
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Biometrics
DoD Biometrics
http://www.biometrics.org/bc2007/presentations/Thu_Sep_13/Session_I/13_Dee_DOD.pdf
Where Do We Biometrics Want To Go
http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/pdf/biometrics/16-max_snijder_en.pdf
Biometric Training http://biometricesc.mi.army.mil/training/default.aspx
Links to Biometric Technology Websites http://www.biometrics.org/links.htm
Biometrics 101 Tutorial
http://www.biometrics.dod.mil/ReferenceTutorials/Biometrics101/tabid/86/Default.aspx
Biometrics Glossary
http://www.biometrics.dod.mil/ReferenceTutorials/BiometricsGlossary/tabid/87/Default.aspx
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Journal http://www.rfidjournal.com/
BLOGS
BLOGS, like social sites, are good sources of information harvesting for intelligence purposes if
you have the time and patience, especially the time. Good keyword searching will cut down on the time
you spend on BLOGS if your only reason for being there is to harvest information. It is very easy to get
distracted though with all the videos that appear daily and you have to be focused on the task. I don’t
subscribe to them and I think that too much information is being passed around. A good analyst, foreign
or domestic, can put together enough information from BLOGS to build a good intelligence file. However,
I realize that people are not going to shut them down and too many folks out there want access to them.
World Blogs (One of the Web’s largest and most comprehensive directories of World
Blogs, sorted by country and region.) http://www.worldpress.org/blogs.htm
Top 100 Blogs http://technorati.com/pop/blogs/
Fresh brewed news plus stewing views http://www.memeorandum.com/
Global Politics, Economics & Ideas http://www.foreignpolicy.com/resources/bgn.php
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/resources/links.php
Infoshop http://www.infoshop.org/inews/index.php?topic=16
Rantburg http://rantburg.com/index.php
Counterterrorism http://counterterrorismblog.org/
Technorati (scours the blogosphere) http://www.technorati.com/
Informed Comment http://www.juancole.com/
Excellent Blog on Iranian Naval Capabilities
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1790191/posts
Iranian Blogs http://www.iraniansblogs.com/
Local Blogdigger http://local.blogdigger.com/index.html
Google Blog Search http://blogsearch.google.com/
Bridges
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CALL https://call2.army.mil/Login.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fdefault.aspx
(why would CAMS be included in this handout? Imagine being told you have to deploy to a
certain country to conduct an operation. You are told the weather is 40 degrees with a heavy
overcast and it is drizzling. You can only imagine an image of what it looks like. However, with a
weather cam of the area the image is vivid and in real time. Most major cities around the world
have cams showing certain parts of the city which can be very helpful when planning an
operation. They can show areas to avoid and roads that support your equipment.)
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Chemical/Biological/Radiological
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China
http://www.atomicarchive.com/Almanac/PRCFacilities.shtml
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/china/index.html
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/china/nuke.htm
http://www.nti.org/db/china/wnwmdat.htm
http://www.cdi.org/issues/nukef&f/database/chnukes.html
http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/key-issues/nuclear-weapons/issues/facilities/chinese-nuclear-weapons-
facilities.htm
Maps of China http://www.maps-of-china.com/index.shtml
The China Post News http://www.chinapost.com.tw/
Submarines
http://www.strategypage.com/fyeo/howtomakewar/databases/submarine_database/submarines.asp
China Brief http://www.jamestown.org/publications_view.php?publication_id=4
http://www.jamestown.org/publications_archives.php?publication_id=4
Chinese-Russian exercise with ships, tank, aircraft etc.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8842216285861816122
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1457349235872084447
Military Power of the People’s Republic of China
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/2006/2006-prc-military-power.htm
Chinese Military Power http://www.comw.org/cmp/
Chinese Defence Today http://www.sinodefence.com/
China Leadership Monitor http://www.hoover.org/publications/clm
China Today (military weapons and equipment) http://www.chinatoday.com/arm/
Chinese Air/Land/Sea Strike Missiles http://www.softwar.net/c801.html
The New Chinese Air Force http://www.softwar.net/plaaf.htm
Chinese Missile Page http://www.softwar.net/dongfeng.html
People’s Daily Online (English version) http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/
http://english.people.com.cn/rss/China.xml
China Air & Naval Power http://china-pla.blogspot.com/
Sino Defence http://www.sinodefence.com/
China's J-10: An Imagery Analysis
http://intellibriefs.blogspot.com/2008/01/chinas-j-10-imagery-analysis.html
Hypothetical attack on U.S. outlined by China
http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2008/01/airforce_china_strategy_080121/
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Collective Intelligence
Computer Forensics
Counterterrorism
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Country Links/Studies
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The Joshua Project: Mission is to convert people to Christianity. However, the site contains a
wealth of information w/ respect to various peoples in the region, their respective languages and it can
come with a picture so one is familiar with the dress associated with that culture.
http://www.joshuaproject.net/
Regional & Country Information http://www.escapeartist.com/global8/countries.htm
Country Reports On Human Right Practices For 2006 Vol 1 http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-
bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=110_cong_senate_committee_prints&docid=f:33723.wais.pdf
Country Reports On Human Right Practices For 2006 Vol 2 http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-
bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=110_cong_senate_committee_prints&docid=f:41618.wais.pdf
Utilization Of Internet Tools And Resources For Open Source Intelligence (awesome site for the
open source analyst) http://www.onstrat.com/osint/
U.S. Department Of State http://www.state.gov/countries/
Places Of Peace And Power http://www.sacredsites.com/middle_east/iraq/iraq.html
Globalis is an interactive world atlas where you decide what is to be displayed on the map.
Globalis aims to create an understanding for similarities and differences in human societies, as well as
how we influence life on the planet. This is primarily done using visual means.
http://globalis.gvu.unu.edu/
How To Use Globalis http://globalis.gvu.unu.edu/doc.cfm?page=help
Country And Culture Studies http://www.dcswift.com/military/country.html
Geography Network http://www.geographynetwork.com/
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Critical Thinking
This free web-based training is provided as an introduction to Anacapa’s scheduled and on-site
courses in intelligence analysis. Upon completion of all three training modules, you may obtain a
certificate of completion. Click on a link below to go to each module.
http://www.anacapatraining.com/company/index.html
1. Introduction to Intelligence Analysis
(1 to 2 Hours)
2. Data Collection Tradeoffs
(2-3 Hours)
3. Critical Thinking Strategies
(2-3 Hours)
Essentials Of Critrical Thinking http://www.free-ed.net/free-ed/TextResources/critThink_01.asp
Topic Overview
What You Should Learn
Frequently Asked Questions
Tips on Applications
Important Terms
True/False Quiz
Multiple-Choice Quiz
Topic Overview
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Frequently Asked Questions
Tips on Applications
Important Terms
Multiple-Choice Quiz
Topic Overview
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Frequently Asked Questions
Tips on Applications
Important Terms
True/False Quiz
Multiple-Choice Quiz
4. Credibility
Topic Overview
What You Should Learn
Frequently Asked Questions
Tips on Applications
Important Terms
True/False Quiz
Multiple-Choice Quiz
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Topic Overview
What You Should Learn
Frequently Asked Questions
Tips on Applications
Important Terms
True/False Quiz
Multiple-Choice Quiz
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Frequently Asked Questions
Tips on Applications
Important Terms
Multiple-Choice Quiz
7. More Fallacies
Topic Overview
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Frequently Asked Questions
Tips on Applications
Important Terms
True/False Quiz
Multiple-Choice Quiz
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Tips on Applications
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Topic Overview
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Tips on Applications
Important Terms
True/False Quiz
Multiple-Choice Quiz
Topic Overview
What You Should Learn
Frequently Asked Questions
Tips on Applications
Important Terms
True/False Quiz
Multiple-Choice Quiz
Teaching Critical Thinking: Lessons From Cognitive Science
http://frank.itlab.us/forgetting/teaching_critical_thinking.pdf
The Critical Thinking Community http://www.criticalthinking.org/
Cuba
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Santiago de Cuba
Santiago de las Vegas (Havana)
Trinidad
Trinidad East
Villa Clara
Wajay (Havana)
ABYZ News Links http://www.abyznewslinks.com/cuba.htm
Cultural Intelligence
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The Joshua Project: Mission is to convert people to Christianity. However, the site contains a
wealth of information w/ respect to various peoples in the region, their respective languages and it can
come with a picture so one is familiar with the dress associated with that culture.
http://www.joshuaproject.net/
North Korean Short Video Clips http://www.vbs.tv/shows/north-korea/
Interactive Map: Sunni And Shia : The Worlds of Islam
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/shows/iran/map.html
Islamic Holy Places http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Islamic_holy_places
Online Readings In Psychology And Culture
http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~culture/contents_complete.htm
Books on subject
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0275974235/102-7751075-0251322
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0072132604/102-7751075-0251322
http://www.au.af.mil/au/aul/bibs/infowar/if.htm
Frontline: CyberWar (How real is the threat of war in cyberspace, and what does the White House
know that the rest of us don't? FRONTLINE investigates a new war using embedded malicious code,
probes and pings, and other weapons aimed directly at America's power grid, water supply, and
transportation systems. Examples include The Slammer (Super Bowl Sunday), Nimda (a week after 9/11),
Code Red (summer 2001), and Moonlight Maze (from Russia's Academy of Science). View the entire 52
minute program here in six consecutive chapters.)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cyberwar/view/
China’s Cyber-Militia
http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/print_friendly.php?ID=cs_20080531_6948
Wayback Machine (The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other
cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians,
scholars, and the general public [works extremely well with URL addresses])
http://www.archive.org/index.php
Databases By Subject http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/subjects.html
WEB Finding Tools http://library.nps.navy.mil/home/netsearch.htm
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Datamining Tools
NationMaster http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php
Tools For Data Mining http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Tools/
Defense
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Drug Cartels
Mexican Drug Cartels In The United States
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2009/05/world/map.mexican.cartels/index.html
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The Narco News Bulletin (I would treat this one lightly, credibility is suspect)
http://www.narconews.com/
Drug War Clock http://www.drugsense.org/wodclock.htm
Drugs and Terrorism: A New Perspective (dated but useful)
http://www.dea.gov/pubs/intel/02039/02039.html
How Drug Prohibition Finances and Otherwise Enables Terrorism
http://www.cfdp.ca/eoterror.htm
How the Drug War in Afghanistan Undermines America’s War on Terror
http://www.cato.org/pubs/fpbriefs/fpb84.pdf
The Links Between Drug Prohibition and Terrorism http://www.cfdp.ca/terror.htm
Useful Sites http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/levitsky/useful_websites.htm
Afghanistan Drugs and Terrorism http://wwwc.house.gov/international_relations/108/91798.pdf
Crime, Drug Prohibition and Terrorism: An Inevitable Convergence http://www.narcoterror.org/
Mini Submarine http://www.saag.org/%5Cpapers14%5Cpaper1312.html
Common Sense for Drug Policy http://www.csdp.org/news/news/colombia.htm
The Real Drug Lords http://www.serendipity.li/cia/blum1.html
Drug Cartels and Other Organized Crime Groups
http://www.drugstory.org/drug_traffic/cartel_organized.asp
Mexico Fights US Drug War http://www.csdp.org/news/news/mexico.htm
The Globalization Of The Drug Trade http://www.unesco.org/most/sourdren.pdf
Drugs And Criminal Organizations http://www.interpol.int/Public/Drugs/default.asp
The Media Awareness Project - A worldwide network dedicated to drug policy reform. We inform
public opinion and promote balanced media coverage. http://mapinc.org/
Economic/Financial
E-Mail Lookups
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AnyWho http://anywho.com/
Search Detective http://www.searchdetective.net/
InfoSpace http://www.infospace.com/home/white-pages/reverse-email
Email Address Links http://www.emailaddresses.com/email_lookup_large.htm
http://www.nedsite.nl/search/people.htm#email
http://www.infobel.com/teldir/teldir.asp?page=/eng/more/email
Reverse Lookup and Email Search http://www.freeality.com/finde.htm
http://www.searchdetective.net/email.html
MetaEmailSearchAgent http://mesa.rrzn.uni-hannover.de/
PeopleSearchNet
http://peoplesearch.net/peoplesearch/peoplesearch_reverse_email_address.html
The Ultimate Email Directory http://theultimates.com/email/
World Email http://www.worldemail.com/
Energy
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Hamas
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Human Trafficking
HUMINT
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Identity Theft
PureVideo http://www.purevideo.com/
Webseek http://persia.ee.columbia.edu:8008/
Image Seeker http://corbis.ltutech.com/
Google Image Search http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi
Ditto http://www.ditto.com/
NASA http://nix.nasa.gov/
Jupiter Images http://www.jupiterimages.com/en/
Singing Fish http://search.singingfish.com/sfw/home.jsp
Flickr http://www.flickr.com/
Middle East Media Research Institute http://www.memritv.org/subjects.asp
The MEMRI Economic NBlpog http://www.memrieconomicblog.org/
http://www.memri.org/
Webshots http://webshots.com/
Excellent Video Clips From The Middle East http://memritv.org/default.asp
PureVideo http://www.purevideo.com/
YouTube http://youtube.com/
GoogleVideo http://video.google.com/
Daily Motion http://www.dailymotion.com/us
Myspace http://myspace.com/
Stage6 http://stage6.divx.com/
Metacafe http://www.metacafe.com/
Break http://break.com/
Metatube http://www.metatube.net/
Yahoo Video http://video.yahoo.com/
Ifilm http://www.ifilm.com/
Educate Earth http://www.educatedearth.net/index.php
StupidVideos http://stupidvideos.com/
FileCabinet http://filecabi.com/
Hi5 http://hi5.com/
Pandora http://pandora.com/
MTV http://www.mtv.com/
PhotoBucket http://photobucket.com/
OnAirToday (a collection of latest feeds from various sources. More feeds).. http://www.onairtoday.com/
Flixxy http://www.flixxy.com/
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Zoomr : Recent startup that is shaping up to take on Flickr. Have just announced they will be
increasing monthly limits on free and paid accounts to more than what Flickr offers.
Vmix : Founded by the people behind MP3.com, Vmix offers photo and video sharing along with
the ability to create you own slideshows. A busy-looking site that seems to have quite a bit of traffic.
Flickr : The daddy of photo-sharing sites, the first in the breed of web 2.0 photo sites, allows you
to create galleries, tag photos etc. The biggest in terms of traffic and was acquired by Yahoo.
Fotki : Founded in 1998 Fotki has been around for ages in relation to a lot on this list, it offers a
range of services such as photo-sharing, photo-printing, photo-selling and blogging.
Fotolog : Large photo blogging community - claims to have a staggering 1.5 billion page views
and receive over 20 million unique visitors per month which is backed up by its alexa ranking of 33.
Fototopic : Another site that has been around a few years; since 1999. Offers gallery services and
also prints and your photos on to various gifts within their store.
Glowfoto : A basic photo sharing site that offers galleries and the option to upload via mobile
phone. 25million photos have been uploaded by 73k users so far.
MyPhotoAlbum : Photo sharing with the usual features and also offers printing; currently offering
15 free prints to new users. Has had 32million photos uploaded so far.
Panoramio : Photo storage and a mapping feature via a mashup with google maps. Each photo
gets linked with the place it was taken. 2GB storage included for free.
Ringo : No, not the beatle but a rather smart-looking site which combines photo sharing with
social networking. Every week you get your friends newest photos and comments delivered to you. One
of the better-looking sites.
Zoomonga : A nice-looking site but the rather stingy 20mb of uploads per month on the free plan
could be why it doesnt look exactly busy.
Webshots : Another huge site owned by Cnet. Provides the usual photo sharing features plus a
desktop utility for organising photos, prints on gifts etc.
Photobucket : The favourite of myspace users, provides free and paid accounts for image hosting
and video hosting along with the ability to create a flash slideshow. Have harnessed viral marketing to a
tee and provide most of the image hosting for myspace and other social networks.
PBase : Not the easiest on the eye but seems to have gained huge traffic since it was established
in 1999. Very basic features and a huge member’s forum.
OrangePics : A basic site that emphasizes ease of use and safety of your photos. Currently
offering your first full year for free, after which is an annual charge of $24.95.
Phanfare : Offers unlimited storage for a monthly fee of $6.95 to host your photos and video clips.
Also provides downloadable organisation software.
SmugMug : Really nicely designed site that offers accounts from $59.95 per year with a free trial.
The user galleries are nice to look at and you can include video in these.
Dropshots : Front end looks nice and clean and the features are up to scratch but viewing the
sample gallery lets the site down - cluttered and ugly.
Slide : Another site that has taken advantage of myspace to create viral marketing. Users upload
photos and create slideshows using the editor and then post them to their profile or blog etc. Controls are
nice and easy to use, will do well unless myspace bring out their own slideshow tools.
Photosite : Provides photo sharing but you get the impression the site is more about selling prints
and gifts than that. looks a touch too corporate although the drag and drop tools sound impressive.
23HQ : Nice site which provides completely free accounts, basic features such as galleries,
tagging and photogroups; where you can form your own community of friends and chat and share each
other’s photos.
Kodak Gallery : Goes under the name of a photo sharing site but looks very corporate and set up
to flog merchandise rather than provide a nice website experience.
Zoto : Nice site with good features such as geo-tagging, photo blogging and the usual community
features such as browsing by interest. Free version with the option to upgrade to a pro account for $24.95
per year.
Snapfish : Another corporate site run by Hewlett Packard, offers photo sharing and digital prints
of your snaps.
Flukiest : Photo, Video and music sharing with the ability to upload via mobile phone or a
personalised Flukiest email address.
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Imagestation : Sonys photo sharing offering, much better looking the Kodaks or HPs. Usual
features with printing options but also the ability to upload via your psp.
PictureTrail : Another site that is combining photo sharing and social networking. Provides
myspace style customisable profiles and some nice flash widgets to create 3d cubes of your photos, heart
shapes, slideshows, screensavers and loads more bits and bobs.
Hello : Great domain and Googles offering which is designed to work in tandem with their picasa
image organising software which they acquired. Picasa is great piece of software and helps you find
pictures you had long forgotten about. it seems that hello allows you to send images to your friends like
and instant messager or to your blogger blog.
Parazz : Parazz is a nifty looking site which offers drag and drop uploading, slideshow creation
with the option to add a soundtrack, camera phone uploads and a colour theme editor. They provide a
free version or pro version for $29 a year.
Zeec : Clean looking site with nice user galleries, offers the choice of uploading via your pc or
mac with their software or via mobile phone.
Funtigo : A site offering photo scrapbooks, users can deesign each album or Web page the way
you they like by adding text, backgrounds, clipart and animated text to their pages. Nice features and as
myspace found out, people like to customise their pages.
IMINT
IMINT And Analysis (Open source military analysis, strategic thinking, and Google Earth imagery
interpretation) http://geimint.blogspot.com/
Imagery Intelligence Part I and II http://dataink.blogspot.com/2007/03/imagery-intelligence.html
http://dataink.blogspot.com/2007/10/imagery-intelligence-part-ii.html
IMINT 101 Introduction To Imagery Intelligence http://ftp.fas.org/irp/imint/imint_101.htm
Do It Yourself Imagery Analysis
http://soobdujour.blogspot.com/2008/01/do-it-yourself-imagery-analysis.html
HUMINT, IMINT, MASINT, SIGINT, OSINT: Finding What Shouldn’t Be Found
http://risrecbooks.blogspot.com/2008/02/humint-imint-masint-sigint-osint.html
Satellite Sensors (Learn more about each sensor and view sample satellite imagery)
ALOS
ASTER
CARTOSAT-1
CBERS-2
FORMOSAT-2
GeoEye-1
IKONOS
LANDSAT 7
QuickBird
SPOT-5
WorldView-1
Counter IMINT: The Syrian Deception
http://verificationthoughts.blogspot.com/2008/05/syrian-deception.html
Information Dominance/Operations
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Intelligence Resources
Ad-Aware http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
Analyzer http://analyzer.polito.it/30alpha/
Bugnosis http://www.bugnosis.org/
Cybercrime http://www.cybercrime.gov/
CERT http://www.cert.org/
Hacker and Spyware Protection http://www.looknstop.com/En/index2.htm
Email Security and Privacy http://www.stealthmessage.com/
Home Network Security http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/home_networks.html
Privacy and Security http://www.markusjansson.net/eienbid.html
Lavasoft http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
Leak Test http://grc.com/lt/leaktest.htm
Setting up Security Zones http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/using/howto/security/setup.mspx
Shields Up http://grc.com/su-firewalls.htm
Anti Spyware Tools http://www.spychecker.com/home.html
Spyware Reviews http://removespyware.net/
Guide to Online Privacy http://www.cdt.org/privacy/guide/basic/topten.html
Virus List http://www.viruslist.com/en/index.html
WebWasher http://www.webwasher.com/
Snooper http://snoop.cdt.org/
Security Advisers http://www.wilders.org/
Spyware and Adware Removal http://www.paretologic.com/xoftspy/lp/14/
Top Secret Software http://www.topsecretsoftware.com/index.html
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Internet Detective a free online tutorial designed to help students develop the critical thinking
required for their Internet research. The tutorial offers practical advice on evaluating the quality of
websites and highlights the need for care when selecting online information sources.
http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/detective/
Intute http://www.intute.ac.uk/
INTUTE: Virtual Training Suite http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/
LearnHigher http://www.learnhigher.ac.uk/
Interpol
Iranian Military
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WMD Related Facilities (cut and paste geographic coordinates into google earth for good
locations of facilities) http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/nuclear/iranmap.html
Iran Resources http://www.aftabdaily.net/
Irans Nuclear Network http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6979727/
Iranian Nuclear Facilities http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/iran/nuke-fac.htm
Iranian Nuclear Facilities Video
http://www.farsitube.com/videos/Political/Iranian_Nuclear_Facilities
Iranian Warships http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iran/ships.htm
Naval Bases http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iran/navy-base.htm
Excellent Blog on Iranian Naval Capabilities
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1790191/posts
Iran Defence http://www.irandefence.net/showthread.php?t=4808
How Iran Would Apply its Assymetric Naval Warfare Doctrine in The Future Conflict
http://www.marshallcenter.org/site-graphic/lang-en/page-occpapers-research-
1/static/xdocs/research/static/occpapers/occ-paper_10-en.pdf
Ammunition And Metallurgy Industries Group http://www.diomil.ir/en/amig.aspx
Spy Photos Reveal 'Secret Launch Site' For Iran's Long-Range Missiles
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article3724048.ece
Open Source Readings On Iran
http://uskowioniran.blogspot.com/2008/04/open-source-readings-on-iran.html
Tehran Nuclear Research Center
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/iran/tehran-tnrc.htm
Satellite Imagery of the Tehran Nuclear Research Center
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/iran/tehran-tnrc-imagery.htm
Iraninan Websites
Kamangir.net http://kamangir.net/
Links To Iranian Websites http://clibrary.um.ac.ir/iranianwebsites.htm
http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/GenerateContent?CONTENT_ITEM_ID=24062&CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE=
0&MENU_ID=260
Toronto Iranians http://www.torontoiranians.com/modules/mylinks/
Iranian Link http://www.angelfire.com/pe/iran/
Excellent Blog on Iranian Naval Capabilities
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1790191/posts
Iranian Blogs http://www.iraniansblogs.com/
Iraq
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http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2003/030411-d-6570c-002.pdf
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2003/iraq-030412-centcom03.htm
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2003/05/iraq-030515-centcom_top55.htm
Target Iraq http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/iraq.htm
The Iraqi Resistance (very controversial sites, you may be offended)
http://www.albasrah.net/images/moqawama/index1.htm
http://www.albasrah.net/
Iraq Daily http://www.iraqdaily.com/
Future of Iraq Portal http://www.justinalexander.net/iraq/index.html
U.S. Military Facilities in Iraq http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/iraq-intro.htm
Iraqi Insurgent Sniper Training http://www.military.com/ppt/iraqi_insurgent_sniper_training.htm
OIF Items of Interest http://www.psywarrior.com/OpnIraqiFreedomcont1.html
http://www.psywarrior.com/OpnIraqiFreedomcont2.html
http://www.psywarrior.com/OpnIraqiFreedomcont3.html
Iraq War News http://www.indybay.org/international/iraq/
Iraq Watch http://www.iraqwatch.org/index.html
Jihad in Iraq: Hope and Dangers
https://www.opensource.gov/portal/server.pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_0_200_240_51_43/http%3B/apps.ope
nsource.gov%3B7011/opensource.gov/content/Display/4727998/GMP20040728000229001.pdf
The Fight For Iraq: A Regional Powerplay http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17722026
U.S. Embassy Iraq http://eyeball-series.org/usemb-iq/usemb-iq.htm
Multi National Security Transition Command - Iraq The Multi-National Security Transition
Command - Iraq (MNSTC-I) Mission is to assist the Iraqi Government in the development, organization,
training, equipping, and sustainment of Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) and ministries capable of defeating
terrorism and providing a stable environment in which representative government, individual freedom, the
rule of law, and the free market economy can evolve and which, in time, will contribute to Iraq's external
security and the security of the Gulf Region. http://www.mnstci.iraq.centcom.mil/
Alive In Baghdad http://www.aliveinbaghdad.org/
An Introduction To The Country And People
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/2003/iraq-intro-handbook_usmc-dec2003.pdf
Humanitarian Information Center For Iraq
http://www.humanitarianinfo.org/iraq/psw_satellites/mosul/index.asp
Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction
http://www.sigir.mil/reports/QuarterlyReports/Oct07/pictures.aspx
Iraqi Army http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_Army
Sacred Sites Of Iraq http://www.sacredsites.com/middle_east/iraq/iraq.html
Islam/Islamic Websites
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Israel
Israel's Dimona Nuclear Weapons Factory In 3D, and other Israeli videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbjgDERSuiI
New Weapon To Get Terrorists http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv7Kn0mOTsE&feature=related
Israeli Blogs http://www.ringsurf.com/ring/ilblogs/
http://judaism.about.com/od/israeliblogs/Israeli_Blogs.htm
Israeli Special Forces http://www.isayeret.com/
Israeli Military Facilities http://cryptome.org/idf/idf-eyeball.htm
Soreq Nuclear Research Center http://cryptome.org/soreq-eyeball.htm
Israel Signal Facilities http://cryptome.org/ilsig-eyeball.htm
Gaza Strip http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/gaza_strip_may_2005.jpg
http://cryptome.org/kerem/kerem-eyeball.htm
Israel Intelligence Agencies http://www.fas.org/irp/world/israel/index.html
Mossad http://www.mossad.gov.il/Mohr
Mossad English Version
http://www.mossad.gov.il/Mohr/MohrTopNav/MohrEnglish/MohrAboutUs/
Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs http://www.jcpa.org/brief/brief-list.htm#te
Israeli Air Force Intelligence Unit http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=279277445708481896
Israel/Lebanon Conflict http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/07/israellebanon_c.html
Israel/Palestinian ProCon http://www.israelipalestinianprocon.org/
Israel Science And Technology
http://www.science.co.il/Transportation-Companies.asp?s=software
Israel Defense Forces
http://www.sap.com/platform/netweaver/pdf/CS_Israeli_Defense_Forces.pdf
Export And International Cooperation Institue
http://www.export.gov.il/Eng/_Articles/Article.asp?ArticleID=3363&CategoryID
What Would An Israeli Ground Invasion Look Like
http://www.mcculloughsite.net/stingray/2006/07/17/what-would-an-israeli-ground-invasion-look-like.php
Gisrael Digital Mapping http://www.gisrael.co.il/
Israeli Torture Prison http://eyeball-series.org/facility-1391/facility-1391.htm
Language Training
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Shield 4492: Search, Find, Investigate (more than 1,600 links to free open source Internet sites
that are useful in developing investigative leads, identifying assets and conducting research. Please read
disclaimer) http://www.shield4492.com/
Lessons Learned
Library Resources
http://www.libdex.com/
Libraries and Catalogs Worldwide http://www.library.upenn.edu/catalogs/worldwide.html
Libraries Around the World http://alexandra.di.uoa.gr/NewSite/Links/TT/OtherLibraries.html
http://journalfinder.uncg.edu/uncg/worldlibs.asp
http://www.librarytechnology.org/libwebcats/
http://www.libraryspot.com/libraries/nationallibraries.htm
http://www.ifla.org/VI/2/p2/national-libraries.htm
http://library.usask.ca/catalogs/world.html
Library Servers http://sunsite3.berkeley.edu/Libweb/
Virtual Library http://www.iisg.nl/~w3vl/
http://vlib.org/
Museums Around the World http://vlmp.museophile.com/world.html
Virtual Library Museum Pages http://vlmp.museophile.com/
New York Public Library Digital Gallery http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm
Awesome Library http://www.awesomelibrary.org/
Center For Research Libraries (The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is a consortium of North
American universities, colleges and independent research libraries. The consortium acquires and
preserves newspapers, journals, documents, archives and other traditional and digital resources
for research and teaching) http://www.crl.edu/content.asp?l1=1
Library Search Engines http://www.allsearchengines.com/libraries.html
LibraryThing http://www.librarything.com/
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AFRICOM http://www.africom.mil/index.asp
EUCOM http://www.eucom.mil/english/index.asp
SOUTHCOM http://www.southcom.mil/appssc/index.php
PACOM http://www.pacom.mil/index.shtml
CENTCOM http://www.centcom.mil/sites/uscentcom2/default.aspx
CENTCOM Area of Responsibility Interactive Map
http://www.centcom.mil/sites/uscentcom2/Misc/centcom_aor.aspx
SOCOM http://www.socom.mil/
STRATCOM http://www.stratcom.mil/
TRANSCOM http://www.transcom.mil/
US Geological Survey manages and distributes many kinds of maps. The following links provide a
wealth of information about USGS maps.
Information about the many kinds of US Geological Survey maps available is at
http://erg.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/booklets/usgsmaps/usgsmaps.html#Top
Information about US Geological Survey topographic (topo) map symbols is at
http://erg.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/booklets/symbols/
An explanation of map scale is at http://erg.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/factsheets/fs01502.html
Information about US Geological Survey topographic map standards is at
http://nationalmap.gov/gio/standards/
More information about map datums on USGS topographic maps is available at the following
links: http://geology.er.usgs.gov/eespteam/GISLab/Cyprus/datums.htm
http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/faq.shtml#WhatNAD
USGS Store http://store.usgs.gov/b2c_usgs/b2c/start/(xcm=r3standardpitrex_prd)/.do
Geospatial Data Navigator (password required) https://gdn.geointel.nga.mil/gdn/gdn.cgi?
Army Geospatial Center http://www.agc.army.mil/tio/index.html
GIS For Dummies http://www.dmos.info/eng/GIS%20For%20Dummies.pdf
Soviet Maps http://www.sovietmaps.com/index.htm
Maps Of War http://www.mapsofwar.com/
Maps and Driving Directions http://www.reverse-lookup.com/maps.htm
Maps and References http://www.cgrer.uiowa.edu/servers/servers_references.html
CIA World Fact Book http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
Leading source of land information. Note: Learn to use this one and you’ll be quite impressed.
http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/
Free Aerial Maps. Note: Learn to use and you’ll get great results.
http://www.sightquest.com/travel/free-aerial-maps-3838.htm
Free GIS http://freegis.org/
ESRI ArcGIS http://www.esri.com/
Free Books On GIS Best Practices http://www.esri.com/showcase/best-practices/index.html
GIS in the Earth Sciences & Map Library http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/gis.html
Latitude/Longitude Distance Calculation http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~cvm/latlongdist.html
Latitude-Longitude of US Cities http://www.realestate3d.com/gps/latlong.htm
Maps of Countries and Territories http://www.sitesatlas.com/Maps/index.htm
The Map Library http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/maplib/maplib.htm
What do Map Scales Represent http://id.water.usgs.gov/reference/map_scales.html
MapMachine http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/
Mapquest http://www.mapquest.com/
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Medical Intelligence
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Military Magazines
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http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2004/RAND_MG210.pdf
Small Wars Journal (lots of reference material on MOUT) http://www.smallwarsjournal.com/
The Urban Operations Journal http://urbanoperations.8media.org/
Street Smart: Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield for Urban Operations
http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1287/index.html
Small Wars Center of Excellence http://www.smallwars.quantico.usmc.mil/sw_manual.asp
Small Wars Registered User http://www.smallwars.quantico.usmc.mil/RegsiteredUser.pdf
Unrestricted Warfare http://www.jhuapl.edu/urw_symposium/pages/proceedings.htm
Irregular Warfare Special Study
http://merln.ndu.edu/archive/DigitalCollections/IrregWarfareSpecialStudy.pdf
Irregular Warfare Specialty Track http://www.usma.edu/dmi/irregular_warfare.htm
A Ner Era Of Irregular Warfare
http://www.usma.edu/dmi/IWmsgs/A%20Canadian%20Perspective%20of%20Irregular%20Warfare.pdf
Irregular Military http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irregular_military
The U.S. Army And Irregular Warfare http://www.wooster.edu/history/jgates/book-contents.html
History Of Irregular Warfare
http://www.sais-jhu.edu/programs/ir/strategic/courses/docs/irregular_warfare_syllabus.pdf
Some Thoughts On Irregular Warfare https://www.cia.gov/csi/studies/96unclass/iregular.htm
Complex Irregular Warfare
http://www.fpri.org/enotes/20060106.military.hoffman.complexirregularwarfare.html
Small Wars Journal http://smallwarsjournal.com/index.php
Small Wars Journal Research Links http://smallwarsjournal.com/research/#OnlineJournalFree
Minimanual Of The Urban Guerilla http://news.skilluminati.com/?p=33
Chinese Report On Unrestricted Warfare http://news.skilluminati.com/?p=14
Counterinsurgency Army Web Page
https://www.us.army.mil/suite/page/451386?c=YmVuLmJlbmF2aWRlcw==
Unrestricted Wrafare Symposium 2007
http://www.jhuapl.edu/urw_symposium/pages/proceedings/2007/chapters/URW%202007%20Book.pdf
http://www.jhuapl.edu/urw_symposium/pages/proceedings2007.htm
Unrestricted Warfare http://www.cryptome.org/cuw.htm
Small Wars And Low Intensity Conflicts Currently Taking Place Throughout The World
http://mediavillage.net/test/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2299&mode=th
read&order=0&thold=0
Missile Threat
Muslim Brotherhood
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Search for organisations in our database of 393 AlertNet member organisations from 92
countries. http://www.alertnet.org/member_directory.htm
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http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/currentconflicts/a/koreanmilitary_2.htm
North Korean News http://www.kcna.co.jp/index-e.htm
North Korean Nuclear Test Sites
http://web.stratfor.com/images/asia/map/N_Korea-Nuke-test-5.jpg
http://cryptome.org/dprk-test.htm
The Nuclear-Armed Planet http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12269198/
State Department Notes http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2792.htm
Background Note North Korea
http://militaryhistory.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ/Ya&sdn=militaryhistory&cdn=education&t
m=12&gps=115_9_1148_694&f=10&tt=14&bt=0&bts=0&zu=http%3A//www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2792.ht
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North Korea Special Weapons Guide
http://militaryhistory.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ/Ya&sdn=militaryhistory&cdn=education&t
m=159&gps=155_5_1148_694&f=10&tt=14&bt=0&bts=0&zu=http%3A//www.fas.org/nuke/guide/dprk/inde
x.html
Short Video Clips http://www.vbs.tv/shows/north-korea/
North Korea On The Precipe Of Famine
http://www.petersoninstitute.org/publications/pb/pb08-6.pdf
The North Korean Food Crisis http://www.iie.com/events/event_detail.cfm?EventID=70
North Korea Special Collection http://cns.miis.edu/research/korea/
Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yongbyon_Nuclear_Scientific_Research_Center
Nuclear Weapons Program http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/dprk/nuke/index.html
Nuclear Overview http://www.nti.org/e_research/profiles/NK/Nuclear/index.html
Country Assessments: Korean Peninsula http://www.isis-online.org/publications/dprk/index.html
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Nuclear Terrorism
The Virtual Nuclear Tourist (Includes Individual State Maps of Nuclear Waste Transportation
Routes) How much easier can we make it? http://www.nucleartourist.com/
Create your own blast map by simply entering a zip code
http://www.nuclearterror.org/blastmaps.html
Video footage of nuclear explosions http://nuclearfiles.org/revideos/filmindex2.html
Links http://www.nuclearterror.org/links.html
Nuclear Weapon Effects Calculator
http://www.fas.org/main/content.jsp?formAction=297&contentId=367
Oil
Bibliography for the Study of Oil and War http://www.endgame.org/oilwars-biblio.htm
World Oil Market and Oil Price Chronologies: 1970 – 2003
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/chron.html
Oil Demand
http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/analysis_publications/oil_market_basics/Demand_text.htm
Energy Review http://archive.wn.com/2004/07/21/1400/energyreview/
OPEC http://www.opecnews.com/
PeakOil http://www.peakoil.org/
The Oil Wars: Parts 1 and 2 http://www.angelfire.com/ab/trogl/oilwar/
http://www.angelfire.com/ab/trogl/oilwar/part2.html
World Energy "Areas To Watch" http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/hot.html
Online Services
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The Intelligence Network: IntellNet is dedicated to providing individuals and groups aggregated
news and documents from around the world in an easy-to-access and understand format. Founded in
early 2000 as a private project to more easily disseminate information, during the 4 years since its
creation IntellNet proved itself to be a great source of knowledge. With today's re-launch, The Intelligence
Network will stand upon the shoulders of giants in order to see further and push higher; expanding upon
the very foundations of the U.S. Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) community. http://www.intellnet.org/
Space War Your World At War
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Open_Source_Intelligence_999.html
Utilization Of Internet Tools And Resources For Open Source Intelligence
http://www.onstrat.com/osint/
IntelliBriefs http://intellibriefs.blogspot.com/2006_03_19_archive.html
Global Intelligence http://www.isria.info/index2.php
Strategy Page http://www.strategypage.com/default.asp
Sources And Methods
http://sourcesandmethods.blogspot.com/2008/01/bahraini-foreign-minister-speaks-iiss.html
SITE Intelligence Group Monitoring Service ("By monitoring terrorist and extremist websites and
penetrating password-protected Al Qaeda linked sites, SITE provides a state-of-the-art intelligence
service to both practitioners and analysts to understand the adversary." - Rohan Gunaratna, Author,
Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror (Columbia University Press) Studying the primary source
propaganda, training manuals, and chatter of terrorists offers insight into terrorists and their activities that
can not be obtained anywhere else. Failing to monitor terrorist propaganda is a failure in intelligence. To
fulfill this need, the SITE Intelligence Group offers its Monitoring Service, which provides numerous daily
translations of terrorist propaganda and multimedia from primary source terrorist websites.)
http://www.siteintelgroup.org/
Open Source Intelligence: A Strategic Enabler Of National Security
http://se1.isn.ch/serviceengine/FileContent?serviceID=PublishingHouse&fileid=B5D36B62-0E20-BC0B-
DD2E-C12E73D54892&lng=en
Utilization Of Internet Tools And Resources For Open Source Intelligence (awesome site for the
open source analyst) http://www.onstrat.com/osint/
National Virtual Translation Center (The National Virtual Translation Center (NVTC) was
established in February, 2003 " for the purpose of providing timely and accurate translations of foreign
intelligence for all elements of the Intelligence Community.) http://www.nvtc.gov/
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Open-source technology alternatives. All of the following are free for download online.
(Note there are no virus or spyware protection programs listed; commercial companies like Symantec and
McAffee still offer the best security for a Windows computer).
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• Some Web sites, made specifically for Explorer, won't load at all.
Counterpart: Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, free online at microsoft.com.
Organized Crime
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Pakistan
People Finder
ZabaSearch http://www.zabasearch.com/
ZoomInfo http://www.zoominfo.com/
IceRocket http://www.icerocket.com/
Spock http://www.spock.com/
PeekYou http://www.peekyou.com/
Pipl http://pipl.com/
Wink http://wink.com/
Piracy
International Maritime Bureau Piracy Reporting Center
http://www.icc-ccs.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=30&Itemid=12
Piracy Map 2005 http://www.icc-
ccs.org/index.php?option=com_fabrik&view=visualization&controller=visualization.googlemap&Itemid=10
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Piracy Map 2006 http://www.icc-
ccs.org/index.php?option=com_fabrik&view=visualization&controller=visualization.googlemap&Itemid=10
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Piracy Map 2007 http://www.icc-
ccs.org/index.php?option=com_fabrik&view=visualization&controller=visualization.googlemap&Itemid=10
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Piracy Map 2008 http://www.icc-
ccs.org/index.php?option=com_fabrik&view=visualization&controller=visualization.googlemap&Itemid=89
Piracy Map 2009 http://www.icc-
ccs.org/index.php?option=com_fabrik&view=visualization&controller=visualization.googlemap&Itemid=21
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Piracy News http://www.icc-
ccs.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=60&Itemid=51
USCG Ship Traffic Density Plot http://www.amver.com/density.asp
Ports Worldwide
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Propaganda (anti-U.S.)
Rail
Amtrak http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=Amtrak/HomePage
Federal Railroad Administration http://www.fra.dot.gov/
Freight World http://www.freightworld.com/railroads.html
Metra Rail http://www.metrarail.com/
Military Rails http://military.railfan.net/
New York City Transit http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/nyct/
North American Passenger and Urban Transit
http://www.railserve.com/Passenger/North_America/
Freight Product Information by State http://www.tomorrowsrailroads.org/industry/moving.cfm
Short Line Railroads http://www.uprr.com/customers/shortline/lines/index.shtml
Railroads Page http://www.tours.com/railroads.php
Rail Industry Links http://www.railindustry.com/industry/pages/
Reference/Research Tools
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ProQuest http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb
Translating Dictionaries http://dictionaries.travlang.com/
Word Reference http://wordreference.com/
World Fact Book http://worldfactbook.com/
Your Dictionary http://yourdictionary.com/
Encyclopedia Of The Orient http://i-cias.com/e.o/index.htm
Reference Desk: The Single Best Source For Facts http://refdesk.com/
Reference, Facts Look-up, & Library Resources http://www.harrold.org/rfhextra/referenc.html
Adherents http://www.adherents.com/
Major Religions of the World http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html
Religion Studies http://www.foreignpolicy.com/resources/links.php?cat=35
Russia
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Factbites (A search engine that is calibrated for searchers rather than for surfers. I don't want to
find the hottest web site about Britney Spears; I want information on best practices for call centers, or
background on the California mortgage industry.) http://www.factbites.com/
Intelways (Intelways.com, formerly CrossEngine and before that, mrSAPO, isn't a metasearch
engine; you type in your query and then select which search engine to use. Intelways provides one-click
access to around 300 different search tools, organised by broad channels.) http://www.intelways.com/
Alt Search Engines http://altsearchengines.com/archives/
http://altsearchengines.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/the-top-100-alternative-search-engines-
november-2007.pdf
Goshme http://beta3.goshme.com/
Taya It (Arabic) Tayait offers their users the ability to search in the following language modes:
Morphological Search: Results include all inflictions of the keyword. Expanded Search: Results include
all derivatives of the keyword. Synonyms (Thesaurus): Return all synonyms and dialectical variants.
Cross Language: The ability to input English words to search through Arabic Documents Phrase: The
ability to link multiple keywords more loosely or tightly. http://www.tayait.com/
YamLi (Arabic) http://www.yamli.com/
Ayna (Arabic) http://www.ayna.com/
Araby (Arabic) http://www.araby.com/
Le Moteur (French) http://lemoteur.orange.fr/
Carrot Clustering Engine An open source search-results-clustering engine, just recently out in
beta. In a nutshell, it takes search results, analyzes them and, on the fly, creates groups of the most
common concepts or terms from those results. Since this is all done by algorithms rather than by humans,
expect the odd result every once in a while. (BatesInformation Services, www.BatesInfo.com/tip.html)
http://demo.carrot2.org/demo-stable/main
Tianamo has developed a visually search engine that represents your search results as a terrain
map. You decide if it has utility. http://search.tianamo.com/index2.php
Semantics – in a nutshell, the study of words. Great site of 302 semantic web videos and
podcasts. http://www.semanticfocus.com/blog/entry/title/302-semantic-web-videos-and-podcasts/
Secret Armies
Secure Email
Shopping Malls
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Social Networking
Social networking sites can be especially useful for the analyst. Many of the sites are used by
terrorists, gangs, criminals and others with less than honorable intentions. Careful analysis of these open
source worlds can yield intelligence you never knew existed. Like a jigsaw puzzle, you may have to visit
several sites (as the enemy does to post bits and pieces of information so as to not leave a trail) to bring it
all together. This is the heart of analysis: bringing it all together to monitor the beat. More to be added
later.
Top Ten http://social-networking-websites-review.toptenreviews.com/
List Of Social Networking Sites http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites
Granted there are many units out there that do not have the budget to buy or subscribe to
expensive analytical software, but this should not stop the analyst from doing his/her work. There are
abundant resources of freebies that when used in conjunction with each other provide just as powerful
analytical capabilities. I actually view this as a heavy plus. When we use expensive commercial versions
of analytical software that give instantaneous analysis/gratification we tend to depend too much on the
outcome and in many cases take the results for granted. When we do this we cheat ourselves from doing
our own critical thinking and critical analysis. However, by taking advantage of the free community
versions and using them together we force ourselves to do more critical thinking/analysis because we are
trying to determine what information to input into one program based on the output of another program.
Silobreaker (for those familiar with Analyst Notebook, I think you’ll like this)
http://www.silobreaker.com/
Evolution (It has applications in forensic investigations, law enforcement, intelligence operations,
identity fraud, and identity verification processes). Download the free community edition. It is not as
powerful as the commercial version, which is also very expensive, but has great utility when used in
conjunction with other free sites like Silobreaker. http://www.paterva.com/web2/
A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods (If you've ever wondered how to model something, or
were looking for new ideas for segmenting and presenting complex concepts, this is an incredible online
resource. A neat graphical explanation and example of each "element" (ex; a cycle diagram) appears as
soon as your cursor scrolls over them. For instance, they've color-coded their categories: data, metaphor,
concept, strategy, information, and compound visualisation techniques. As if that were not enough to
spark your brain, the creators also provide clues as to whether the model works best for convergent or
divergent thinking, and whether it is more for an overview vs. detailed perspective.)
http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html
Sentinel Visualizer (for those of you who have experience with Crime Link and Analyst Notebook
this one should be quite interesting. You can download a 45-day fully functional with all the bells and
whistles copy and take it for a spin, and at the same time train yourself to use the software. It may come
in handy down the road and you can always say you know how to use it) http://www.fmsasg.com/
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Army Study Guide – Earn Promotion Points and Advance Your Career (This site provides FREE
U.S. Army Board Study Guide Resources to help you prepare for the various U.S. Army Boards and has
done so since 1999. I know this category does not fit into the overall scheme but if I can help out
however small, so be it http://www.armystudyguide.com/
Deployment Tools http://www.dcswift.com/military/tools.html
The Online Battle Book http://www.dcswift.com/military/links.html
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Sudan
Suicide Bombers
Taiwan
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Technology Theft/Transfer
Terrorism
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http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/site/home/default.asp
Terrorism News (News on Terrorism continually updated from thousands of sources around the
net.) http://www.topix.net/news/terrorism
Terrorism Funding
Terrorist Targets
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Terrorist Websites
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Tracerouting
Transportation
Tunnels
UAVs
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Venezuela
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Water Conflict
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Weather
Miscellaneous
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My favorite search engines, and I’m sure you have your favorites, are the Copernic Suite followed by
Google and then others. I use them extensively and use them to my advantage when doing research and
I just don’t have the time to sit in front of the computer and type in all the keywords. First let me start with
the Copernic Suite. It is comprised of Copernic Agent Professional, Copernic Tracker and Copernic
Summarizer. Tracker and summarizer are exactly what the titles imply. The tracker keeps track of
websites and alerts you when there are changes to it. Summarizer will take an article and summarize it to
a more manageable article; and you determine the number of words in the summarized article. The
following applies to copernic agent professional and how to customize it to work for you.
You’ll notice on the graphic below how I have formatted my copy. On the right side is a box where folders
are created as I have done. In the top center are the keywords I used for the Iran folder in the box at right.
I have programmed the engine to do automatic searches at 0800 every day (by this time I have had my
first cup of coffee and just waiting for all the results to come in). You also will notice that on the search
term “Iranian military capabilities” there is a number 24 in parenthesis. These are the new results that
came in at 0800, so you will always know about new results. Just below the box with the keywords are all
the hits that came in. The green check mark indicates that it is a valid link. Now look at the left hand side
in the quick search box and you should notice that I have 1005 search engines enabled. With these many
search engines enabled you should be able to pin down what you’re looking for.
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Let’s now look at Google and see how it can be customized to work for you. What you’re looking at now is
the traditional page. On the upper right is the “sign in” link. Click on this link to establish an account. Once
you establish an account click on the news link to go to the personalized news page.
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Clicking on the news link brings up the following page. You’ll notice on the left hand side where I have
established all keywords of interest to me. I have included all the classical “INTS’ along with some others
of interest. Clicking on a keyword, for example “explosively formed projectiles”, brings up the latest search
on that term. I use the same keywords in Copernic above because the results are not always the same
for both search engines. By using two search engines to do my bidding I stand a better chance of getting
a plethora of results and thus more solid news from around the world.
My keywords
Click here to personalize your page.
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Things move so fast on the Internet that sometimes the information you are looking for has been removed
or changed. Using Google's Cached Links and the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine can help you find
what you are looking for even if the content is no longer online.
1. If you know that the information you are searching for is no longer online, go to Google.com.
2. Enter as much information as you can into Google's search field and hit enter.
3. When your search results appear, find the result with the most appropriate description and click on the
link at the bottom left of the result that says "Cached." This will open a snapshot of the Web page that
Google took as it was indexing it.
Clicking on the cached link may also be useful if you ever click on a search result link that doesn't work.
4. If you don't know exactly what you are looking for or are curious about a previous version of a Web
page, go to web.archive.org to search the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, an archive of 85 billion
Web pages dating back to 1996.
5. Type the URL of the Web site you want to see and click "Take Me Back." This will bring up a collection
of archived pages from that Web site, organized by year.
Cached Links may not be available for all Web sites and less popular Web sites may not be included in
the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
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History
Quincy Wright, “Project for a World Intelligence Center” (1957)
Al Gray, “Global Intelligence Challenges of the 1990’s” (1988-1989)
Robert Steele, Critique of CIA/FBIS OSINT Plan (1989, Still Valid in 2006)
USMC, OSINT Program Debate History (1989-1995)
Robert Steele, “E3i: Ethics, Ecology, Evolution, & Intelligence: An Alternative Paradigm” (1992)
Robert Steele, “God, Man, and Information: Comments to INTERVAL In-House” (1993)
Robert Steele, “Creating a Smart Nation” (1996)
Robert Steele, “The OSINT Story” (2004)
Robert Steele, “Basic Lectures on Secret Intelligence Shortfalls and All-Source Reform” (2004)
Context
MCIA, “Model for Analysis of Expeditionary Environment” (1989)
MCIA, “Expeditionary Environment Strategic Generalizations” (1990)
USMC, “Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield” (1992)
Robert Steele, “OSINT: What Is It? Why Is It Important to the Military?” (1994)
Robert Steele, “Expeditionary Environment in 21st Century” (1994)
Ben Gilad, Business Blindspots (1996)
Robert Steele, “Virtual Intelligence & Information Peacekeeping” (1997)
Robert Steele, “Information Peacekeeping: The Purest Form of War” (1998)
Robert Steele, “Asymmetric Warfare and Four Forces After Next” (1998)
Robert Steele et al, “Relevant Information” (1999)
Amitai Avishalom, “Overcoming Impediments to Information Sharing” (2003)
Defense Science Board “Strategic Communication” (July 2004)
United Nations, “A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility” (2004)
Robert Steele, “Address to the Department of State” (2004)
Robert Steele, “Peacekeeping Intelligence” (2004)
Robert Steele, “Information Peacekeeping” (2004)
Robert Steele, “Questions Any National Intelligence Manager Should Be Able to Answer” (2005)
Robert Steele, “Address to the Department of Homeland Security” (2005)
Robert Steele, “Briefing for the Department of Defense” (2006)
C. K. Prahalad, The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid (2006)
Robert Steele, “Reinventing Intelligence” (2006)
Practice
Robert Steele, “Creating a Bare Bones OSINT Capability” (1994)
Jack Davis, Compendium of Analytic Tradecraft (1997)
Robert Steele,, OSINT Executive Overview (1998)
NATO Open Source Intelligence Handbook (2001)
NATO Open Source Intelligence Reader (2002)
NATO Intelligence Exploitation of the Internet (2002)
Robert Steele, “New Rules for the New Craft of Intelligence” (2002)
Robert Steele, “Peacekeeping Intelligence Leadership Digest 1.0” (2003)
Eobert Steele, “Special Operations Forces Open Source Intelligence Handbook” (DRAFT, 2004)
Robert Steele, “Primer on Public Intelligence” (2005)
Essential Individual Access & Analytic Toolkit via SILOBREAKER (2006)
Anonymous, Web Quick Links for the Military Analyst (2006)
Robert Steele, The Practice of Intelligence and Related Documents (2006)
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Robert Steele, “Commercial Imagery and Geospatial Funding at $600M a Year” (2005)
Robert Steele, “Creating a Combatant Commander Open Source Program” (2005)
Congressman Rob Simmons (R-CT-02), “Foreword” to Book on Information Operations (2006)
Media
John Perry Barlow in Forbes (2002)
Robert STEELE in TIME (2003)
Kris Alexander in WIRED (2005)
“The Power of Us” in Business Week (2005)
Reference
Annual Training Conference, Proceedings, 1992-date (less 2005, none held)
Portal Pages and Archives, www.oss.net, 1992-date
Robert Steele, Amazon Lists of Recommended Books (look at this first)
Robert Steele, Amazon Reviews (Be patient, two hours = overview of
reality
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Collection Phase
(Data Capture)
Dissemination Country Studies
Can we share? Magazines/Newspapers
How much restriction? Web
May divulge OS Television/Radio
collection capabilities. Databases
FBIS
Open Source Who’s on the ground?
Intelligence Cycle
Processing, Integration
and Guidance (Data
Analysis and Production Mining)
(Validated OSINT) Is there supporting evidence?
Can present data be
sanitized?
Do we query/task classified
“INTS”?
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* Google lets you search for a range of numbers, in any format. To include a number range in your search
query, type in the lower and upper numbers, separated by two periods - e.g., 15..50 I had a chance to try
out this feature in a real-life search; I wanted to find a set of wireless headphones on Amazon.com
costing between $50 and $100. I typed in the query (wireless OR cordless) headphones $50..$99
site:amazon.com and, sure enough, I retrieved a wide selection of wireless headphones within my price
range.
Note that Google is smart enough to recognize decimal points - some of the items I retrieved weren't an
even dollar amount but were, for example, $57.83. This feature could also come in handy if you are
looking for a mention of a range of years.
* Speaking of date-searching on Google, you can limit your search to only those pages added or changed
within the past [whatever] days. This can be a useful feature if you re-run a search regularly; just limit your
search to the pages added or modified since you last ran your search. You can do this not by adding text
in the search box but by modifying the search results page URL by adding the following text to the end of
the URL and clicking [Search]: &as_qdr=dn (where n is the number of days you want searched)
So, for example, to limit my search to the last 18 days, I would add &as_qdr=d18 to the end of the search
results page URL.
Keep in mind that this isn't a perfect date-limiting search. Some web content management systems
automatically refresh a web page frequently, without necessarily making any changes to the page. Those
pages will have a recent date but the content within them may have been unchanged for months.
* If you are based in the US, you can search for local companies through your cell phone, regardless of
whether or not your phone has web capability. If you call 1-800-GOOG411 (1-800-466-4411), you will be
asked to say the city and state you want information on - Boulder, Colorado, for example - then you say
the type of business or specific business name you want - for example, "book store" or "Barnes and
Noble". A text-to-speech program will read you the top eight results from its local search
(http://local.google.com). If you want, Google can automatically dial any of the first eight businesses'
phone number, or you can ask to have the address and phone number read to you.
You can also get quick answers to simple queries by texting Google from a US cell phone. Send a text
message to 466 453 (GOOGLE) and then type your query in the text box and send it. Within seconds,
you will receive a text message with one of Google's Quick Answers. The default is for Google to take
your query and attempt to find a Quick Answer. If you want a search of the web, put the word web at the
beginning of your search, such as web avian flu. This will return you a text message with a snippet of the
first search result, along with a link to mobile-formatted page of the search results. See
http://sms.google.com for more information on this service.
I recently discovered Intelways, a nifty way to search a number of search engines sequentially. It's not a
metasearch engine; it lets you click from one resource to another. Its main claim to fame is that it
categorizes the tools by broad type of search -- general, images, video, news, social (blogs, social
networking sites, social bookmarking sites, etc.), file-type searching, reference, academic, business, tech
and (natch) shopping. (Source: Bates Information Services, www.BatesInfo.com/tip.html )
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PowerSet.com
We have a new player in the semantic search arena; "semantic search" refers to the idea
that a better way to find the most relevant material is to not just look at word frequency,
location, links to a page and so on but to understand the sense of what is being asked and
the sense of what is on web pages, and then to match the most applicable pages. For
example, if I typed in a query for stock, a semantic search engine would see that this was in
the context of livestock, and would find other pages that have to do with animals on farms
rather than about shares of ownership in a company, flowers, or racing cars.
PowerSet uses a technology that attempts to mine meaning out of web pages -- specifically,
Wikipedia articles. This isn't a general-purpose search engine, but it is a tremendous tool if
you are looking for information on a subject that spans a number of Wikipedia articles, or
that has a number of meanings. Take "Barack Obama" as an example. There are thousands
of articles that mention Obama -- the Wikipedia article specifically about him, as well as
articles about politicians who have endorsed him, his early career, the roles of race and
religion in the US presidential campaign, and so on.
Rather than going through all of those entries, including the extensive article specifically on
Obama, head over to PowerSet and you will get a single search result that pulls together
what it judges to be the most relevant information about Barack Obama. There is a nice
summary of who he is, the key facts about his career, and a relevance-ranked list of
Wikipedia pages that mention him.
What I find particularly interesting is the "Factz" section of the page, which attempts to pull
together significant statements about Barack Obama in the Wikipedia articles. So, for
example, the Factz for Barack Obama include information that he introduced the following
pieces of legislation:
While that isn't a comprehensive list of the pieces of legislation he has introduced, these are
probably the most significant ones, since this list includes only legislation that was
mentioned in Wikipedia articles.
PowerSet is best used for those searches that cover a number of topics or areas. It's not
perfect, and it only searches Wikipedia, but I find it an exciting new approach in the efforts
of search engines to make sense out of web content. www.BatesInfo.com/tip.html
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