Synopsis

"Open-source” intelligence has long been regarded as a valid form of intelligence collection-- widely used by intelligence agencies, particularly Chinese intelligence. The beauty--or the danger-- of open source is this: if you draw on the equivalent of data 2 and data 3 from open source materials, add them together and conclude “5”-- you may uncover information that is classified.

This book examines 15 secret intelligence cases—recent and hot— culled from the files of the ADI [Association for the Right to Information] on-line journal, Intelligence, using open source collection. Regarded as the bible for conspiracy theorists the world over, Intelligence is avidly read in intelligence agencies because it is so rich in insider information. [Over 50 intelligence agencies worldwide are on its subscriber list.]

These articles unveil the machinations of governments and the secret services behind headline grabbing events -- or those which merit headlines -- and inquiries -- but have not been dealt them -- yet. This book offers a shocking insight into frequently illicit and routinely immoral undertakings whose harm to individuals, groups and countries is seldom recognized or understood by the public at large. Truly, the inside track.

ISBN: 0-932863-42-6

About the Author

Olivier Schmidt is an associate of the ADI (Association de droit a l/information), for which he founded and directed all publications, including Parapolitics, Intelligence Newsletter and the current ADI journal, Intelligence. He was guest speaker at a “Datanet Security” conference in Miami along with former NSA Counsel Stewart Baker and the first woman CIA Deputy Director, Ruth Davis, and “designated contradictor” at the Western Europe Union intelligence conference in Paris with the former French DGSE foreign intelligence chief Admiral Pierre Lacoste and the “political father” of the French atomic bomb, Jacques Baumel. He holds US, British and French degrees in logic and information sciences, and enjoys dual nationality, American and French. His family members served in the armed forces of both countries.