Indeed, in 1994, one highly placed White House staffer told me that their incomprehensible crypto policies arose from being “afraid of the NSA.”. I would not automatically conclude that the pop stars in the Laurel Canyon mode were operatives and/or assets from the fact of their family lineage, which I do not dispute. Check out his Wikipedia page, bearing in mind strong CIA input into Wikipedia. No one at the CIA would be happy to hear that the only thing the President and cabinet read every morning is the OIO report. If you are connected to the internet, you are not truly secure. We offer Ms. Sunderson’s observations, stressing that Barlow’s foreshadowing of the communication functions inherent in social media and his presence at CIA headquarters (by invitation!) But there wasn’t much evidence that it was going to happen anytime soon. Facebook. “We were America’s information age enterprise in the industrial age. I was invited to speak to the Intelligence Community Collaboration Conference (a title that contained at least four ironies). How can data be digested into useful information in a system like that? Including whole article, but here are a few passages that jumped out at me. But they lacked the force to dominate their wily subordinates. If the spooks can’t analyze their own data, why call it intelligence? Hayden wondered, for example, why the director of what was supposedly one of the most sophisticated agencies in the world would have four phones on his desk. And, of course, there’s also the unlikelihood that anyone who thinks that the Department of Homeland Security is a good idea would ever entertain such a possibility. “Why Spy?” by John Perry Barlow; Forbes; 10/07/02. http://www.hippy.com/modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=243. He went on: “After World War II we were ahead of the Soviets in nuclear technology and about even with them in electronics. Steele’s conference was attended by about 600 members of the American and European intelligence establishment, including many of its senior leaders. Knowing that it’s likely to occur may be sufficient. Several of the different intelligence-reform commissions that have been convened since 1949 have called for consolidating budgetary authority under the DCI, but it has never happened. /Type /ExtGState n�3ܣ�k�Gݯz=��[=��=�B�0FX'�+������t���G�,�}���/���Hh8�m�W�2p[����AiA��N�#8$X�?�A�KHI�{!7�. This group became the largest LSD synthesizing and distributing organization in the world. Bench tested at Ascona, Switzerland after being manufactured by Germany in the 1900’s. LSD was developed by the Nazi SS and then appropriated by the agency for application to mind control. The quality of his product projected the Brotherhood of Eternal Love into its leadership role in the LSD trade. The entity I envision would be small, highly networked, and generally visible. %���� After moving to the West Coast, Leary hooked up with a group of ex-surfers, the Brotherhood of Eternal Love. Right now, we have to do something, and preferably something useful. We enter an era of asymmetrical threats, distributed over the entire globe, against which our most effective weapon is understanding. You can subscribe to e‑mail alerts from Spitfirelist.com HERE. Our existing systems for understanding the world are designed to understand a world that no longer exists. Their “chief chemist” was a curious individual named Ronald Hadley Stark. << “Let’s create a process of information digestion in which inexpensive data are gathered from largely open sources and condensed, through an open process, into knowledge terse and insightful enough to inspire wisdom in our leaders. Wikipedia can generally be handicapped to the left. And they were delighted when I returned later, bringing with me a platoon of Internet gurus, including Esther Dyson, Mitch Kapor, Tony Rutkowski, and Vint Cerf. Listener Tiffany Sunderson contributed an article in the “Comments” section that brings to the fore some interesting questions about Barlow, the CIA and the very genesis of social media. For someone whose major claim to fame was hippie song-mongering, addressing such an audience made me feel as if I’d suddenly become a character in a Thomas Pynchon novel. They base their reputations on their ability to distribute their conclusions rather than the ability to conceal them. They admitted that it might be even more dangerous to security to remain abstracted from the wealth of information that had already assembled itself there, but they had an almost mystical superstition that wires leaving the agency would also be wires entering it, a veritable superhighway for invading cyberspooks. In fact, he has control over less than 15% of the total budget, directing only the CIA. Download full-text PDF . PDF | On Jan 1, 2014, Paul E. Simonsen and others published Manson's Tropical Diseases, 23rd Edition: The Filariases | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate /CA 1 13 0 obj I then watched a Strangelovian spectacle when, during my talk, many arms crept up to cross involuntarily and were thrust back down to their sides by force of embarrassed will. stream . In the early ’90s, I was speaking to personnel from the Department of Energy nuclear labs about computer security. 5 The director of Central Intelligence (DCI) is supposed to be in charge of all the functions of intelligence. You become more powerful based on your capacity to know things that no one else does. And they were delighted when I returned later, bringing with me a platoon of Internet gurus, including Esther Dyson, Mitch Kapor, Tony Rutkowski, and Vint Cerf. This was an alien notion to them. He said he felt powerless, though he was determined not to remain that way. The same applies, in concentric circles of self-protection, to one’s team, department, section, and agency. There’s a site called Gnostic media that goes into LSD. While the guy who runs comes off as anti-Semitic, (and I definitely don’t agree with him on that point and a few others), he does go into detail on how LSD actually works. It would use off-the-shelf technology, and use it less for gathering data than for collating and communicating them. The recipe for a nuclear bomb has been generally available since 1978, when John Aristotle Phillips published plans in The Progressive. READ PAPER. This next part SCREAMS of intel’s ties to the “social media explosion.” I think this passage is what qualifies Barlow’s article as a historical doc of some value. Theories are openly advanced for examination and trial by others in the field. They didn’t see how this would be possible without compromising their security. In fact, they weren’t. We might begin by asking what intelligence should do. The operatives would be legally restricted to gathering information, with harsh penalties attached to any engagement in covert operations. /AIS false /SA true confederations, national and international organizations), 12 of which were closely linked to gender issues. /OP false Although its intentions were noble, the ’70s Church Committee had a devastating effect on this necessary part of intelligence work. This method has worked fabulously well for 500 years. After a decade of both fighting with and consulting to the intelligence community, I’ve concluded that the American intelligence system is broken beyond repair, self-protective beyond reform, and permanently fixated on a world that no longer exists. Its been written that while “protesting” the Vietnam war, he got so riled up that he strapped 25 lbs of explosives to himself, headed up to Boston and threatened to detonate it in the middle of Harvard Yard. Their systems were closed in both regards. What’s not so readily available is the plutonium and tritium, which require an entire nation to produce. It’s time to end the more traditional insanity of endlessly repeating the same futile efforts. At that time, intelligence was awakening to the Internet, the ultimate open source. Not surprisingly, people who work there believe that job security and power are defined by the amount of information one can stop from moving. Even if they do, it’s generally either Russian or some common European language. They told me they’d brought Steve Jobs in a few weeks before to indoctrinate them in modern information management. They spent their money on toys like satellite-imaging systems and big-iron computers (often obsolete by the time they’re deployed) rather than developing the organizational capacity for analyzing all those snapshots from space, or training analysts in languages other than English and Russian, or infiltrating potentially dangerous groups, or investing in the resources necessary for good HUMINT (as they poetically call information gathered by humans operating on the ground). They were cut off. The new drive is a 32-gigabyte drive that is current as of the programs and articles posted by early winter of 2016. >> “Everything the agency does had been pushed down into the components…it’s all being managed several levels below me.” In other words, the NSA had developed an immune system against external intervention. They felt unappreciated, oppressed, demoralized. I’m astonished that anyone’s astonished. Stark also operated in conjunction with the Italian intelligence/fascist milieu described in AFA #‘s 17–21. “I had been on the job for a while before I realized that I have no staff,” he complained. . Let’s attempt to turn that proposition around. From Forbes in 2002. Get the insider's guide to exploring the real Caribbean. 762 talking about this. It’s exactly how attackers get in. But the other three are serious players, and Cerf and Kapor are heavily involved with EFF. The information they do divulge is also flawed in a variety of ways. At the nerve core of The Company, five analysts sat around a large, wooden lazy Susan. After moving to the West Coast, Leary hooked up with a group of ex-surfers, the Brotherhood of Eternal Love. Being off-the-shelf, it could deploy tools while they were still state-of-the-art. Hayden recognized how excessive secrecy had damaged intelligence, and he was determined to fix it. 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When I got up to essentially sing the same song in a different key, I asked them, as a favor, not to assume that posture while I was speaking. “We are riddled with watertight information compartments,” he said. Four of these were showing the same CNN feed. But while OSINT may be a timely notion, it’s not popular in a culture where the phrase “information is power” means something brutally concrete and where sources are “owned.”. It turns out that with the exception a few individuals like Charles Manson, almost all the pop stars from Laurel Canyon in 1960’s L.A. were the sons and daughters of The Establishment. We explained to them how easy it would be to have two networks, one connected to the Internet for gathering information from open sources and a separate intranet, one that would remain dedicated to classified data. suggest that Barlow not only has strong ties to CIA but may have been involved in the conceptual genesis that spawned CIA-connected entities such as Facebook: Fascinating article by John Perry Barlow, can’t believe I haven’t seen this before. Congressional oversight would reside in the committees on science and technology (and not under the congressional Joint Committee on Intelligence). It’s time to try something that’s the right kind of crazy. And it comes with strings attached. There are, of course, problems with this proposal. You know, because the EFF is all about standing up for the little guy. Direct electronic contact between him and the consumers of his information–namely the President and National Security staff–was virtually nil. After 40 years, we are at parity in nuclear science, whereas, thanks to our open system in the study of electronics, we are decades ahead of the Russians.”. A few of its recommendations eventually were wrapped into the Intelligence Authorization Act of 2000. A more immediate problem would be keeping existing agencies from aborting the OIO as soon as someone with the power to create it started thinking it might be a good idea. A former Marine intelligence officer, Steele moved to the CIA and served three overseas tours in clandestine intelligence, at least one of them “in a combat environment” in Central America. The other problem is the “Saturn” dilemma. Whenever a message came in to, say, the Eastern Europe analyst that might be of interest to the one watching events in Latin America, he’d rip it out of the machine, put it on the turntable, and rotate it to the appropriate quadrant. You can subscribe to the comments made on programs and posts–an excellent source of information in, and of, itself HERE. Secrecy also breeds technological stagnation. In fact, fewer than 10% of the millions of satellite photographs taken have ever been seen by anybody. Much of what they get is too undigested and voluminous to be useful to someone already suffering from information overload. Later, Leary’s LSD proselytization was greatly aided by William Mellon Hitchcock, a member of the powerful Mellon family. Ever read ‘Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon’ by David McGowan. In the end, they acquiesced. They hated their primitive technology. No general laymen. ... a Caribbean operation that was deeply involved in the laundering of CIA drug money. Nonetheless, I sallied forth, confidently telling the gray throng that power lay not in concealing information but in distributing it, that the Internet would endow small groups of zealots with the capacity to wage credible assaults on nation-states, that young hackers could easily run circles around old spies. He also vowed to diminish the CIA’s competitiveness with other agencies. Perhaps this new Open Intelligence Office (OIO) could also work closely with a Clandestine Intelligence Bureau, also separate from the traditional agencies, to direct infiltrators and moles who would report their observations to the OIO through a technological membrane that would strip their identities from their findings. We maintained a closed system for nuclear design while designing electronics in the open. Timothy Leary’s early research into LSD was subsidized, to some extent, by the CIA. Nearly all of these accounts have expressed astonishment at the apparent incompetence of America’s watchdogs. They sealed us into an electronically impenetrable room to discuss the radical possibility that a good first step in lifting their blackout would be for the CIA to put up a Web site. Secretary of State Colin Powell says that he prefers “the Early Bird,” a compendium of daily newspaper stories, to the President’s Daily Brief (the CIA’s ultimate product). Program Highlights Include: CIA director Allen Dulles’ promotion of psychological research by the Agency; the work of CIA physician Dr. Sidney Gottlieb for the Agency’s Technical Services Division; connections between Stark and the kidnapping and assassination of Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro; Stark’s mysterious death in prison while awaiting trial; Leary’s connections to the milieu of the “left” CIA and the role those connections appear to have played in Leary’s flight from incarceration; the CIA’s intense interest in (and involvement with) the Haight-Ashbury scene of the 1960s. I don’t know how to deal with that one. An enigmatic, multi-lingual and well-traveled individual, Stark worked for the CIA, and appears to have been with the agency when he was making the Brotherhood’s acid. If, in 1993, you wanted to see the Soviet Union still alive and well, you’d go to Langley, where it was preserved in the methods, assumptions, and architecture of the CIA. (For those who are, understandably, surprised and/or skeptical, we discussed this at length and in detail in FTR #‘s 891 and 895.). “At the massive agency level, if I had to ask, ‘Do we need blue gizmos?’ the only person I could ask was the person whose job security depended on there being more blue gizmos.”. Annie Jacobsen’s “Operation Paperclip” has an excellent account of how the SS developed “Acid” and then handed it off to CIA after the war. If we are serious about defining reality, we might look at the system that defines reality for most of us: scientific discourse. What is to be done? Congressional oversight would reside in the committees on science and technology (and not under the congressional Joint Committee on Intelligence). /OPM 1 Another systemic deficit of intelligence lies, interestingly enough, in the area of good old-fashioned spying. Thanks to the vigorous interventions of the Clinton White House, the cult of secrecy remained unmolested. Talk about a faith-based initiative. They sealed us into an electronically impenetrable room to discuss the radical possibility that a good first step in lifting their blackout would be for the CIA to put up a Web site”. They felt forced into incompetence by information hoarding and noncommunication, both within the CIA and with other related agencies. For more than a year now, there has been a deluge of stories and op-ed pieces about the failure of the American intelligence community to detect or prevent the September 11, 2001, massacre. Now we have to do that same task in the information age, and we find ourselves less adept,” he said. Get the insider's guide to exploring the real Caribbean. Tags CIA, Drug Trafficking, Edward Snowden, Facebook, GCHQ, Jacob Appelbaum, Julian Assange, LSD, NSA, Peter Thiel, Wikileaks. ”. ”, http://www.forbes.com/asap/2002/1007/042_2.html. On the day I first visited the CIA’s “mission control” room, the analysts around the lazy Susan often turned their attention to the giant video monitors overhead. /ca 1 Beside each of them was a teletype, chattering in uppercase. 176 talking about this. Yet we are still protected by agencies geared to gazing on a single, centralized threat, using methods that optimize obfuscation. Either dad was a senior career intel officer, Military officer, or politically connected family going back hundreds of years. This dogma of secrecy is probably the most persistently damaging fallout from “the Soviet factor” at the CIA and elsewhere in the intelligence “community.” Our spooks stared so long at what Churchill called “a mystery surrounded by a riddle wrapped in an enigma,” they became one themselves. But of these, the only one with any operational force–a requirement that a public-interest declassification board be established to advise the Administration in these matters-has never been implemented. As I stock up in Dramamine pills in anticipation of the predictably revolting, myopic 50th anniversary of the so-called “Summer of Love,” it amazes me that the people who went through that haven’t developed a more circumspect, adult perspective on their experiences. The “consumers” (as they generally call policymakers) are unable to determine the reliability of what they’re getting because the sources are concealed. .”, For our purposes, his most noteworthy professional undertaking is his founding of the EFF–The Electronic Frontier Foundation. ” . Barlow introduced the Grateful Dead to Timothy Leary, who was inextricably linked with the CIA. Cheney’s campaign manager, George Wallace voter, invited to CIA headquarters in ’92 to held with their tech ops, founder of the EFF–very supportive of Eddie the Friendly Spook Snowden (the peach-fuzz fascist) and Julian “Alt-Right” Assange (who played a significant role in the elevation of the Trumpenkampfverbande, collaborating with Roger Stone)–all of this suggests that Barlow was, and is, an operative. Whereas the so-called counterculture was an outgrowth of programs developed by the intelligence community, the bulk of its alumni are charter members of the “un-intelligence community”: Say, what’s the latest from Jerry Garcia? The visual impairment of our multitudinous spookhouses has long been the least secret of their secrets. I’ve always had spooky feelings about Cerf, Dyson, and Kapor. %PDF-1.7 His last essay for Forbes ASAP was “The Pursuit of Emptiness,” in Big Issue VI: The Pursuit of Happiness. The other primary speaker was Air Force Lt. General Mike Hayden, the newly appointed director of the NSA. The unofficial al Qaeda Web site, http://www.almuhajiroun.com, is considerably more revealing. Although their finished products rarely make explicit use of what’s been gleaned from the media, analysts routinely turn there for information. . Scientists toil to create systems to make all the information available to one immediately available to all. I imagine this entity staffed initially with librarians, journalists, linguists, scientists, technologists, philosophers, sociologists, cultural historians, theologians, economists, philosophers, and artists‑a lot like the original CIA, the OSS, under “Wild Bill” Donovan.