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. I didn’t expect a warm recep­tion, but it wasn’t as if I was inter­view­ing for a job. �V��)g�B�0�i�W��8#�8wթ��8_�٥ʨQ����Q�j@�&�A)/��g�>'K�� �t�;\�� ӥ$պF�ZUn����(4T�%)뫔�0C&�����Z��i���8��bx��E���B�;�����P���ӓ̹�A�om?�W= The whole hip­pie/­counter-cul­ture man­i­fes­ta­tion WAS a damned “op,” how­ev­er. Their short­com­ings go back 50 years, when they were still pre­sum­ably effi­cient but some­how failed to detect sev­er­al mil­lion Chi­nese mil­i­tary “vol­un­teers” head­ing south into Korea. << This is not to say that many of them weren’t oper­a­tives and/or assets. We told them that infor­ma­tion exchange was a barter sys­tem, and that to receive, one must also be will­ing to share. Wall­ner want­ed to know if I would be will­ing to drop by, have a look around, and dis­cuss my ideas with a few folks. Where I expect­ed to see com­put­ers, there were tele­type machines. If you think it will cure addic­tion to Hero­in, it will trick you into think­ing you’re off Hero­in. That said, I draw a clear dis­tinc­tion between the insti­tu­tions of intel­li­gence and the folks who staff them. John Per­ry Bar­low is cofounder of the Elec­tron­ic Fron­tier Foun­da­tion. 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.