Steele's brain on intelligence

[Aimee Farr]

Greg Newby wrote:

> In case it's not already obvious, Steele has a clue.
> I heard him speak at H2K last year.  He's either the world's
> greatest liar, or has a tremendous background and authority
> on how the goverment handles secret and subversive activities.

Steele isn't afraid to go out on a limb to fire up a conversation. Whatever
your opinion of his ideas, he's called attention to blindspots and
destructive mythical mindsets.

The big credit infobrokers started out with humble beginnings and shoebox
files. Look at them now. Private intelligence, in all its forms, seems like
the credit information industry in the early days. My "Intellagora" (I made
up a word) and Steele's... literary references... isn't an infobroker, it
would munch AND crunch, and be very human. Is a 3-5-7-year end state
scenario with a transcontinental private thing-of-some-sort -- resulting in
establishment-displacement in ways we might not contemplate -- so
far-fetched?

Steele strikes me as a serious sentinel (i.e., "move, or move aside").

~Aimee

> On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 03:00:51PM -0500, Aimee Farr wrote:
> >
> > http://www.oss.net/Papers/white/TheNewCraftofIntelligence.doc
> > The New Craft of Intelligence
> > Robert David Steele
> > REVIEW Draft

> > o "The center of gravity for both national security and
> national prosperity
> > lie now in the private sector and its intellectual property as
> well as its
> > accumulated knowledge.  The concepts of noosphere (Pierre Tielhard de
> > Chardin) and "world brain" (H.G. Wells) are now an imminent
> reality, and the
> > World Intelligence Center envisioned by Quincy Wright is achievable."