Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Spying, 9-11, and Why We Continue to Screw Up

Presented at The Fifth HOPE (2004), July 10, 2004, 10 p.m. (Unknown duration)

Two 30 minute PowerPoint slide shows will be presented, followed by as much discussion as desired. The first, "9-11, U.S. Intelligence, and the Real World," will discuss the specifics of how we failed and why we will continue to fail. The second, "The Failure of 20th Century Intelligence," will discuss the specifics of how American intelligence has blown it in collection, in processing, in analysis, in leadership, and in mindset. If desired, for those who last into the night, other briefs will be available, including "New Rules for the New Craft of Intelligence" and "The Literature of Intelligence: Why People Hate Us and Why We Don't Get It."


Presenters:

  • Robert David Steele as Robert Steele
    Robert Steele is the author of On Intelligence: Spies and Secrecy in an Open World and The New Craft of Intelligence: Personal, Public, & Political. He is the founder and CEO of OSS.Net, a global intelligence partnership and network that excels at both teaching and performing legal ethical intelligence collection, processing, and analysis. In the course of a 25 year national security career, Robert has served as a Marine Corps infantry officer and service level plans officer; fulfilled clandestine, covert action, and technical collection duties; been responsible for programming funds for overhead reconnaissance capabilities; contributed to strategic signals intelligence operations; managed an offensive counterintelligence program; initiated an advanced information technology project; and been the senior civilian responsible for founding a new national intelligence production facility. He was one of the first clandestine officers assigned the terrorist target on a full time basis in the 1980s and the first person, also in the 1980s, to devise advanced information technology applications relevant to clandestine operations.

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