Wednesday, August 31, 2011

OSINT FINDS WWII VICTORY DAY CELEBRATION HOME MOVIE

OSINT gathering encompasses all sources, including old movies filmed years ago with old fashioned home movie cameras. This particular one is a great home movie discovered by a young lady when she discovered the video her father shot, who shot it during a spontaneous Victory Parade in Honolulu in 1945.

Notice the cars and jeeps, the youth. The guys in khaki or gray shirts and black ties are Navy officers or chiefs. The rest are Army or Marine. How young they all were to do what they did. They must be in their nineties now.





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This old film captures a moment in history! (You can listen to Jimmy Durante singing "I'll be Seeing You" in the background, too)

OSINT gathering leads to unexpected sources. This is a super video of a time past - we need to remember and be THANKFUL. Check out the color fidelity. It's not bad for 1945. Nothing will ever compare with Kodachrome film. The sound track except for Jimmy Durant also sounds authentic. That is in itself unusual for a home movie from 1945. Few could afford sound with their cameras. Click HERE to view it.






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Friday, August 26, 2011

SECRECY NEWS IS USEFUL OSINT RESOURCE


Secrecy News, a publication of the Federation of American Scientists, is an excellent resource for OSINT research. The publication reports on new developments in government secrecy and provides public access to documentary resources on secrecy, intelligence and national security policy. It is written by Steven Aftergood.





Spy Bits! In 1981, on today's date, the McDonald Commission on RCMP wrongdoing issued its final report. Its recommendations included setting up a new spy agency separate from the Mounties. The Trudeau government responded by establishing CSIS, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.


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Sunday, August 21, 2011

5 REASONS U.S. WILL EXPAND SPECIAL OPS IN YEMEN


First, we're not permittted to be there. Several years ago, Arab League secretary Amr Moussa has ruled out western military intervention to fight Al-Qaeda in Yemen. Moussa emphatically stated that there is no way they'll repeat the experience of Afghanistan, even after the explosive airline parcels targeted the U.S. At the time, he asked for assistance from all Arab countries in the Arabian Gulf, due to its critical strategic location. He had no idea the current uprising against the government would be so widespread and intense.

Second, the U.S. decided to exert diplomtic pressure to encourage vulnerable others in the Arab League to come to Yemen's aid. Moussa said that he would hold meetings and visit a number of Arab countries to discuss how they can support Yemen in this crucial juncture. The U.S. can diplomatically "sweeten" his pleas. But, that was before the pervasive and unexpected uprisings throughout the Arab world. There were questionable reports of the West thinking about military intervention to destroy AQAP in Yemen after the airplane mail bomb plots, and the U.S. denied these reports and assured Moussa that there would be NO military intervention.

Third, America simply doesn't need to send in armored Marine divisions. True, the U.S. now perceives AQAP as more dangerous than the main Al-Qaeda group of Bin Laden. But, America planned to support Yemeni authorities financially and technically. We learned quickly how to fight asymmetric warfare.

Fourth, we have learned to fight the shadow war; insurgent weaklings can beat superpower giants. It's called asymmetric warfare. Behind closed doors with Yemeni officials, a harmonious decision was made to send in military advisers, surveillance satellites and drone aircraft, undercover CIA and DOD intelligence-gathering agents, and small special ops teams for surgical strikes against AQAP. No news media reporters were embedded in these clandestine operations.

OSINT NEWS believes we can't and won't spread our main battlefield soldiers thinner in the war against radical Islam. In asymmetric warfare, whoever said a super power can't become lop-sided, too. Undercover CIA and DOD intelligence officers, stealthy raids by small special ops teams, Yemeni-approved U.S. air force support, secretive predator and reaper drone patrols, and supplying Yemeni troops with weaponry and training would work better than massive armored Marine divisions.

Fifth, the Domino Effect is real in this part of the world. Yemen's struggle with the AQAP cries out for other Arab peninsular states to enter the struggle. Diplomacy with these vulnerable Arab states is critical. Moussa is in a position to persuade them to put boots on Yemeni soil. If Yemen falls, they're next.


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