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Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) on the Public Internet and on the Open Source Information System (OSIS) UNCLASSIFIED Warning Intelligence on the Internet Review (WIIR) No. 107—Special Issue 2 January 2002 Published every other Wednesday, the WIIR presents unclassified English-language global threat intelligence found on the public Internet. It is prepared under contract by Interaction Systems Incorporated (ISI) for the National Intelligence Officer for Warning and the National Intelligence Council. Issues of the WIIR are posted online on NICOLE, Intelink, and the Open Source Information System. The summaries and quoted excerpts in WIIR issues are intended for the use of members of the U.S. intelligence community in furtherance of their professional duties—and the summaries and quoted excerpts are subject to the copyright protections associated with the original sources. Please provide questions, comments, and websites for future Internet review to Dr. James Arnold Miller, Chairman, ISI, at [email protected], 703-938-1774, and fax 703-938-1727. Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) on the Public Internet and on the Open Source Information System (OSIS) By James Arnold Miller, Ph.D. Mining Online Open Sources Given the horrendous terrorist attack on the United States on 11 September 2001 and the ensuing war against global terrorism, unclassified or open source intelligence (OSINT) is more important than ever. And this means exploiting not just information on the public Internet but also, very importantly, what is and becomes available on the federal government’s online Open Source Information System (OSIS). The dedicated facilitators in the Community Open Source Program (COSP) and their OSIS practitioners in Washington and around the globe have been working hard for years to promote and enable the use of OSINT in intelligence research and analysis. Our nation’s warfighters— pilots, sailors, special operations commandos, or cops and other first responders at home—need all the help they can get in the intelligence area. There has never been a greater need for quality OSINT. Having said that, where can we find quality OSINT? In the more than two years since we’ve been preparing the WIIR, we’ve found a great many websites on the public Internet that have proven to be valuable sources of warning-related and other open source intelligence. But since we obtained access in early 2001 to OSIS we have come to realize that often the unclassified information available through OSIS exceeds or matches information on the public Internet. Many hundreds of intelligence professionals in and out of government today are persistently and increasingly effectively collecting (often at substantial dollar cost), synthesizing, analyzing, and disseminating quality open source information relating to homeland security and the global war on terrorism. The primary purpose of this special issue of the WIIR is to try to assist all of those OSINT “warfighters.” For we believe that the first line of defense as well as offense in the war against terrorism is intelligence, and we also believe that the job can’t be done without maximum collection and exploitation of OSINT. In several of our previous issues of the WIIR, which began publication in November 1999, we presented lists of information providers on the public Internet. Now that we are regular exploiters of the information resources on OSIS, we present below a listing of online OSINT resources available on OSIS and/or the public Internet. While clearly oversimplifying greatly, we have assigned each of the OSIS and public Internet websites to a regional or functional topic. Our goal is to present “starting points” for readers interested in finding OSINT resources relating to broad categories of interest. Regional and Functional Topics for Organizing Regional and Functional Topics Regional Topics Functional Topics More Functional Topics Africa Chemical and Biological Warfare (CBW) Human Rights Asia-Pacific Conflicts Intelligence Canada Countries International (catch-all category) Europe Crime News Latin America Cyberwarfare Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Middle East Defense Reference Russia-CIS Disasters Terrorism Environment Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Homeland Security (HLS) We have tried to verify the accuracy/currency of all website addresses (Uniform Resource Locators, or URLs) cited below and apologize for any errors. While you are online within OSIS you of course can gain access to the associated websites by pointing and clicking—but we include below the URLs of OSIS websites in the event you want to “bookmark” any of these sites. Please let us know if you have any problems or questions—and also if you can suggest any other websites that we should be aware of. We did exclude a few otherwise recently useful websites on OSIS and on the public Internet that we were unable to access during the last several days. We are grateful for any and all feedback on our website listings and on the substantive reporting in the WIIR. Please let us know at [email protected] how we can help you make your OSIS and public Internet mining more productive. We face the tremendous challenge of better using OSINT to help meet the pressing and growing intelligence needs of homeland defense and the war on terrorism. All the best for 2002 personally and professionally! Jim Miller 2 Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) on the Public Internet and on the Open Source Information System (OSIS): Organized by Regional and Functional Topics NOTE: In the grid presented below in the fourth or right hand column labeled “A” (for Access”) a “P’ means that the website is accessible through the public Internet whereas an “O” means that the website is accessible only via OSIS. Topics Websites Website Addresses (Uniform Resource Locators, or URLs) A Africa Africa Confidential http://www.africa-confidential.com [London newsletter—for-fee but P back issues are accessible for free] Africa Africa Daily http://www.africadaily.com P Africa Africa Index http://www.afrika.no/index [maintained by the Norwegian Council for P Africa—daily e-mails are available] Africa Africa News Now http://www.africanewsnow.com/index.html P Africa Africa Policy http://africapolicy.org [links on African issues and U.S. policy] P Information Center Africa Africa Server http://www.africaserver.nl [Netherlands-based gateway] P Africa African Studies http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies [from the home page go to P Center/University of Country-Specific Pages and to Selected Web Links] Pennsylvania Africa AllAfrica.com http://allafrica.com [maintained by AllAfrica, Inc., previously Africa P News Service and Africa News Online—hundreds of new stories daily mostly from African news organizations] Africa New Africa.com http://newafrica.com and http://newafrica.com/maps [for maps] P Africa World Wide Web http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl [gateway to many P Virtual Library-Africa information resources] Asia-Pacific Asia Week http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek P Asia-Pacific Asia-Pacific Center for http://www.apcss.org [U.S. Department of Defense research and P Security Studies conference center in Honolulu, HI—includes country background information and links to other organizations] Asia-Pacific Australia http://ns.au.osis.org [Open Source Information System-Australia is an O activity of Australia’s Defence Intelligence Organization] Asia-Pacific COSP Monitor- http://www.cosp.osis.gov/Monitor/Afghanistan/index.htm [numerous O Afghanistan recent articles organized by sub-topics] Asia-Pacific COSP Monitor-China- http://www.cosp.osis.gov/mis/ChinaStrait/straitmain/index.htm O Taiwan [numerous recent articles organized by sub-topics] Asia-Pacific COSP Monitor- http://www.cosp.osis.gov/mis/pak/index.htm [numerous recent articles O Pakistan organized by sub-topics] Asia-Pacific COSP Monitor- http://web.dia.osis.gov/Philippines [archived articles focusing on O Philippines terrorism in the Philippines] Asia-Pacific Far Eastern Economic http://www.feer.com [Hong Kong-based—free access to articles on P Review economic, military, and political developments] Asia-Pacific Inside China Today http://www.insidechina.com [focus on China, Hong Kong, and P Taiwan—by European Internet Network] Asia-Pacific Institute for Defence http://www.idsa-india.org [India-based—publisher of the journal P Studies and Analyses “Strategic Analysis”] Asia-Pacific National Bureau of http://www.nbr.org [Seattle-based—publications, databases, and links] P Asian Research Asia-Pacific Nautilus Institute for http://www.nautilus.org [prolific source of reports and current news— P Security and sends e-mails with links to full reports—Asia-Pacific topics treated Sustainable include arms control, ballistic missile defense, defense, environment, Development and WMD] Asia-Pacific Pacific Command, http://www.pacom.osis.gov [useful leads to OSIS and public Internet] O U.S. 3 Asia-Pacific South China Morning http://www.scmp.com [based in Hong Kong] P Post Asia-Pacific World Wide Web http://www.vlib.org/AsianStudies.html [gateway to many information P Virtual Library-Asia- resources] Pacific Asia-Pacific World Wide Web http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-PacificStudies.html [gateway to P Virtual Library-Pacific many information resources] Asia-Pacific Zama Home Page http://zama-osis.army.mil [features Pacific Rim Open Source Service— O maintained by the U.S. Army’s Military Intelligence Battalion of the 500 Military Intelligence Group—based at Camp Zama in Japan] Canada Canada http://maple.osis.org [the MAPLE Canadian OSIS-I [international] O website, operated by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service] Canada
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