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From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 12:13:28 -0500
-------- Original Message --------Subject: [EPIC_IDOF] New US intelligence center to exploit publicly available information
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 08:15:06 -0500 From: Richard M. Smith <rms () computerbytesman com> To: EPIC_IDOF () mailman epic org http://www.politicalgateway.com/news/read.html?id=5315 New US intelligence center to exploit publicly available information WASHINGTON, Nov 8 (PG) - US intelligence chief John Negroponte announced Tuesday the creation of a new CIA-managed center to exploit publiclyavailable information for intelligence purposes.
The so-called Open Source Center will gather and analyze information from a host of sources from the Internet and commercial databases to newspapers,radio, video, maps, publications and conference reports.
Douglas Naquin, the center's director, said it will build on the work of the CIA's Foreign Broadcast Information Service, which once monitored and translated foreign radio brodcasts but has since expanded its reach to othermedia.
He said a key difference will be that the center aims to spread its findings and expertise across the US intelligence community, which consists of 15agencies.
"Generally what we go against is what's going to have the biggest intelligence impact where open sources can play an important role that either may or may not be covered by more clandestine intelligence activityor will augment it in some way," he told AFP.
The FBIS' strength has been in tracking media trends that show, forinstance, how foreign publics are responding to particular US policies.
But in recent years a group at the FBIS also has been applying data mining techniques to analyze massive volumes of informaiton on the Internet orcommercial databases, Naquin said.
He said they are "trying to use what we call the volume problem against itself in some type of judo fashion -- you know, the more volume the better -- so we can kind of get some sense of where the trends are and what thebuzz is on certain topics, or who's connected to whom."
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