OPEN SOURCES GET CLOSED AT CIA

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OPEN SOURCES GET CLOSED AT CIA

Thu Oct 6, 2005 17:15

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OPEN SOURCES GET CLOSED AT CIA

The CIA this month will establish a new unit devoted to analysis of
"open source" intelligence, referring to unclassified information
that is openly and legally collected, Time magazine reported on
August 15.

But at the CIA, even open source material is often treated as
secret.

Last week, the CIA denied a request for a copy of a compilation of
published statements made by Osama bin Laden between 1994 and 2004
on grounds that release of the material would compromise
"intelligence sources and methods" (FOIA exemption b(3)) and that
the material was obtained on a privileged basis (exemption b(4)).
See:

http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2005/09/cia092705.pdf

But as it happens, the same material will be published next month
under the title "Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin
Laden" edited by Bruce Lawrence and published by Verso
( www.versobooks.com ).

"Over the last ten years, bin Laden has issued a series of carefully
tailored public statements, from interviews with Western and Arabic
journalists to faxes and video recordings. These texts supply
evidence crucial to an understanding of the bizarre mix of Quranic
scholarship, CIA training, punctual interventions in Gulf politics
and messianic anti-imperialism that has formed the programmatic
core of Al Qaeda," according to the publisher's announcement.

"In bringing together the various statements issued under bin
Laden's name since 1994, this volume forms part of a growing
discourse that seeks to demythologize the terrorist network. Newly
translated from the Arabic, annotated with a critical introduction
by Islamic scholar Bruce Lawrence, this collection places the
statements in their religious, historical and political context."

Meanwhile, "In a move mirroring the recruitment process at the
Central Intelligence Agency," an Al Qaeda website is openly
soliciting applicants who can serve as researchers and linguists,
according to a report in the London-based Al Sharq al Awsat. See
"Al Qaeda Website Openly Hiring New Recruits" by Mohammed Al
Shafey, October 3:

http://www.asharqalawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=1987

Open Source Solutions ( www.oss.net ), a proponent of open source
intelligence, reported that Dr. James Billington, the Librarian of
Congress, had rejected an invitation from the Director of National
Intelligence to serve as the first Director of the new Open Source
Agency.

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