Open source intelligence is transforming intelligence gathering. It has been used to identify Russian spies engaged in assassinations in Europe and Chinese nuclear missile silos. Dark Mirror by Barton Gellman stands out as an account of that episode. Spies Lies and Algorithms looks at how that kind of open source intelligence, which we call OSINT or OSINT, is transforming intelligenceathering.
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