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StewartPollockSecondPaper 4 - 24 Apr 2022 - Main.StewartPollock
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| | | Section I: The History and Nature of Open-Source Intel | |
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< | The history of open-source intelligence can actually be traced back to a Columbia Law graduate—William Donovan, who led the Office of Strategic Services (forerunner to the CIA) during the Second World War. After Pearl Harbor, the OSS created a Research and Analysis branch which meticulously pored over “dozens of newspapers, journals, press clippings, radio broadcast reports from around the world” looking for information which might give some information about strength and movements. Donovan noted that even a totalitarian regime, in which the media was strictly controlled by the government, would still, for propaganda purposes, be compelled to release some inadvertently useful information. | >
> | The history of open-source intelligence can actually be traced back to a Columbia Law graduate—William Donovan, who led the Office of Strategic Services (forerunner to the CIA) during the Second World War. After Pearl Harbor, the OSS created a Research and Analysis branch which meticulously pored over “dozens of newspapers, journals, press clippings, radio broadcast reports from around the world” looking for information which might give some information about enemy strength and movements. Donovan noted that even a totalitarian regime, in which the media was strictly controlled by the government, would still, for propaganda purposes, be compelled to release some inadvertently useful information which could then be used against it. | | | | |
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< | This fundamental tension is being echoed in Ukraine—for example, following the sinking of the Russian missile cruiser Moskva on April 14, the Russian Ministry of Defense posted a video purporting to show the sailors of the ship, who it claimed had all been rescued following its “accidental” sinking. However, geolocation of the footage quickly raised questions about when and where it was taken—and the fact that only 100 sailors, out of a crew of over 500 were being shown at all, raised more questions than it answered. In the days following the sinking, Lee and others began scouring Russian-language social media for information, and soon began reporting on memorial services being held for crewmembers of the Moskva. Even in Putin’s Russia, there is only so much information could be controlled. | >
> | This fundamental tension is being echoed in Ukraine—for example, following the sinking of the Russian missile cruiser Moskva on April 14, the Russian Ministry of Defense posted a video purporting to show the sailors of the ship, who it claimed had all been rescued following its “accidental” sinking. However, geolocation of the footage quickly raised questions about when and where it was taken—and the fact that only 100 sailors, out of a crew of over 500 were being shown at all, raised more questions than it answered. In the days following the sinking, Lee and others began scouring Russian-language social media for information, and soon began reporting on social media posts honoring dead crewmembers. Even in Putin’s Russia, there are limits to how much information can be controlled. | | | Section II: The War in Ukraine on Twitter |
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