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MEMORANDUM FOR AMERICA FROM ROBERT DAVID STEELE VIVAS Imagine an America in which public intelligence replaces secret intelligence, and elitist corruption is displaced by an informed democracy in which consensus conferences at every level assure that "We the People" all serve the public interest. Let me give you an example by discussing what $100M will buy. 100M will buy a Navy warship, or an Army brigade, or 1000 diplomats, or 10,000 Peace Corps volunteers, or a water desalination plant doing 100M cubic meters of water a year, or a day of war over water in the Middle East. Today these trade-off decisions are made by a corrupt policy process that is neither public, nor in the public interest. Secret intelligence is easily manipulated or ignored when it is not flat-out wrong. Secret agreements between the White House and corrupt executives, and the complete corruption of Congress by campaign contributions from private interests, make our policy process undemocratic, unethical, and uninformed. Worse, these secret agreements, including corrupt patent and copyright processes, keep useful knowledge out of the public domain. Knowledge that could illuminate new possibilities, and technologies that could liberate, are repressed to protect profitable but socially costly investments. There is a simple democratic solution. It is called public intelligence. My vision is rooted in what our Founding Father, Thomas Jefferson, who understood: "A Nation's best defense is an educated citizenry." I am the evangelist for something called Open Source Intelligence or OSINT. Like open source software, and open spectrum, OSINT is, I believe, a foundation for our future.. ..our bright future. OSINT is the wedge in the door for three different revolutions: 1) Intelligence reform—if we get OSINT right, at very low cost, just 5% of what we spend now on secret intelligence, we can increase by a factor of 100, perhaps 1000, perhaps even 10,000, what America can know about itself, about the world, and about the possibilities for peace and prosperity. 2) Acquisition reform-if we get OSINT right, we will realize that we still need $500B a year for national security, but we must invest these taxpayer dollars in different ways—we can cut the heavy metal military to half this amount; substantially increase our special operations and gendarme "white hat" capabilities for delivering humanitarian assistance under combat conditions; substantially increase our homeland security through an emphasis on intelligence and prevention; and redirect $100B a year toward faithbased diplomacy, a dramatic increase in our foreign assistance including a digital Marshall Plan, and a focus on eliminating dictatorships that spawn terrorism, poverty, and genocide. 3) Governance reform-OSINT restores the morality of capitalism, including the proper calculation of the negative economic costs including ignored social costs, creates an informed citizenry, and makes true democracy possible around the world—the only way of actually containing and then eliminating terrorism. The new craft of intelligence is personal, public, and political. It supports peace and prosperity. I ask for your help in communicating the vision to every citizen in every country. Thank you. Roberto Post Office Box 369, Oakton, Virginia 22124 USA Voice: (703) 242-1700-Facsimile: (703) 242-1711 -Web: www.oss.net - Email: [email protected]

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