Robert David Steele

Hispanic Form with Matronymic: Robert David Steele Vivas

***** ******* **** *****, ******, VA 22124

Skype: robert.david.steele.vivas

Email: abo40e@r.postjobfree.com

Cell: 571-***-****

Personal

Date and Place of Birth: 16 July 1952 (59 years), Oceanside, New York

Citizenship: US by birth continuous passports including diplomatic passports

Early Life: Colombia, Dutch West Indies, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Viet-Nam,

Global (Esso Child)

Marital Status: Married since 15 August 1988 (23 years)

Spouse's Name: Kathy Lynette Steele nee Jones of West Virginia

Children: Patrick James (22), Matthew Brian (18), Sean Joseph (15)Languages Other Than English: Native Spanish, Elementary FrenchEmployment History

Earth Intelligence Network (501c3 Public Charity)

Chief Executive Officer (2006

Recruited 23 other pioneers to design the World Brain & Global Game

Proponent for information-based governance beyond governments, Multinational,

Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-sharing and Sense-Making (M4IS2)

Created strategic analytic model for global holistic analysis & gaming

Pioneered multinational Information Operations (IO)

International speaker on peacekeeping intelligence and information peacekeeping

Trained United Nations Class Before One and Helped Establish Hybrid Unit

Published two foundation books

COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace (2008)

INTELLIGENCE for EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainability (2010)

Chile, Denmark, Italy, Spain

Open Source Solutions, Inc. (Virginia C Corporation focused on Global Education)

Chief Executive Officer (19932010)

Created modern Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) discipline across 90 countries

Created first handbooks in the discipline for UN, DoD, Special Forces

Inspired creation of new units now employing roughly 25,000 specialists

Created concepts of Smart Nation, Information Arbitrage, Information Peacekeeping

International speaker on role of information as foundation for accountability and trust

Organized and managed global conferences training 7,500 mid-career officers

Created 30,000 pages of original content still online, free, and relevant

Created thousands of relationships across national and organizational boundaries

Inspired sharing across eight tribes of intelligence (academia, civil society,

commercial, government, law enforcement, media, military, non-profit)

Published five foundation books

INFORMATION OPERATIONS: All Information, All Languages, All the Time (2006)

THE SMART NATION ACT: Public Intelligence in the Public Interest (2006)

PEACEKEEPING INTELLIGENCE: Emerging Concepts for the Future (2003)

THE NEW CRAFT OF INTELLIGENCE: Personal, Public, & Political (2002)

ON INTELLIGENCE: Spies and Secrecy in an Open World (2000)

Contracted by the Office of Personnel Management, Western Management Development Center

From 1997-2002, lectured to senior executive candidates on global reality, intelligence

In final year served as course director for two offerings of the national security course

Produced OSINT for the multiple clients with global needs

Roughly $10 million in revenue with one full-time employee (self)

From indigenous local knowledge in 29 languages (now 33) to global geospatial and online

IRS audit of 2007 found no change for an extremely complex global small business

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Chile, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Lebanon, Luxembourg,

Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom

United States Marine Corps (1976-1996

)

Civil Service (GM-14) (

1988-1993

)

Officer of Marines (Reserve) (1976-1996)

As second-ranking civilian (GM-14) from 1988-1993

Tried and failed to redirect DoD from worst-case to most-likely scenarios

Tried and failed to get DoD to focus on open communications with all external parties

Created Service General Defense Intelligence Program

(

1985-1988

)

Created Marine Corps Intelligence Center/Command (1988-1992)

Study Director for first global study using only unclassified information, Planning and

Programming Factors for Expeditionary Operations in the Third World (MCCDC, 1990)

Created original analytic model with 144 factors, five degrees of difficulty for each

factor

Pioneered the all-source fusion workstation & access to open source information

Managed Congressional, Departmental, and Inter-Agency relationships

In Reserve capacity, served as Adjunct Faculty for Intelligence,

Marine Corps University

As infantry, intelligence, security/personnel officer (active 75-79, reserve 79-96)

Selected to help write Marine Corps Master Intelligence Plan (MCMIP)

Promoted to field grade (Major/O-4) over course of 20 years in the Reserve

Colombia, El Salvador, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Okinawa, Panama, Philippines

Central Intelligence AgencyOperations Officer (1979-1988)

Top performer (top 10% in class, selected/completed Mid-Career Course 101 (War College))

Recruited 25 traitors, managed over 100 clandestine assets, spent $100K/month

One of two officers assigned to penetrate terrorist target in Latin America

Created first Standard Operating Procedures for a (Clandestine) Field Station

Hand-picked to pioneer advanced information technology for entire agency

Founding Member Advanced Information Processing & Analysis Steering Group

Hand-picked for DCI s Advanced Program & Evaluation Group (APEG)

Resigned to accept Marine Corps invitation to create new intelligence capability

Subsequently testified against secrecy and against torture to various commissions

Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Panama, Venezuela

Education

Amazon Reader & Reviewer (2000

#1 reviewer for non-fiction, reading and reviewing in 98 non-fiction categories

Education is continuous in every sense of the work, heavily invested in books by others

Naval War College (1987-1990)

Professional Certificate in Defense Studies, 3.3 out of 4.0

Strategy, Defense Acquisition & Economics, Maritime/Joint Operations

University of Oklahoma (1985-1987)

MPA in Public Administration, 4.0 out of 4.0, Pi Alpha Alpha Honor Society

Thesis on strategic and tactical national security information (mis)management

Lehigh University

MA in International Relations, 3.6 out of 4.0, Research Fellow

Thesis on predicting and remediating revolution across multiple dimensions

Original analytic model fully operationalized (specific data sources for each factor)

Political-Legal, Socio-Economic, Ideo-Cultural, Techno-Demographic, Natural-Geographic

Singapore American High School (1967-1970)

Diploma Advanced Placement and Honors

Grand Prize Science Fair (Hydroponics), Varsity Sports, Student Government

Awards & Honors

Commissioner s Decanter Scotland Yard 2002 For advances against global crime & terror

Year in Computers Publication 2000 For advancing open source information

Gratitude Colleagues 1996 For advancing open source intelligence

Unsung Hero Microtimes 1996 For pioneering open source intelligence

Unsung Hero Microtimes 1994 For pioneering open source intelligence

Hackers Conference Silicon Valley 1994 Elected to honorary membership

Hackers on Planet Earth New York 1994 First speaker and life-time honorary member

Appreciation Letter DoD 1993 For advances against global narcotics

Future of the Spy Alvin Toffler 1993 Created chapter centered on open sources

Achievement DoD 1991 For creating Marine Corps Intelligence Center

Exceptional Achievement CIA DCI 1987 For advances in information technology

Special Achievement CIA DDO 1987 For unusual success in Central America

Pi Alpha Alpha Society 1987 Elected for 4.0 average in MPA at OU

Meritorious Honor (Group) State 1982 For service under fire in El Salvador

Publications

Websites

Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-david-steele open public governance

Phi Beta Iota www.phibetaiota.net public intelligence blog

Earth Intelligence Network www.earth-intelligence.net global analytic model

Open Source Solutions Network www.oss.net open source intelligence

Books Written

ON INTELLIGENCE: Spies and Secrecy in an Open World (AFCEA, 2000, OSS 2002)

THE NEW CRAFT OF INTELLIGENCE: Personal, Public, & Political (OSS, 2002)

PEACEKEEPING INTELLIGENCE: Emerging Concepts for the Future (OSS, 2003)

INFORMATION OPERATIONS: All Information, All Languages, All the Time (OSS, 2005)

THE SMART NATION ACT: Public Intelligence in the Public Interest (OSS, 2006)

ELECTION 2008: Lipstick on the Pig (EIN, 2008)

INTELLIGENCE FOR EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainability (EIN, 2010)

Books Published (Contributing Author, Gave Up Senior Editor Role to Honor Mark Tovey)

COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace (edited by Mark Tovey, EIN,

2008)

Books in Progress

Manifesto for Truth: Intelligence with Integrity in the Public Interest (Under contract

from Random House/North Atlantic/Evolver Editions, first draft completed and available for

examination, scheduled for global availability summer 2012 after multiple drafts evolve).

INTELLIGENCE FOR PEACE: Multinational, Multifunctional Information-Sharing & Sense-Making

(edited by Col Jan-Inge Svensson, Land Forces Sweden (Ret), foremost practitioner-

instructor, delayed indefinitely but posted free online in rough form)

Study Guides

Class Before One Inter-Agency Information-Sharing & Analytics (United Nations, Beirut,

2007)

Special Operations Open Source Intelligence Handbook (June 2004, draft for SOF

completion)

NATO Open Source Intelligence Reader (NATO, 2002), Open Source Intelligence Handbook

(NATO, 2001)

Asymmetric Warfare, Information Warfare, Open Source Intelligence (US Special Operations,

1999)

Open Source Intelligence Handbook (Joint Military Intelligence Training Center, 1996)

Intelligence Reader (2 volumes, Marine Corps University, AY 1992-1993)

Artificial Intelligence: Annotated Bibliography (Central Intelligence Agency, Summer

1986)

Multinational Corporations: Annotated Bibliography (Council of Planning Librarians,

1975)\

Chapters

The Ultimate Hack Re-Inventing Intelligence to Re-Engineer Earth, (Chapter for Counter-

Terrorism Book Out of Denmark, forthcoming 2011)

Creating a Smart Nation in Mark Tovey, COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE: Creating a Prosperous

World at Peace (EIN, 2008), pp. 107-130

World Brain as EarthGame(TM) in Mark Tovey, COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE: Creating a

Prosperous World at Peace (EIN, 2008), pp. 389-398

Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) in Loch Johnson (ed.), Strategic Intelligence (Volume

2: Collection, Praeger, 2007). This is the strategic overview in relation to all aspects

of secret intelligence.

Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) in Loch Johnson (ed.), Handbook of Intelligence Studies

(Routledge, 2007). This is the operational practice guide, an update of the NATO Handbook.

Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) in Strategic Intelligence: Windows into a Secret

World, An Anthology, edited by Dr. Loch Johnson and Dr. James Wirtz (Roxbury, 2007)

Monographs

Human Intelligence (HUMINT): All Humans, All Minds, All the Time Monograph, Strategic

Studies Institute, Army War College (May 2010)

Putting the I into DIME: Strategic Communications & Information Operations, Peacekeeping

Intelligence & Information Peacekeeping; Early Warning and Stabilization & Reconstruction

Operations, Monograph, Strategic Studies Institute, Army War College (November 2005)

The New Craft of Intelligence: Achieving Asymmetric Advantage in the face of

Nontraditional Threats U.S. Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute (February 2002)

War & Peace in the Digital Age: Digital Natives, Serious Games, & the Way of the Wiki

Seventh Generation Information Operations and Irregular Warfare (Waging Peace) Monograph,

Strategic Studies Institute, Army War College (pending revision following review)

Official Studies

Study Director, Special Studies (various global endeavors, several with collection and

analysis in up to 33 languages, for the U.S. Special Operations Command and the U.S.

Central Command, 1997-present).

Study Director, Open Source Intelligence, J-2 Plans U.S. Central Command (multiple

studies over a three year period studying key aspects of each of 27 countries in

respective languages, from water to logistics choke points to public perceptions of US

public, US government, US military, US as a national construct; then global studies of

Islamic sermons and Islamic families (top 20 in each of the Caliphate countries, 2005-

2007

)

Study Director, Proliferation Studies (seven case studies on hardest proliferation

problems for Project SWEEPSTAKES, an inter-agency all-source endeavor. Using only open

sources in all relevant languages, mapped individuals, components, sites, and transit

devices for each of the seven major proliferation targets, creating huge wall maps, 1998-

1999

)

Study Director, Planning and Programming Factors for Expeditionary Operations in the

Third World (Marine Corps Combat Development Command, March 1990)

Fixing the White House and National Intelligence, International Journal of Intelligence

and Counterintelligence, Winter 2010

OPINION America s Cyber Scam, Homeland Security Today, 9 February 2010

Perhaps We Should Have Shouted: A Twenty-Year Retrospective, Phi Beta Iota, 3 August

2009

U.S. Naval Seapower in the 21st Century:24/7 Pile-On, M4IS2 Hub, & Peace From the Sea.

Phi Beta Iota, July 2009

Intelligence for the President AND Everyone Else, CounterPunch, Weekend Edition,

February 27 1 March 2009

US Naval Power in the 2st Century, Phi Beta Iota, 10 November 2008

A Critical Evaluation of U.S. National Intelligence Capabilities, International Journal

of Intelligence and Counterintelligence (Summer 1993)

E3I: Ethics, Ecology, Evolution, and Intelligence: An Alternative Paradigm for National

Intelligence, Whole Earth Review (Fall 1992)

C4I: The New Linchpin, Proceedings (U.S. Naval Institute, July 1992)

Applying the New Paradigm : How to Avoid Strategic Intelligence Failures in the

Future, American Intelligence Journal (Autumn 1991)

Intelligence Support to Expeditionary Planners, Marine Corps Gazette (September 1991)

Intelligence in the 1990's: Recasting National Security in a Changing World, American

Intelligence Journal (Summer/Fall 1990)

Concept Briefing

Building a Global web: Education, Intelligence, & Research, in support of candidacy for

the inaugural position of Vice President for Global Strategy, George Mason University

(2011)

Op-Eds (Selected)

Seven Promises to America Who Will do This?, Phi Beta Iota, 20 June 2011

National Intelligence and National Defense, Campaign for Liberty, 17 June 2011

Cyber-Intelligence: Restore the Republic of Of, By, and For, Huffington Post, 4

January 2011

Infinite Wealth for All, Huffington Post, 26 December 2010

Frog 6 Guidance for 2010-2020, Huffington Post, 21 December 2010

Diversity of Voices & Values, Huffington Post, 21 December 2010

Personal for Mike Bloomberg, Huffington Post, 14 December 2010

Empire of Lies & Secrecy, Huffington Post, 11 December 2010

Citizens Fiddle, Obama Dances, Huffington Post, 7 December 2010

A World That Works for All, Huffington Post, 6 December 2010

No Labels Non-Part Equals Four More Years for Wall Street, Goldman Sachs, Grand

Theft USA, Huffington Post, 30 November 2010

REVIEW: Buckminster Fuller s 1928 Ideas & Integrities, Huffington Post, 30 November

2010Our Choice: Changing the Game, Huffington Post, 15 November 2010

Obama s Choice, Huffington Post, 9 November 2010

Electoral Reform, 1 Page, 9 Points, Huffington Post, 7 November 2010

On the Issues from Abortion to War & Peace, Huffington Post, 4 November 2010

8 Populations, 4 Methods, Huffington Post, 2 November 2010

12 Core Policy Domains, Huffington Post, 27 October 2010

10 High Level Threats to Humanity, Huffington Post, 26 October 2010

What s Right with America? Let Me List the Books, Huffington Post, 21 October 2010

My Talk with Tom Atlee: Primer on Citizen Intelligence, Huffington Post, 19 October

2010

Strategic Analytic Model for Creating a Prosperous World at Peace, Huffington Post, 14

October 2010

Newt Gingrich, Vice President for Global Engagement Waging Peace, Huffington Post, 12

October 2010

Michael Bloomberg, Vice President for Education, Intelligence, & Research Creating a

Smart Nation, Huffington Post, 7 October 2010

Dennis Kucinich, Vice President for the Commonwealth And Some Details, Huffington Post,

5 October 2010

Virtual President Announces Coalition Cabinet, Huffington Post, 30 September 2010

It s Official Steele Won Virtual Presidency, Huffington Post, 28 September 2010

Graduate Research Posted Online

National Security C3, I3, H3: Command, Communications, & Computing; Inter-Agency, Inter-

Disciplinary, Inter-Operability; Heuristics of the Community Intelligence Cycle

(University of Oklahoma, 1987)

Artificial Intelligence and Complex Public Organizations (University of Oklahoma, 1986)

Theory, Risk Assessment, and Internal War: A Framework for the Observation of

Revolutionary Potential (Lehigh University, 1976)

The Origin and Failure of the State (Lehigh University, 1975)

An Outline of the Structure and Strategy of the Foreign Affairs System of the People s

Republic of China (Lehigh University, 1975)

Perversion or Progression? An Examination of Our Constitution s Contemporary Validity in

Foreign Affairs (Muhlenberg College, December 1973)

Theological Ethics (Muhlenberg College, Fall 1973)

Testimony, Invited Lectures & Recurring Instruction

Hacking Humanity Meets Spy Improv: Road-Map for CEOs with Open Minds, forthcoming

(Young Presidents, Denver CO 18 September 2011)

Cyber-Command or Information Operations 21st Century (IO 21), (US Army Annual

Information Operations Conference, Peterson AFB CO, 6 April 2011)

Hacking Health, (Health 2.0, Bethesda MD, 24 March 2011)

Building a Global Web: Education, Intelligence, & Research, Candidacy Briefing for

position of Vice President for Global Strategies, George Mason University, January 2011

Impact of Globalization on Intelligence: Context & Challenge, (Government of Chile, 25

November 2010, Santiago, Chile)

SPY IMPROV: Questions & Answers with the #1 Amazon Reviewer for Non-Fiction (New York

City, 17-18 July 2010, eight hours, from 1159 on Saturday 17 July 2010 to 0800 on Sunday

18 July 2010

Hacking Humanity, Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) Keytone (New York City 16 July 2010,

on hour)

The Future of OSINT is M4IS2: Online Tutorial, Phi Beta Iota, 25 November 2009

The Ultimate Hack: Re-Inventing Intelligence to Re-Engineer Earth, (Denmark 27-28

October 2009)

Real Time Information: Injecting New Information Into Decision Systems (National Press

Club, Washington, D.C., 23 September 2009)

Planned Remarks for Robert David STEELE Vivas, (Economics, Intelligence, & Transparency

Conference, New York City, 13 September 2009)

DoD Open Source Intelligence Leadership Briefing, to USD(I) and DIA, Phi Beta Iota, 10

September 2009

DoD Open Source Intelligence Staff Briefing, to USD(I) and DIA, Phi Beta Iota, 10

September 2009

Open Everything, (UNICEF, New York City, 15 July 2009)

The Ultimate Hack: Re-Inventing Intelligence to Re-Engineer Earth (Faculty of Advanced

Engineering, University of British Columbia, March 2009)

Secession is Not Sedition: Restoring the Sovereignty of the Public over the Substance of

Governance (Third North American Secession Convention, Manchester, New Hampshire, 15

November 2008)

Information-Sharing & Analytics Orientation, (National Defense Intelligence College,

Multinational Intelligence Fellows Program, 11 March 2008)

United Nations Class Before One Information-Sharing and Analytics Orientation, (UN

Mission Beirut, Lebanon, August 2007)

Bin Laden, U.S. Intelligence, and National Security, Hackers on Planet Earth (New York,

20 July 2006)

The Failure of 20th Century Intelligence, Hackers on Planet Earth (New York City, 21

July 2006)

Spy Improv: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Reality But Didn t Know Who to

Ask, (4 hours), Hackers on Planet Earth (New York City, 21 July 2006)

Model for Making Amazon the World Brain: All Information, All Languages, All the Time,

Amazon Developers Conference Capstone Speaker (Seattle, 6 January 2006)

Open Source Intelligence: The Way Ahead, Naval Intelligence Professionals (Suitland,

MD, 3 February 2006)

The Googlization of Intelligence, Hackers (Silicon Valley, 5 November 2005)

E3i: Ethics, Ecology, Evolution, and Intelligence Making the Revolution, U.S. Army

Strategy Conference (Carlisle, PA 22 April 2005)

Information Peacekeeping: A Nobel Objective, Third International Conference on

Peacekeeping Intelligence (Stockholm, 4 December 2005)

The Future of Intelligence: Not Federal, Not Secret, Not Expensive, Guest Lecture for

the Assistant Secretary for Intelligence, Department of Homeland Security, 8 November

2004.

The New Craft of Intelligence: How State Should Lead, Distinguished Speaker

Presentation to the Secretary (of State Colin Powell) s Open Forum (24 March 2004)

C4I Revolution and National Security, Armed Forces Communications and Electronics

Association (San Antonio, 1 September 2003)

Strategic Threat Assessment: A Regional Approach to Intelligence, Force Structure, &

Combined Operations, Presentation to the conference of South American military leaders

(U.S. Southern Command, 26 March 2003)

Information Peacekeeping & the Future of Intelligence, Netherlands Intelligence Studies

Association Banquet Speaker (Amsterdam, 15 November 2002)

The New Craft of Intelligence What Should the T Be Doing to the I in IT, National

Security Agency Industry Conference Keynote (Las Vegas, 6 January 2002)

TOUGH LOVE, Security Affairs Support Association, Defense Intelligence Agency (16

September 1999)

The Information Age and Open Source Intelligence: National Security through the

Reinvention of National and Defense Intelligence (recurring presentation to the National

Security Intelligence Course, Joint Military Intelligence Training Center, 1994-1999)

TESTIMONY: Talking Points on Secrecy and Accountability (Congressional Forum, 9 October

1996)

TESTIMONY: Sources & Methods for Congressional Inquiry (Commission on Secrecy, Summer

1996)

Waging War and Peace in the 21st Century: Creating the Virtual Intelligence Community,

International Flag Officer s Conference, Secretariat General de la Defense Nationale

(Paris, 15 December 1995)

TESTIMONY: Reinventing National Intelligence, and the Burundi Benchmark Exercise,

Commission on the Roles and Capabilities of the US Intelligence Community (5-9 August

1995)

National Information Strategy for National Security and National Competitiveness,

Community Open Source Program Office Government-Industry Conference (16 June 1995)

Reinventing Intelligence: The Advantages of Open Source Information and National &

Corporate Security in the Age of Information, 6th National Threat Symposium on

Information Sharing (McLean, 1 November 1994)

Creating a Smart Nation: The Way Ahead, presented abroad to multiple governments in a

world tour, 1994

The Reinvention of Intelligence, Conference on Defense and Intelligence in the Chamber

of the French Senate, 26 October 1993. Invited at the direction of the Prime Minister

acting on the advice of his intelligence advisor.

TESTIMONY: Comments and Statement for the Record, Presidential Inter-Agency Task Force on

National Security Information (Washington, 9 June 1993)

RECURRING LECTURES: on non-fiction, strategy, leadership, and all aspects of the

discipline of intelligence.

Appearances in Documentaries, YouTube

American Drug War: The Last White Hope (2007)

Les Hackers, National Geographic Channel

Le Monde selon Bush (The World According to Bush) by William Karel, Paris Premiere TV

Four informally taped presentations on YouTube including

Need for Strategic Analytic Model, Speaking to Dr. Brent Scowcroft and others at the

Woodrow Wilson Center, 8 April 2011 (1 minute 51 second observation from the audience)

Impact of Globalization on Intelligence: Context & Challenge (in Spanish, Chile, November

2010)

Open Everything (Gnomedex, Seattle, 2007)

Amazon as the Hub of the World Brain (Amazon Developers Conference, Seattle, 2007)

References

The first two are former supervisors, the third is most important client for innovation

(all retired).

Col Walter Breede III, USMC (Ret) 561-***-**** abo40e@r.postjobfree.com

Director, Marine Corps Intelligence Center (MCIA)

Mr. Boyd Sutton 715-***-**** abo40e@r.postjobfree.com of Advanced Programs and Evaluations Group, US Government

BGen James Cox, Canada Land Forces 613-***-**** abo40e@r.postjobfree.com

NATO N-2 Deputy that sponsored three NATO OSINT documents

With a few exceptions, all publications are online and freely available at

www.phibetaiota.net .

Partial Listing.

Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing & Sense-

Making (M4IS2)

Partial Listing.

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