OSS CEO, Former Spy and Intelligence Reformer, Comments on the Appointments of John Negroponte and Mike Hayden to NID & DNID
Washington, D.C., February 17/PRNEWSWIRE/ -- OSS CEO Robert David Steele Vivas, a former spy and author of two seminal works on intelligence reform, today praised the President’s appointment of John Negroponte and Mike Hayden as National Intelligence Director (NID) and Deputy National Intelligence Director (DNID).
“Appointing a Foreign Service officer with non-governmental as well as combat experience is the perfect move. John Negroponte can be expected to strike the right balance between secret and open sources, and to understand that 90% of the information we need to keep America safe is not secret, not online, not in English, and available only if we are friendly and ambitious about creating a national Open Source Agency (OSA) reporting to the NID. Should he choose to do so, he could be the first national level leader to help the Department of State focus on information treaties (with nations) and information sharing agreements (with organizations).
“Mike Hayden is the most extraordinary general officer we have when it comes to understanding how to process distributed information in an enterprise-wide fashion, extracting value from widely-dispersed elements of information, while also ensuring that all parties—from county sheriffs in Middle America to special operations teams in hot pursuit overseas—have immediate 24/7 access to all information in all languages. Mike Hayden’s powerpoint slide, as modified by Scotland Yard and OSS.Net, is the single most powerful depiction of where he can take America’s information.
“Neither of these two superb officers will be successful without a very tight focus by four others.
“The Secretary of State must sponsor the OSA and establish an information treaty and agreements office.
“The Secretary of Defense must accelerate implementation of his direction that every theaterestablish an inter-agency collaboration center—we need all of these started in 2005, not years down the road.
“The Secretary of Homeland Security must ask Congress for the funding necessary to establish fifty stateinter-agency collaboration centers modeled after the military centers.
“The Director of Central Intelligence must create a new “five fifths” clandestine service.
“Transformation and reformation can occur with months, not years. The NID/DNID lever, in the above context, will be the OSA.”
SOURCE: OSS.NET
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/CONTACT: Robert David Steele Vivas 703-242-1700
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