FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

“911, Iraq, & Bin Laden: US’s $60 Billion Intelligence Failure”
Presented by Former Intelligence Officer Robert D. Steele from Washington, D.C.
The World Affairs Council of Kentucky/Southern Indiana’s Global Economic Forum

May 2, 2006—(Louisville, KY)—Former Career Intelligence Officer Robert D. Steele will come to
Louisville, Ky. on June 14 to detail how and why open source intelligence methods should be used
more frequently to track high priority issues and military enemies. ASPectx founder Dawn
Yankeelov, and a member of the organizing committee for the area World Affairs Council’s Global
Economic Forum Series, extended the invitation to bring perspective to Kentuckians in this the
area.

Open source intelligence or “OSINT” refers to an intelligence gathering discipline based on
analyzing information collected from open sources, i.e. information available to the general
public. These sources include newspapers, the internet, books, phone books, scientific journals,
radio broadcasts, television, and others.

Robert David Steele, a career intelligence officer who went on to found the Marine Corps
Intelligence Command and then the international Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) movement,
believes that 80 percent of the threats to the U.S. can be monitored through open source
intelligence methods. However, Steele contends, $60 billion a year is spent on the 20% of the
threats amenable to secret sources and methods.

The kickoff event for this year’s Global Economic Forum Series will be held on Weds., June 14th
with a general lecture at 5:30PM open to the public and a business dinner at 6:30 PM. Tickets will
be sold in advance and at the door: $20 for the main event; and $100 for the business dinner. The
general lecture will be held in the Greenbaum Room, at Greenebaum, Doll & McDonald, 3500 National
City Towner, followed by the business dinner at Vincenzo’s Italian Restaurant, 150 South 5th St.
Tickets for both events are on a first-come basis, and seating is limited.

In November 2005, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) announced the creation of the Open
Source Center (OSC). The OSC’s functions include the collection, analysis and research, training
and information technology management to facilitate government-wide access and use of open source
information. The center builds on the expertise of the CIA’s Foreign Broadcast Information Service
(FBIS), which has provided the U.S. Government a broad range of open source products and services
since 1941 (including world media content available to the public through World News Connection).
The top operational open source intelligence unit in the US military is the Open Source
Intelligence Branch of the Special Operations Command Joint Intelligence Center (SOCJIC).

Many other nations maintain open source intelligence gathering operations, for example Australia’s
Office of National Assessments, the UK’s BBC Monitoring Service, and the Swiss Army. Collection
and analysis tasks are allocated in different ways by different agencies.

To hear more on how this approach effects homeland security and you, join the general public and
World Affairs Council members at this exciting event. may be purchased by calling the World
Affairs Council at (502) 561-5422. Checks for tickets can be mailed to World Affairs Council, 200
West Broadway, Suite 607, Louisville, Kentucky 40202. Space is limited, and tickets for both
events are on a first-come basis. Please include a daytime phone number, type of tickets and
quantity desired, if ordering by mail.

About Robert Steele
Robert David Steele is a former career intelligence officer who founded the Marine Corps
Intelligence Command and is the leading voice of the Open Intelligence Movement. He has been
featured in Year in Computers 2000, named one of the Microtimes 100 industry leaders and unsung
heroes shaping the future, and is the central character in Alvin Toffler’s chapter in War and
Anti-War on “The Future of the Spy”. Steele has hosted over 6,000 multinational intelligence
professionals at his annual Global Information Forum, and trained an additional 1,500 at various
tailored events hosted by 19 different countries. He is the primary author of the DIA, NATO, and
SOF Open Source Intelligence Handbook, and the primary sponsor for the 30,000 pages of substantive
training materials on open source information that are offered free to the public at www.oss.net.
Steele is the author of On Intelligence: Spies and Secrecy in an Open World (2000); The New Craft
of Intelligence: Personal, Public, & Political (2002); and Information Operations: All
Information, All Languages, All the Time (2005). He is also the publisher and a contributing
editor to Peacekeeping Intelligence: Emerging Concepts for the Future (2003), and, Peacekeeping
Intelligence: The Way Ahead (2006). For more information, go to http://www.oss.net.

The World Affairs Council of Kentucky and Southern Indiana is a community-based, non-partisan,
non-profit organization dedicated to providing educational programming on international and
intercultural topics throughout the state and community; and to fostering linkages between the
people and institutions of Kentucky/Southern Indiana and their counterparts throughout the world.
To learn more about the World Affairs Council of Kentucky and Southern Indiana as well as the
Global Economic Forum, visit our website at: http://www.wacaky-in.org

For More Information:
Ben Jones
World Affairs Council of Kentucky/Southern Indiana
director@licc.org
502-561-5422