Nits and Appreciation from Robert Steele    Second ranking civilian  at the time there were about  civilians in Marine Corps intelligence  The top person was John Guenther an SES who had been there forever  I was the second as a GM  All others were GS to GS  It is an accurate fact    On the Drug War film I did not volunteer  The film producer got in touch with me because of my Amazon reviews eg LOST HISTORY on contras drugs and CIA and asked if I could come to Los Angeles for filming  I agreed provided he would pay my expenses which he did and I volunteered my time    The COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE book is my first book to be published that does not have my name on the cover  I am turning now toward nurturing and aggregating others and although I have three chapters in this book recommend it be listed  If anyone wants to engage in dialog leading to improvements of this page for example my three most recent seminal articles on OSINT are at wwwossnetOSINTS wwwossnetOSINTO and at wwwossnetHILL where my article on The Open Source Program Missing in Action is being read by virtually everyone either planning to attend or deciding not to attend the DNI OSINT conference  I also wrote the Joint Military Intelligence Training Center Open Source Handbook and the Special Operations Forces Open Source Handbook as well as the NATO Open Source Handbook and will create stubs for the first two should anyone wish to link to them  My email is bear xxx oss dot net  Best wishes