Kristin Wood on the Intelligence Value of Open Source Data

Intelligence Matters

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🗓️ 8 March 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell speaks with former senior CIA officer Kristin Wood about the history, value and current applications of open source data to intelligence collection and analysis. Wood, who helped lead the innovation and technology group at CIA's Open Source Center, walks through the types of information available to the public and for purchase through commercial firms that create unique insights into companies, behaviors and events. Morell and Wood discuss the ways in which the U.S. intelligence community has leveraged - or failed to leverage - some key open source data.

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0:00.0	Kristen Wood spent 20 years at the CIA working on operations and analysis.
0:07.1	She finished her career there helping lead the innovation and technology group at CIA's
0:11.4	open source center.
0:13.1	Since leaving the agency, Kristen founded and led a company that provided open source solutions
0:18.0	to the government.
0:19.5	She is now serving as a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfort Center for Science
0:23.7	and International Affairs.
0:26.0	Kristen has been on our show before and she joins us today to talk about the potential
0:30.4	for an open source revolution in intelligence.
0:33.6	We'll be right back with that discussion after a break.
0:36.4	I'm Michael Morrell and this is Intelligence Matters.
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