Zakas:

> This reminds me of a story i heard (from one of the planners) about the us
> invasion of grenada in 1983.  intelligence agencies didn't have a
> recent map
> of the island and satellite images aren't very good for identifying street
> names, etc.  the only maps available of the island were really really old
> (1890's i think, but can't remember the exact year).  and so when they
> landed, one of the first tasks was to go to a gas station and buy maps of
> the city.  open source intelligence can be a good thing.

That should be funny, but it's not.

We threw too much money at fancy whizmos. Intelligence is human.

~Aimee

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