Open Source Center
The Open Source Center ( OSC ; English for center [for] public sources ) was an intelligence agency in the United States under the Director of National Intelligence . It specializes in collecting and evaluating publicly available sources - called Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) .
The agency's daily reports are regularly included in the President's Daily Letter from the President of the United States .
Location and employees
The headquarters of the agency is in Reston , Virginia , where the Foreign Broadcast Information Service previously sat, whose FBIS staff have been integrated into the OSC. Most of the staff are based in Reston and many are on-site in the various US embassies. Several hundred employees (as of November 2011) are to work at the OSC. Exact numbers are secret.
history
The OSC was set up in the wake of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 and is mainly used to counter terrorism and prevent illegal arms deals.
Since the protests after the Iranian presidential elections in 2009 , social networks have become the focus of the authority.
During the 2010 riots in Bangkok , according to the OSC's deputy director, two-thirds of all reports from the US Embassy in Bangkok to the government came from its agency.
The change in sentiment before the Arab Spring was noticed by the OSC, according to Director Douglas Naquin. A widespread uprising was therefore expected. Only the time was not known.
According to his own statement, the reactions to the killing of Osama bin Laden in Operation Neptune's Spear in May 2011 attracted particular attention.
In 2015 the OSC was renamed Open Source Enterprise and incorporated into the newly created Directorate of Digital Innovation of the CIA.
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The OSC was provisionally headed by the director of the CIA .
Web links
- Open Source Center. In: Official website of the OSC. Archived from the original on September 20, 2015 ; accessed on February 6, 2020 (English).