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> The intelligence community underestimates the massive amounts
of
> information available in the open source. In 1995, for
instance,
> the Central Intelligence Agency held a competition to see who
could
> gather the most information, most quickly, on Burundi. The
winner
> was a Washington company, Open Source Solutions, which left the
CIA
> team in the dust. In 24 hours, OSS compiled huge amounts of
> information, ranging from statistics to scholars; the CIA team
> finished dead last, compiling little more than their own World
> Factbook.