[Intelforum] Subscription: Fringe Intelligence

Wed Jul 29 15:07:49 EDT 2009

From: "Roger Vleugels" <roger.vleugels at planet.nl>
To: <intelforum at lists101.his.com>
Subject: Subscription: Fringe Intelligence
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:24:08 +0200

Dear IntelForum mailing list members,

I ask you to consider to become a free of charge subscriber to the 
Fringe journals. Both of them, Fringe Intelligence and Fringe 
Spitting, are biweekly email journals. In my opinion their content is 
of interest to all IntelForum list members. Below an introduction and 
information on how to order them. The circulation of these specialist 
journals is since this week 1,800. This means that Fringe 
Intelligence has a solid position in the global top 5 of OSINT email 
newsletters and that Fringe Spitting is the number 1 in the world of 
FOIA, Freedom of information act, newsletters.

Two journals

Fringe Intelligence [FI] offers articles on not yet established 
intelligence news and on intelligence news next to mainstream; Fringe 
Spitting [FS] provides news and tools for freedom of information 
specialists, investigative journalists and researchers. Both journals 
are free of charge and biweeklies. A maximum of 10% of the content is 
about or related to the Netherlands. A subscription means four 
journals per month: together more than 150 articles.

In Fringe Intelligence articles ranging from intelligence and 
counterintelligence, via criminal intelligence and counter terrorism 
to parapolitics and other topics with intelligence aspects.

In Fringe Spitting news and tools for research and freedom of 
information, and also recently -via foia requests- disclosed new old 
news partly intelligence related.

Almost all articles are internet downloads; 90+% is in English. The 
quality is the quality of the source.

1,800 subscribers

Fringe has 1,800 subscribers: 50% intelligence watchers and analysts, 
30% press, 15% foi specialists. Of all subscribers 60% are non-Dutch, 
living in 83 countries; 15% of the subscribers are employees of 
government bodies [50% of them of intelligence, security and counter 
terrorism agencies] and 15% of universities and colleges.

The publisher: Roger Vleugels

I am specialised in freedom of information and intelligence. I 
lecture on journalism basics, investigative journalism and FOIAs in 
The Netherlands and across Europe. As legal advisor I filed since 
1988 more than 2,500 FOIA requests for my clients, most of them 
journalists.

In 1986 I started my transparency work as an independent forensic 
intelligence researcher. In other words I started at the climax of 
non-transparency. As intelligence specialist I research, lecture, 
comment in the press, brief members of parliament and give advice to 
journalists and lawyers.

Next to this regular work I edit and publish the Fringe journals.

Surfing, searching, stringers and sources

The article gathering for Fringe is for a large part based on a small 
group of Dutch and foreign overt and covert stringers. Additionally 
my own gathering is based on surfing the net and on more than hundred 
subscriptions, feeds and alerts. In these ways I try to cover a 
substantial part of the intelligence and foia sites and of a 
representative part of the major newspapers and other periodicals 
worldwide.

Some of the more specialised sources are: Article 19, BeSpacific, 
Cryptogram, Cryptome, EDRi-gram, EFF, EPIC, FOIANet, FreedomInfo, 
Infowarrior, Intelforum, Intellfrance, Intelligence ADI, The Memory 
Hole, Mother Jones, National Security Archive, NISA, OSINT, Privacy 
International, Secrecy News, Spy News, Statewatch, Terrorism Monitor 
and Wobbing Europe.

Subscriptions are free of charge and enclose both journals

To order the two most recent issues mail Fringe Samples to 
<mailto:roger.vleugels at planet.nl>roger.vleugels at planet.nl

To start a subscription mail: Start Fringe, to <>roger.vleugels at planet.nl

Kind regards, Roger Vleugels
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