Following these recommendations , in November 2005 the Director of National Intelligence announced the creation of the DNI Open Source Center . The Center was established to collect information available from " the Internet , databases , press , radio , television , video , geospatial data , photos and commercial imagery . " In addition to collecting openly available information , it would train analysts to make better use of this information . The Center absorbed the CIA 's previously existing Foreign Broadcast Information Service ( FBIS ) , originally established in 1941 , with FBIS head Douglas Naquin named as director of the Center . Then , following the events of 9/11 the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act merged FBIS and other research elements into the Office of the Director of National Intelligence creating the Open Source Enterprise
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September 11 attacks
Open-source intelligence