Lead civilian foreign-intelligence agency: Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) — https://www.cia.gov ✅
bellingcat.com
bellingcat.comThe 2018 Jamal Khashoggi assassination used OSINT to identify the Saudi hit team (Bellingcat investigation, https://www.bellingcat.com/news/mena/2018/10/24/the-mystery-of-the-first-saudi-hit-team-flight-to-istanbul/).
Related in Regional OSINT
Lead signals-intelligence agency: National Security Agency (NSA) — https://www.nsa.gov
Federal law-enforcement & domestic intel: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) — https://www.fbi.gov
ODNI Intelligence Community Open Source Strategy 2024-2026 — https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/IC_OSINT_Strategy.pdf ⚠️ 403 to bots, downloadable in any browser. This is the first public IC document that formally elevates OSINT to a first-tier INT alongside HUMINT/SIGINT/GEOINT/MASINT.
SEC EDGAR
Corporate filings (10-K, 10-Q, 13D, S-1), ⚠️ 403 bot-block, live in browser
PACER
Federal court records, ✅ 200