This short blurb is about the dissection of the hierarchy of a nonprofit or a for- profit organization using Internet open sources and information. Such analysis is useful for counterintelligence or intelligence investigations of organizations and/or their authoritative actors. Such fact gathering and profiling is very useful and necessary for vetting these entities and players or for just info foraying missions, also known as spying.
Many for profit corporations are very open for legal and tax reasons about their organizational hierarchical chart or charts. Using these published top-down charts, the chain of command and control is usually clearly delineated by the positions in the diagrams. Clearing the organization is typically a top-down process guided by need-to-know level-by-level constraints.
The process of surreptitiously vetting or sub rosa internal data garnering is much more difficult for organizations that can by law be less open about their power structure. In this case, open Internet sources and web apps can be extremely useful in elucidating the structure of a secretive organization. Suppose for instance that the organization only resides in the state of Georgia in the United States then you can find information from the licenses of the employees which are granted by the Georgia Secretary of State Department:
http://verify.sos.ga.gov/verification/
A number of licenses can be found using the preceding search engine. If you are interested in a medical doctor then use the search engine:
https://medicalboard.georgia.gov/look-licensee
For an attorney, you must use the following search engine:
https://www.gabar.org/membership/membersearch.cfm
The search techniques vary from state-to-state within the United States.
An especially useful tool for medical organizations is the NPI Profile:
https://npiprofile.com/npi-lookup
An algorithm for determining the employees and their roles of a small state-wide distributed mental health organization would consist of:
- Identifying all the typical roles of the organization
- Identifying the addresses of the distributed organization
- For each address elucidate the case managers, counselors, nurses, physicians, etc.
Further information can be obtained by perusing online articles and data published by the organization.
The best way of getting real-time and definitive organizational intelligence data is by inserting a vetted operative also known as a spy into the organization. If this optimal technique turns out to be unavailable then another option is to bribe or blackmail a current employee and convert that individual into a double agent. The key trick in enticing an employee to turn into a double agent is to somehow placing that person in an ethical, legally, and/or morally compromising situation.
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