Re: Weird military acronyms

Subject: Re: Weird military acronyms

From: David Bofinger <bofinger.david@gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 01:22:57 +1100

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Reminds me of an old (50s? Brunner?) SF novel where information was classified into one of four categories: "standing there, landing there, rumour range and rubbish."

David

On 1 October 2016 at 03:15, Thomas Fulmer <tfulmer1@gmail.com> wrote:

Correct -- Rumor Intelligence

--Thomas

On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 5:07 PM Rick Smith <rick_ww@lightspeed.ca> wrote:
What does RUMINT stand for?

Rumor Intelligence?

Warm regards, Rick.

On 2016-09-30, at 9:58 AM, Jeffrey Vandine wrote:

Never heard that story, but then I probably wasn't a member of that organization. In the military, I'd count that as "unconfirmed RUMINT," but I'd start looking into it to verify or discount it. If true, shame on Steve.