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119418
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2013.
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Eleven years later, the United States Intelligence Community (IC) has yet to recover from the 11 September 2001 (9/11) attacks on the Pentagon and New York City-and from the decade old-issue of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (WMD), at least in terms of how its member agencies do analysis. Many words have been said and written, and many changes have been put into place but the country's leadership has gone down as many blind alleys as it has found ways to make improvements. Indeed, much of the current thinking about analysis arguably spends much too much time on what might be called mechanical issues-especially the search for ever better programs to parse more and more data-and much less on the intellectual core of analysis. This is understandable, as building computer programs is much easier than thinking about thinking and how to improve it. So, based on my many years inside and around the IC, I offer some principles for discussion and debate to get the constituent agencies back to the heart of analysis, which involves good thinking about difficult subjects.
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140991
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One of the more charming and frustrating aspects of American life is the endless pursuit of perfection. Americans tend to believe, as a people, that things can always be improved. For many aspects of life—science, medicine, transportation safety, etc.—this is a worthwhile approach. But for other aspects of life this pursuit is really a chimera, an illusory, unattainable goal. Indeed, in some areas pursuing it may be even more costly than not pursuing it.
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181304
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Intelligence officers love to explain their role in the policy process as “telling truth to power.” They wrap themselves in this phrase; it makes them feel noble. You can see a similar sentiment when you walk into the original CIA headquarters, in marble on the wall on the left: “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John VIII:32).
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155218
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This article is a summation of the emphases I place in my teaching about intelligence, both in academic settings and in courses presented to government and commercial clients. The main goal is to demystify and deromanticize intelligence, to present it as a normal function of government and one that has moral and ethical standards and can exist compatibly within a democratic government. The article also discusses suggested course readings, some successful term paper topics and the concept of graduate intelligence courses as a type of professional training. The article also notes some themes emphasized in courses on training new analysts in their required skill sets.
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082826
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2008.
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This article takes the view that largely impossible standards have been imposed on intelligence analysis, largely for political reasons stemming from the 9/11 attacks and Iraqi WMD. The article begins by examining the supposed lessons for intelligence analysis derived from these. It turns out that many of these widely accepted lessons have little basis and are, when compared, entirely contradictory from one case to the other. The article then reviews what the office of the Director of National Intelligence has done to make changes in analytical tradecraft and assesses whether these steps are likely to have a positive effect on future intelligence analysis. Finally, the article posits some ways in which analysis should be assessed and some of the impediments that will make this difficult even though it is necessary
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004423
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2nd ed
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London, Praeger, 1992.
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xvii, 178p.
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Washington papers; no.157
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0275944352
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Copies: C:1/I:0,R:0,Q:0
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 035050 | 327.1273/LOW 035050 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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140917
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New York, Praeger Publishers, 1984.
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x, 134p.pbk
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Washington Papers no; 105
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Vol. XII
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0030715326
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| 024695 | 327.120973/LOW 024695 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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