A Tradecraft Primer: Structured Analytic Techniques for Improving Intelligence Analysis , posted by CIA, March 2009 This primer highlights structured analytic techniques-some widely used in the private sector and academia, ...
The CIA has made this edition [1995] of the compendium available to the public to help shed light on how the Directorate of Intelligence meets the daily challenges of providing timely, accurate, and rigorous analysis to ...
Curing Analytic Pathologies: Pathways to Improved Intelligence Analysis , by Cooper, CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence, Dec 2005 The Analytic Pathologies framework yields four insights that are crucial both to ...
Psychology of Intelligence Analysis , by Heuer, 1999, for CIA -- very good examination of many elements of critical thinking, with examples (PDF version) [from the introduction] Dick Heuer's writings make three fundamental ...