Wanted to share a thread on a resource that’s been immensely valuable to me as an intel analyst.

Hands-down my top recommendation for a user manual on #analytictradecraft.

Incredibly cogent and concise.
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https://archive.org/details/CIA_Analytic_Thinking_and_Presentation_for_Intelligence_Analysis_Training_Handbo/mode/2up
“We render the complex simple.” Beautiful.
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Yes. Yes it does.
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“We should not write so that it is possible for the reader to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to misunderstand us.”
― Quintilian
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Simple, but powerful
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Ah, review and coordination.
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This advice on gisting is worth its weight in gold. So helpful at the beginning stage of analysis when gathering facts.
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The centrality of titles not as a means to grab attention, but to tell your audience what’s in it for them.
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Including nice-to-have content: so tempting but ultimately undermines your impact.
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The best single template for current intelligence writing I’ve seen. Years ago I made a word template based on this for myself and my team. We wrote hundreds of intel reports using that template.
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I was glad to see some discussion of the inverted pyramid around the SANS CTI Summit 😃
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Also has a quick crash course on some analytic methodologies:
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Some great advice on briefings too….guess I’ll have to cross prancing about off my list, huh?
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If you’d like a physical copy, Louis Kaiser and Randolph Pherson updated and extended it in 2013.
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https://shop.globalytica.com/collections/publications/products/analytic-writing-guide-e-book-1 (apparently out of stock currently)
https://www.amazon.com/Analytic-Writing-Guide-Louis-Kaiser/dp/0979888026/
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