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Intelligence tradecraft primer and media exposure / Randall E. Puig, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Intelligence and counterintelligence studies series.
- Intelligence and counterintelligence studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intelligence service--United States.
- Intelligence service.
- Intelligence service--Methodology.
- Mass media and publicity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (105 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This text highlights structured analytic techniques - some widely used in the private sector and academia, some unique to the intelligence profession. Using the analytic techniques contained in this primer will assist analysts in dealing with the perennial problems of intelligence.
- Contents:
- Intro
- INTELLIGENCE TRADECRAFT PRIMER AND MEDIA EXPOSURE
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- Chapter 1 A TRADECRAFT PRIMER: STRUCTURED ANALYTIC TECHNIQUES FOR IMPROVING INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS
- INTRODUCTION
- The "Mind-Set" Challenge
- HOW TO USE THESE TECHNIQUES
- DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES
- Key Assumptions Check
- When to use
- Value added
- The method
- Questions to ask during this process include
- Quality of Information Check
- Indicators or Signposts of Change
- Analysis of Competing Hypotheses (ACH)
- CONTRARIAN TECHNIQUES
- Devil's Advocacy
- Team A/Team B
- High-Impact/Low-Probability Analysis
- "What if?" Analysis
- IMAGINATIVE THINKING TECHNIQUES
- Brainstorming
- Divergent Thinking Phase
- Convergent Thinking Phase
- Outside-In Thinking
- Red Team Analysis
- Alternative Futures Analysis
- Hypothetical Threats to the Homeland: Using Spectrums to Define Potential Targets
- STRATEGIES FOR USING STRUCTURED ANALYTIC TECHNIQUES
- Starting out
- Hypothesis testing
- A final check
- SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY
- End Notes
- Chapter 2 INTELLIGENCE IN CONTEMPORARY MEDIA: VIEWS OF INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS
- INTELLIGENCE IN FICTIONAL LITERATURE
- Stephen Maturin: The Ideal Intelligence Officer for Our Times (Nicholas Dujmovic)*
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (Barry Royden)*.
- Crescent Moon Rising (Noah Rozman)*
- Stormbreaker: James Bond for a New Generation (Valerie P.)*
- Rogue's March (James M. Burridge)*
- INTELLIGENCE IN BOOK AND FILM
- The Hunt for Red October: The Techno-espionage Prototype? (Bill Hadley)*
- The Kite Runner (Eizabeth Darcy)*
- INTELLIGENCE IN FILM AND TELEVISION
- One Day in September and Munich: Enduring Questions, Indelible Images (Dr. Daniel Tsao, M.D.)*
- The Siege (Eric Heller)*
- 9/11 Documentary (Dennis C. Wilder)*
- Hamburg Cell (Senior New Zealand Security Intelligence Service Case Officer)
- Baghdad ER-The 86th Combat Support Hospital in Iraq, a Documentary (Dr. John Elliott, MD)*
- Body of Lies (V. L. Vorbeck)*
- The Recruit (John Anderson, Clifford L., Lucy B.)*
- The Bourne Identity (J. M. Webb)*
- Burn Notice (Lisa M. Forrester)*
- Taken (Shirley A. Healer)*
- CHAPTER SOURCES
- INDEX
- Blank Page.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record; title from PDF title page, viewed (07/13/2020).
- ISBN:
- 1-61470-102-4
- OCLC:
- 756496470
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