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AcademyTrack XII

The Casework Cycle

Seven stages, from the written question to a finding you can check.

Faculty

Analytic Standards

US Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Analytic tradecraft standards, sourcing, expressions of likelihood and confidence

The standards are taught as a writing and reasoning discipline that any investigator can adopt. Nothing about the institution that publishes them is endorsed or defended here.

An institution can hold good standards and still fail to follow them. The 2005 review of the pre-war Iraq assessments is taught in this section for that reason.

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Faculty

Richards J. Heuer Jr.

CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence

Structured analytic techniques

Taught as published method: a reasoning discipline any investigator can adopt. Nothing about the institution that published the book is endorsed or defended here.

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