Assessing the Tradecraft of Intelligence Analysis

This report assesses intelligence analysis across the main U.S. intelligenceagencies and makes a number of recommendations some of which parallelinitiatives tha... » 

This report assesses intelligence analysis across the main U.S. intelligenceagencies and makes a number of recommendations some of which parallelinitiatives that have begun in the wake of the December 2004 legislation forinstance create a Deputy Director of National Intelligence as a focal pointfor analysis establish a National Intelligence University build a Long TermAnalysis Unit at the National Intelligence Council and form an Open SourceCenter for making more creative use of opensource materials. «