Modern Intelligence Analysis: From Art to Science?

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🗓️ 1 July 2011

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

A great deal of public attention goes to the CIA’s case officers who recruit and run agents and steal secrets. However, few people pay attention to the fact that those secrets are stolen so that they can be put on desks of intelligence analysts. Analysts, then, must put together information from both secret sources and open sources to produce insightful assessments to inform the nation’s leaders. Randy Pherson, a former senior official at the CIA and the President of Pherson Associates, teaches advanced analytic techniques to the US Intelligence Community. Join him as he discusses with SPY Historian Mark Stout his efforts to move the vital field of intelligence analysis toward greater rigor.

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1:44.0	I'm Mark Stout historian of the museum.
1:46.2	I'm a PhD author and historian who served for 13 years as an analyst in the U.S.
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1:58.4	and espionage. We are fortunate to have with us today Randy Furson, the President of Furson Associates, a company which teaches advanced analytic techniques and critical thinking skills to analysts both in the United States intelligence community and in the private sector.
2:18.0	Randy is co-author with Richards J. Hoyer of a new book, Structured Analytic Techniques for the Intelligence Community.
2:25.0	Randy retired from the U.S. Intelligence Community in the year 2000 after a 28-year career,
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