An analysis training handbook for CIA agents.

This handbook is designed to help analysts in the Intelligence Community (CIA) become more effective at their craft.

The handbook articulates the philosophy and mission of intelligence officers and systematically lays out principles they can use to conceptualize and create written and oral products.

This handbook provides the user with guidance on avoiding bias and increasing objectivity, techniques for building their analytic sophistication, and areas in which they can seek additional training.

Examples of the contents include interpersonal, bureaucratic, and communication skills; the analyst's craft; ethics of analysis; guide to gisting; key intelligence questions to ask; the internal formula for developing a case; writing effective intelligence and much more.

88 pages of detailed and interesting information about CIA techniques, analytic thinking and intelligence how–to.