The CIA's Program for Improving Intelligence Analysis: Curing Analytic Pathologi

Dr. Jeffrey R. Cooper, Vice President for Technology, Science Applications International Corporation, "The CIA's Program for Improving Intelligence Analysis: Curing Analytic Pathologies, Recruiting, Training, Educating, and Developing"

Publisher: TheCIA Center for the Study of Intelligence | 2005 | ASIN B0017UGJHU | PDF | 81 pages | 10.3 MB

A new study published by the CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence calls for a fundamental reconceptualization of the process of intelligence analysis in order to overcome the “pathologies” that have rendered it increasingly dysfunctional. This study is fundamentally about what I would call the intellectual professionalization of intelligence analysis. It is about standards and practices and habits of mind. It is about inductive (evidence-based) analytical reasoning balanced against deductive (hypothesis-based and evidence-tested) reasoning. It extols the value of truly scientific modes of thinking, including respect for the role of imagination and intuition, while warning against the pitfalls of "scientism," a false pretense to scientific standards or a scientific pose without a scientific performance. It talks about peer review and challenging assumptions and the need to build these therapeutic virtues into the analytical process.

NO Mirrors !!!