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Diagnosing Distortion in Source Reporting - Powerpoint

A Powerpoint presentation to accompany my thesis on source reporting reliability in intelligence.
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  • Blatant1 published this 04/15/2009
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Diagnosing Distortion in Source Reporting: Lessons for HUMINT Reliability from Other Fields

My final thesis project contends that the HUMINT process can distort the reliability of source reporting as much as a deceptive intelligence asset. The HUMINT process involves the collector, the an...
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  • Blatant1 published this 04/15/2009
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Evaluating Intelligence K Wheaton

Evaluating intelligence is a difficult task. This paper examines why it is so difficult, suggests a new model for thinking about the process of evaluating intelligence and tests that model against...
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  • kwheaton published this 02/26/2009
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MCIIS DNI OSINT Challenge -- Winning Entry

This is the winning entry from the Mercyhurst College Institute of Intelligence Studies to the 2008 DNI's Open Source INtelligence Innovation Challenge held at the DNI's OSINT Conference, September...
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  • kwheaton published this 09/14/2008
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Appropriate Factors to Consider When Assessing Analytic Confidence in Intelligence Analysis

A thesis on analytic confidence in intelligence analysis which identifies appropriate factors to consider when assessing analytic confidence, describes an experiment in which they were tested, disc...
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  • twigcc published this 04/02/2008
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