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Since we're on a roll, here's a CIA manual on tradecraft https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs
by steveplace 12y ago
Since we're on a roll, here's a CIA manual on tradecraft
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/Tradecraft%20Primer-apr09.pdf https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...
- remarkEon 12y agoOh wow this is a great one. Can't find the link online but some of the older, Vietnam era field manuals concerning radio-wave propagation and the NVIS effect are pretty amazing. Not as usefully today in the age of SATCOM, but a great skill nonetheless.
- sveme 12y agoFound this one interesting: 2003 Iraq’s WMD Programs + Saddam failed to cooperate with UN inspectors because he was continuing to develop weapons of mass destruction. - If Iraqi authorities had destroyed their WMD stocks and abandoned their programs, they might refuse to fully acknowledge this to the UN to maintain Iraq’s regional status, deterrence, and internal regime stability. I wonder whether the internal decision making at the CIA before the 2003 war was really as simple as that.