Central Intelligence Agency
Directorate of Intelligence

A Compendium of
Analytic Tradecraft Notes

Volume I (Notes 1-10)

Reprinted with a new Foreword by the Deputy Director for Intelligence

February 1997

Contents
Page
Foreword		v
Summary		vii
Note 1	Addressing US Interests in DI Assessments	1
Note 2	Access and Credibility	5
Note 3	Articulation of Assumptions	9
Note 4	Outlook	13
Note 5	Facts and Sourcing	17
Note 6	Analytic Expertise	25
Note 7	Effective Summary	29
Note 8	Implementation Analysis	33
Note 9	Conclusions	37
Note 10	Tradecraft and Counterintelligence	41

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