Quote from: Shannon on August 13, 2012, 07:22 amwhat's needed is people to analyze intel, these wall-o-text-o-ramas usually have only a nugget or two of good info hidden somewhere in the middlewhile we're posting text dumps, here's one on how to turn dumps into something useful ;)https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/Tradecraft%20Primer-apr09.pdfYes I read it. It's great, legitimately good work done by a government official, but it's mostly too high level for what we need here.Like you say, we need hordes of amateur intelligence analysts poring over this kind of material.The problem is that:- Some intel is useful for SR- Some intel is useful for RL operations (much of what I've posted so far, but there's SR goodies later on)- Generally speaking, it's hard to say what data is useful for us all. It's trival to pick out data useful for yourself, but more difficult to judge on what's useful for everybody else. Of course there's a general array of data that should be useful to everybody, but still.Hopefully these threads will provoke some thought about intelligence gathering, intelligence analysis. The vast majority of useful data in practice is open source, not behind any locked doors/firewalls or even paywalls. Not that I would mind some closed source data e.g. internal SR related memos... I mean, plenty of cleaning staff work in DEA offices across the world, some of them are bound to become SR users at some point. Ditto for the USPS postal inspectors and so on.