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Introduction to Intelligence Studies
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Introduction to Intelligence Studies

by Carl J. Jensen III, David H. McElreath, Melissa Graves
November 2012
Beginner content levelBeginner
374 pages
12h 7m
English
CRC Press
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Writing and Briefing for the Intelligence Community 239
In addition to condence levels, analysts also use estimative language
to convey the likelihood that something will happen. is is dierent from
condence levels because here the analyst is not saying how condent they
are in their sources or their information; rather, they are saying how likely
something is to happen or not. To illustrate this, consider an analyst who is
investigating whether a country’s leader is in good health and whether the
leader is likely to die within the next year. e analyst may have a human
intelligence (HUMINT) report from a source whose reliability is either not
good or has yet to be established; the HUMINT source may report that the
leader is in the nal sta ...
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