Improving CIA Analytic Performance

Kent Center Research Scholar Jack Davis has been associated with CIA since 1956, first as an employee and since 1990 as an independent contractor. "Strategic Warning" includes useful summaries of five post mortem critiques together with steps analysts can take to fix problems identified. "Analysts and the Policymaking Process" looks at establishing effective analyst-policymaker relations. "DI Analytic Priorities" returns to the post mortem reports of the 1990s to suggests lasting analytic priorities for the CIA's Director of Intelligence. "If Surprise is Inevitable" considers what strategic warning can be and do and how to develop a warning capability organizationally. (Originally published by the CIA's Sherman Kent Center for Intelligence Analysis as Occasional Papers, 2002-2003.)