May 16, 2025 ☼ --washingtonpost
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Sherman Kent, the godfather of intelligence analysis, argued that the first obligation for his profession was to give policymakers accurate and unbiased information, through what he called “a mastery of background knowledge, evaluation and structuring of all-source material, and tradecraft expertise.”
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