Handbook of Scientific Methods of Inquiry for Intelligence Analysis offers student a means to gain the analytic skills essential for undertaking intelligence work. It also describes how intelligence fits into the larger research framework, covers the essentials of applied research, and expalains the function, structure, and operational methods specificially involved in intelligence work. It looks at how analysts work with classified information in a security sonscius environment and how they obtain data via covert methods. Readers will be left with little doubt about what intelligence is and how it is developed using scientific methods of inquiry.