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Candidate Notes on 05-WMD-07

 


05-WMD-07 on Mar 31, 2005

Human Intelligence: Conclusion 1

Saddam Hussein's Iraq was a hard target for human intelligence, but it will not be the last that we face. When faced with such targets in the future, the United States needs to supplement its traditional methodologies with more innovative approaches.

Conclusion 2

Rewarding CIA and DIA case officers based on how many assets they recruit impedes the recruitment of quality assets.

Conclusion 3

The CIA, and even more so the DIA, must do a better job of testing the veracity of crucial human sources.

Conclusion 4

Iraq's denial and deception efforts successfully hampered U.S. intelligence collection.

Conclusion 5

In the case of Iraq, collectors of intelligence absorbed the prevailing analytic consensus and tended to reject or ignore contrary information. The result was "tunnel vision" focusing on the Intelligence Community's existing assumptions.



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