Methods of Inquiry for Intelligence Analysis

Security and Professional Intelligence Education Series

by Hank Prunckun

This textbook offers a way of gaining the analytic skills essential to undertake intelligence work. It acquaints students and analysts with how intelligence fits into the larger research framework. It covers not only the essentials of applied research, but also the function, structure, and operational methods specifically involved in intelligence work. It looks at how analysts work with classified information in a security conscious environment as well as obtain data via covert methods.

352 pages, Paperback

Expected publication March 19, 2026