This is a collection of great and very useful resources concerning intelligence writing such as manuals/guides, standards, books, and articles. There are both official and community resources. The collection is aimed to those looking to improve their intelligence writing skills (including me).
- Style Manual & Writers Guide for Intelligence Publications
- Analytic Thinking and Presentation for Intelligence Producers
Articles & News related to CIA's Style Manual & Writers Guide
- Writing Tips from the CIA's Ruthless Style Manual
- The CIA style guide goes online: now you can learn to write like a spy
- The CIA Released Their Style Guide, and It's Absolutely Fascinating
- Mission Grammatical: CIA Has 185-Page Writing Style Book
- The CIA and the Power of Words
- 11 Grammar Lessons From a Leaked CIA Style Book
- DIA's Style Manual for Intelligence Production (governmentattic.org)
- DIA's Style Manual for Intelligence Production (dia.mil)
- ICD 203 - Analytic Standards
- ICD 206 - Sourcing Requirements for Disseminated Analytic Products
- ICD 208 - Maximizing the Utility of Analytic Products
- USAICoE Writing Program Resources
- Enhancing Your Intelligence Writing Writing Guide for USAICoE and U.S. Army Writing
- How You Can Write Like An Intelligence Analyst
- Intelligence Analysis Tradecraft 101: Writing Effective Intelligence
- My Fool Proof Process to Writing a Killer Intelligence Brief and Tips to Deliver Intelligence Assessments Better
- The Three Skills Every Successful Intelligence Analyst Needs To Master: Tips on how to Write, Brief and Analyse
- Intelligence Writing
- How Intelligence Analysts Can Improve Critical Thinking and Writing Skills
- Write Like a Spy: Using U.S. Intelligence Guidelines to Reinforce the Lessons of Predictive Legal Writing
- Intelligence Analysis Reports: A How-to Writing Guide
- CIA - IC Writing Style
- How To Write Like An Intelligence Analyst
- Threat Intel for Everyone: Writing Like A Journalist To Produce Clear, Concise Reports (33min)
- Hack the Reader: Writing Effective Threat Reports with Lenny Zeltser (37min)
- Pen-To-Paper and The Finished Report: The Key To Generating Threat Intelligence (33min)
- Writing Meaningful Threat Intel Reports in MISP (2h30min)
- How to Keep Finished Intelligence Fresh (Recorded Future)
- Threat Intelligence Writing (Threat Intelligence Academy)
- Reporting for Analysts (I-Intelligence)
- Analytic Writing, Reporting, Briefs, and Dissemination (Treadstone71)
- Introduction to Analytic Tradecraft Writing (FedLearn)
- Style Guides by Government Agencies
- The Elements of Style - Strunk & White
- Psychology of Intelligence Analysis
There are little public resources about this specific topic. Please feel free to contribute on this project, either by sending a PR or sending me a message at ygormaximo@pm.me with suggestions of additional resources.
I currently work as a Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst but I'm not an expert on intelligence writing. I created this collection as part of my learning process of this essential topic and as a way to share and learn with the intelligence/cybersecurity community.