Approfondendo un articolo appena pubblicato su International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence mi sono imbattuto in questa interessante tesi del 2003 nella quale l’autore, un funzionario della DIA, esamina le procedure adottate per la selezione del personale analitico proponendo cambiamenti al fine di innalzare la qualità del reclutamento: "To Transform into a More Capable Intelligence Community".

Dalle conclusioni (pagina 21):

"This paper is based on the premise we can identify the right capabilities for optimizing analytical work and that we should bring our best people with these capabilities together to form a more capable Intelligence Community. Recommending a systematic pre-employment screening program for intelligence analysts to solve this shortfall is admittedly a bold move.
However, aspects of this recommendation are not unprecedented.78 CIA and NSA have already made some progress in defining requirements. Harvard has at least one experimental research program useful in this regard. However, we need to institutionalize this new paradigm if we are serious about overcoming the cognitive and conceptual challenges in analyzing transnational threats."