USASpending.gov: Intelligence Source Guide
USASpending.gov is the United States government's official record of what it spends and to whom - contracts, grants, loans and...
Corruption & Governance
OpenSecrets API: Intelligence Source Guide
OpenSecrets takes raw US federal campaign finance, lobbying and personal financial disclosure filings and codes them into industries, sectors and...
GovInfo / Official Gazettes: Intelligence Source Guide
GovInfo is the US Government Publishing Office's authenticated archive of federal publications - statutes, regulations, the Congressional record, court opinions,...
OCCRP Aleph: Intelligence Source Guide
Aleph is OCCRP’s search platform over investigative material - company registries, court files, procurement records, sanctions lists, gazettes and leaked...
LittleSis: Intelligence Source Guide
LittleSis is a free, editable database of relationships between powerful people, companies, agencies and non-profits, run by the Public Accountability...
CourtListener / RECAP: Intelligence Source Guide
RECAP is a free archive of United States federal court dockets and filed documents, built from copies contributed by people...
OpenCorporates: Intelligence Source Guide
OpenCorporates is the largest open database of companies, assembled by scraping and importing official registers across well over a hundred...
Open Ownership Register: Intelligence Source Guide
Open Ownership publishes the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard and an aggregated register expressing national declarations in it. It is the...
Real Property / Parcel: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Property is the asset that cannot be moved offshore overnight. Deeds, charges and valuations leave a permanent, dated, jurisdictional trail....
Court Case / Docket: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Court records are the only open dataset where an adversary is compelled to describe their own conduct under oath. Analysts...
Bank Account / IBAN: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Money leaves a trail in fixed-width fields. An IBAN names the country, the institution and often the branch before you...
Sanction / Watchlist Entry: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A sanctions hit is not an answer. It is a name, a legal basis and a programme code telling you...
Corporate Filing: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Filings are where organisations say things under legal obligation, on the record and with a date. That combination is rare...
News Intelligence (NEWSINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Reporting is evidence of what was published, by whom, when and sourced how. Treated that way it is one of...
Government Intelligence (GOVINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Decisions are made by named people, in named bodies, under written procedures. Government intelligence is knowing which body, which person...
Open Source Intelligence (OSINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Open source is not free intelligence. It is unvalidated raw material available to anyone, including your adversary, and the discipline...
Financial Intelligence (FININT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Follow the money is a cliche because it works. Financial intelligence is the discipline of following value through the institutions...
Accounting Intelligence (ACCTINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Financial statements are an argument, not a record. Accounting intelligence is the discipline of testing whether the argument actually holds....
Risk Analysis: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
The evacuation decision was made three days after the intelligence supported it. Nobody lacked information. What was missing was a...
Election Security & PSYOP: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
The claim that the count was rigged was already trending three weeks before polls opened. The infrastructure held perfectly. The...
Transnational Repression: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
A dissident's family is visited at home, an INTERPOL notice appears, and a spyware link arrives by messenger, all within...
Corruption & Governance: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Grand corruption almost never appears in a budget line. It appears as a contract awarded in nineteen days to a...
Economic Espionage: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Industrial espionage rarely looks like a break-in. It looks like a departing researcher, a joint venture with an unusual data...
Anti-Money Laundering: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Money laundering intelligence is not about spotting dirty money. It is about spotting structures whose only purpose is to make...
Financial Crime: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Most financial crime cases are not cracked by a clever trade reconstruction. They are cracked by an entity that should...
