US State Dept TIP Report: Intelligence Source Guide
The annual Trafficking in Persons Report ranks nearly every country on a four-tier scale and attaches real consequences to the...
Human Trafficking
Polaris Project / Trafficking Hotline: Intelligence Source Guide
Polaris runs the US National Human Trafficking Hotline and publishes the typologies derived from it: the most detailed open account...
Global Slavery Index (Walk Free): Intelligence Source Guide
The Global Slavery Index is Walk Free's country-by-country estimate of modern slavery prevalence, government response and import risk. It is...
Counter-Trafficking Data Collaborative: Intelligence Source Guide
CTDC publishes de-identified, case-level records of individual trafficking victims contributed by IOM, Polaris and partner organisations. It is the only...
Event / Incident: Data Point Intelligence Guide
An event is where every other data point converges: a time, a place, a set of actors, and the messy...
Messaging Handle: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A messaging handle outlives phone numbers, domains and marketplaces. It is the thread that ties an operation together across years...
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...
Location / Coordinates: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A place name is not a point. It is a claim about where something happened, carrying a resolution, a source...
Social Profile: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A social profile is a persona's self-published intelligence report. The metadata around it is usually more truthful than anything written...
Phone Number: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A phone number is a globally routable identifier attached to a real contract and, increasingly, to every account a person...
Person / Name: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A name is the weakest identifier in intelligence work and the one most likely to end a career when handled...
Legal Intelligence (LEGINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Litigation is an involuntary disclosure engine. Adversaries in court say, under oath and on the public record, what they will...
Criminal Intelligence (CRIMINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Criminal intelligence is not case notes with better formatting. It is the discipline that turns scattered incidents into an articulable...
Identity Intelligence (IDENT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Identity resolution fails in two directions and only one of them is visible. A missed link costs you the investigation;...
Social Media Intelligence (SOCMINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Social platforms record behaviour, not truth: what was posted, when, by an account, to an audience. Social media intelligence keeps...
Human Intelligence (HUMINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Human intelligence is the only discipline where the source can be harmed by your success. Every rule in the tradecraft...
Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Place is the one attribute nearly every other data point carries. Geospatial intelligence makes place answer questions: what is here,...
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...
Border Security & Migration: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
A migration surge rarely begins at the border. It begins weeks earlier in a Telegram price list, a change in...
Forced Labour & Modern Slavery: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Forced labour is rarely announced by chains and locked doors. It shows up as recruitment fees, retained passports, and a...
Gangs & Street Crime: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Retaliation after a stabbing is usually measured in days, sometimes hours. The intelligence question is not who did it but...
Child Protection: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
The pattern that ends most sextortion cases is depressingly consistent: contact within hours, escalation within a day, and a payment...
Human Trafficking: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Very few trafficking victims arrive at a police station and describe themselves as trafficked. What arrives first is a wage...
Organized Crime: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Organised crime leaves paperwork. Not confessions, but a notary who appears in eleven unrelated share transfers, a haulage firm with...
