InSight Crime: Intelligence Source Guide
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Organized Crime
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...
Cryptocurrency Address: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A blockchain address is a pseudonymous account with a permanent, public and complete transaction history. That combination makes it the...
Company / Organization: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Companies are how money, liability and control get organised. Follow the entity and you find the people who preferred not...
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...
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...
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...
Corporate Intelligence (CORPINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Every company is a legal fiction held together by filings. Corporate intelligence reads those filings to establish who is actually...
Threat Actor Intelligence (ACTORINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Infrastructure changes weekly and tooling changes quarterly, but habits almost never change. Actor intelligence is the discipline of tracking what...
Maritime Piracy: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Piracy risk is not a map. It is a product of monsoon windows, mothership range, freeboard and speed, and how...
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...
Fraud & Identity: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
The synthetic identity that just passed your onboarding checks has a credit file, a utility bill and eighteen months of...
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...
Art & Antiquities Trafficking: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Looted antiquities rarely arrive with a forged export licence. They arrive with a vague provenance line, usually a private European...
Counterfeiting & IP Crime: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
A counterfeit is not a bad copy. It is a parallel supply chain with real factories, freight forwarders, payment processors...
Kidnap, Hostage & Extortion: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
A kidnap-for-ransom market has a price list, a broker layer and a settlement rail. Treat it as an economy rather...
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...
