iTrace (CAR): Intelligence Source Guide
iTrace records weapons, ammunition and components that Conflict Armament Research investigators physically held in a conflict zone, then traces them...
Shipment / Bill of Lading
Conflict Armament Research iTrace: Intelligence Source Guide
Conflict Armament Research sends investigators into conflict zones to physically document recovered weapons and ammunition, record their markings, and formally...
TRAFFIC Wildlife Trade: Intelligence Source Guide
TRAFFIC is the wildlife-trade monitoring NGO whose seizure records, market surveys and CITES-facing analysis form the open evidence base for...
CITES Trade Database: Intelligence Source Guide
The CITES Trade Database holds the official record of international trade in protected species back to 1975, compiled from the...
Shipping Container: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Eleven characters follow a steel box from a factory yard to a customs hold. The check digit tells you in...
Shipment / Bill of Lading: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A bill of lading names the shipper, the consignee and the goods on the same page. It is the closest...
HS Commodity Code: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Six digits decide the tariff, the licence and the level of scrutiny. Getting them wrong is how controlled goods travel...
Weapons Intelligence (WEAPINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Every weapon carries a serial number and a paper trail from a factory to a legal export licence. Trafficking investigation...
CBRN Intelligence (CBRNINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear risk is monitored by an unusually open international architecture. The intelligence value is in reading...
Vehicle Intelligence (VEHINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
A vehicle is a seventeen-character identifier attached to an engine. Decode it properly and you get the plant, the year,...
Supply Chain Intelligence (SUPPLYINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
You do not have one supply chain. You have a tree of dependencies you have never enumerated, and your real...
Maritime Intelligence (MARINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Ships are legally required to announce themselves. The interesting behaviour is what happens in the minutes after a vessel stops...
Logistics Intelligence (LOGINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Goods leave a paper trail long before they leave the warehouse. Customs declarations, manifests and trade statistics describe physical movement...
Technical Intelligence (TECHINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Every device carries a confession: certification filings, component markings, firmware strings and design choices. Technical intelligence reads that confession to...
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...
Imagery Intelligence (IMINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
An image is a measurement, not a picture. Imagery intelligence extracts what can be measured, then defends out loud the...
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,...
Sanctions Intelligence (SANCINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
A sanctions hit is not a finding. It is the start of one, and the work is proving whether the...
Economic Intelligence (ECONINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Economic intelligence is how you see a disruption forming while it is still a shipping rate, an export licence and...
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...
Environmental Intelligence (ENVINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Physical conditions decide whether a site stays operational, whether a supplier ships, and whether a claim about the ground is...
Healthcare & Drug Security: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
A hospital that cannot access its imaging system diverts ambulances. A falsified antimalarial with no active ingredient kills quietly, one...
Maritime Security: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
The vessel reported itself in the Gulf of Oman. Radar put it alongside a sanctioned tanker four hundred miles away....
Food & Agricultural Security: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
The famine is declared months after the data said it was coming. Vegetation anomaly, staple price, and the first export...
