OPCW Chemical Weapons: Intelligence Source Guide
The OPCW implements the Chemical Weapons Convention: declarations, industry inspections, stockpile destruction verification, and the investigative machinery that has attributed...
WMD / Proliferation
IAEA Incident & Trafficking DB: Intelligence Source Guide
The IAEA Incident and Trafficking Database is the authoritative record of nuclear and radioactive material out of regulatory control -...
CTBTO Monitoring: Intelligence Source Guide
The CTBTO operates a global, purpose-built network for detecting nuclear explosions using seismic, hydroacoustic, infrasound and radionuclide sensors. Its bulletins...
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...
Satellite Imagery: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Overhead imagery does not tell you what happened. It tells you what changed between two dates, and the analyst supplies...
Facility / Site: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A facility is where corporate paper meets physical reality. Registries tell you who claims the site; the ground truth tells...
GPS Coordinates: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Six decimal places is a doorstep. Two is a district. Precision in a coordinate is a decision about harm, not...
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...
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...
Measurement & Signature Intel (MASINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Imagery shows you the object. Measurement and signature intelligence tells you what the object is doing, how hot it is...
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...
Academic Intelligence (ACADINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Research output is the earliest public indicator of national and corporate capability. A capability appears in a paper years before...
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...
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...
Biosecurity & Pandemic: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
The first signal is almost never a laboratory confirmation. It is a rural clinic ordering more oxygen than usual, a...
Military & Defense: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Order of battle used to be a classified product. Now a unit's deployment is visible from insignia in a soldier's...
WMD / Proliferation: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Proliferation networks do not buy weapons. They buy vacuum pumps, maraging steel, frequency converters and flow-forming machines, each individually unremarkable...
Counter-Terrorism: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Attack planning leaves a logistics trail before it leaves an ideological one: a rented van, a chemical purchase, a reconnaissance...
Sanctions Evasion: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Sanctions evasion leaves a documentary shadow: a new intermediary in a familiar corridor, a vessel that stops transmitting for eleven...
Weapons Trafficking: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Most weapons in an illicit market were legal once. The investigative question is not where the gun came from but...
Nation State: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
State activity rarely arrives labelled. It surfaces as a procurement order routed through a third-country freight forwarder, a research institute...
