Psychology of Intel.pdf (2.0 MB)
Psychology of Intelligence Analysis
By Richards J. Heuer, Jr.
Books about intelligence work, and also some books by investigative journalists that stand as exemplars for intel products (or disagree and bring yourn!)
Threat intelligence tradecraft and skills
- The Psychology of Intelligence Analysis, Richards Heuer (1999) (dated) (GP)
- “A Tradecraft Primer: Structured Analytic Techniques
for Improving Intelligence Analysis”: https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/static/Tradecraft-Primer-apr09.pdf CIA.gov (2009) - Structured Analytic Techniques for Intelligence Analysis, Heuer et al (2019) (current textbook)
- Hunting Enemies at Home and Abroad: How to be a Counterintelligence Officer, William R. Johnson (1987)
Investigative Journalism vs Cybersec threats:
- Spam Nation, Brian Krebs (2015) (cyber crime, fraud and spam)
- Countdown to Zero Day , Kim Zetter (2015) (Stuxnet / OLYMPIC GAMES)
- Sandworm, Andy Greenberg (2020)(Bears)
- This is How They Tell Me the World Ends, (2023) Nicole Perlroth
Believe it or not, this Packt book is a very, very solid starter for the day-to-day and some of the habits of mind.
Not a book, but Indicator Media is two journos who have pivoted to teaching other journos how to do digital investigations. Some really good synergies that they’ve identified. Resources | Indicator
I can’t upload yet, but there is Sabotage field manual declassified and released by the CIA a few years ago.
I’ve made a MarkDown version but it’s not cleaned up yet and looks weird. I’m happy to publish to GIT or something if someone wants to help me clean it up.
It discusses offensive ways to sabotage systems/environments/people by exploiting the environment around you and peoples natural tendencies.
I’m not sure if it’s relevant here, but it’s offensive and should be understood.
Hope this helps and is appropriate. 
Thanks! The always-wonderful Project Gutenberg also has HTML, EPUB, and plaintext of it: