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Re:CIA Analyst Training Handbook (2000) [pdf] by joel_perl_prog on Sunday November 24, 2013 @04:38PM (#6791251)
It's mostly a style guide for writing short essays that will be read by decision-makers who are too busy to read. In reading over it, I felt like I it reminded me 50 times to lead with your bottom-line main point.

Also, be wary of any word with more than three syllables.

Best part I found were some sentences an editor had yanked out. Here are a couple (editor comments in parens):

"Production units that grow food." (Farms?)

"Inhabitants of food-deficient countries." (Hungry people?)

EDIT: *had yanked out of various analyst drafts

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