Past Intelligence Failure

n Unit II, you were directed to select a topic in which intelligence analysis had been blamed for an intelligence failure event in the 20th and 21st centuries (1940s to present). You are tasked with completing a research paper on this past intelligence failure that you selected during the Unit II assignment.
Conduct your research based on your selected intelligence failure topic. Ensure you assess the intelligence failure by addressing the following questions.
What was the failure, and what role did intelligence analysis (process, function, and profession) play leading to the failure in this event?
What was the primary U.S. intelligence agency or service and the foreign intelligence service (from another country) involved?
What was the intelligence discipline (HUMINT, SIGINT, etc.) that played a role in the failure, if any?
What were any government findings of the failure?
What would the intelligence analyst do today to mitigate a future failure?
Discuss the employment of mitigation for bias and assumptions by using tools and techniques discussed in the course.
Include a summary.
Your research paper must be a minimum of four pages in length not counting title and references pages (title and references pages do not count toward the minimum page requirement). You must use an introduction. You must include at least the three scholarly sources that were used for the research topic. You may use additional resources, including your textbook, to support your research. You may not use the news, media, or Wikipedia as a source. You may use the Federation of American Scientists (FAS.org) and GlobalSecurity.org for this research.

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