Intelligence Analysis Resources
Core Databases
Use these databases to search across many journals on intelligence topics.
Other Databases - Issues of Interest
- Digital National Security ArchiveThe Digital National Security Archive contains the most comprehensive collection of primary documents available. The database includes more than 60,000 of the most important declassified documents regarding critical U.S. policy decisions.
- Jane's OnlineJane's provides news and analysis on security and defense equipment and technology.
- PolicyFile Public Policy Research and AnalysisPolicyFile provides abstracts and links to the latest reports, papers, and documents from 300 plus think tanks, research institutes, and agencies.
- Proquest CongressionalAn index of U.S. congressional publications, with abstracts and links to full-text documents and related sites. This database includes the following collections: Executive Branch Documents, 1789-1952; Executive Orders and Presidential Proclamations, 1789-2014; Legislative Histories 1960 - Present; Bills & Laws 1789 - Present; Committee Prints & Misc. Publications 1817 - Present; Congressional Record Bound Edition & Predecessors 1789 - 1999; Congressional Record Daily Edition 1985 - Present; Congressional Research Service Reports (CRS) 1916 - Present; Hearings 1824 - Present; House & Senate Documents 1817 - Present; House & Senate Reports 1817 - Present; Serial Set 1789 - Present; and Serial Set Maps 1789 - Present.
Faculty Recommended & Favorites
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JHU has electronic access from 1977-2021
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International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence
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JHU has electronic access since 1986
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JHU has electronic access since 1986
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JHU has electronic access since 2001
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JHU has electronic access since 1992
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Encyclopedias
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Encyclopedia of intelligence and counterintelligence
Encyclopedia of espionage, intelligence and security
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- Center for Naval AnalysisCNA's objective, empirical research and analysis helps decision makers develop sound policies, make better-informed decisions, and manage programs more effectively.
- Center for the Study of IntelligenceCSI’s core mission is to enhance the effectiveness of CIA and the Intelligence Community at large. CSI publishes a quarterly journal, books, monographs, documentary films, and web-based content.
- Cold War International History Project at the Woodrow Wilson CenterDigital Archive that contains many intelligence documents from the USSR, and other East Bloc countries. All are in their original language and many are translated. Begin by searching on “intelligence” or other key words.
- Federation of American Scientists - ReportsFAS reports provide detailed, technical analysis on specific security threats facing the world, and provide the public and policymakers with recommendations on how to address these threats.
- Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) seriesThe Foreign Relations of the United States series presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. The series, which is produced by the Department of State's Office of the Historian, began in 1861 and now comprises more than 450 individual volumes. The volumes published over the last two decades increasingly contain declassified records from all the foreign affairs agencies.
- HomeLand Security Digital LibraryThe Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) is the nation’s premier collection of documents related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management. The HSDL is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s National Preparedness Directorate, FEMA and the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security.
- Institute for Defense AnalysisThe Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) is a private, nonprofit corporation. IDA’s mission is to answer the most challenging U.S. security and science policy questions with objective analysis leveraging extraordinary scientific, technical, and analytic expertise.
- National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START)The National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism—better known as START—is a university-based research and education center comprised of an international network of scholars committed to the scientific study of the causes and human consequences of terrorism in the United States and around the world.
- National Geospatial - Intelligence AgencyNGA is a unique combination of intelligence agency and combat support agency. It is the world leader in timely, relevant, accurate and actionable GEOINT.
- National Security ArchiveFounded in 1985 by journalists and scholars to check rising government secrecy, the National Security Archive combines a unique range of functions: investigative journalism center, research institute on international affairs, library and archive of declassified U.S. documents ("the world's largest nongovernmental collection" according to the Los Angeles Times), leading non-profit user of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, public interest law firm defending and expanding public access to government information, global advocate of open government, and indexer and publisher of former secrets.
- Rand CorporationThe RAND Corporation is a research organization that develops solutions to public policy challenges to help make communities throughout the world safer and more secure, healthier and more prosperous. RAND is nonprofit, nonpartisan, and committed to the public interest.
- Correlates of War (COWCOW is a free database offering data sets on the history of war and international conflicts. Click on "Related Data" for links to additional sites of conflict-related data.
- Global Terrorism DatabaseThe Global Terrorism Database (GTD) is an open-source database including information on domestic and international terrorist events from 1970 through 2007 (with annual updates planned for the future).
- National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START)The National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism—better known as START—is a university-based research and education center comprised of an international network of scholars committed to the scientific study of the causes and human consequences of terrorism in the United States and around the world.
- Terrorism and Extremist Violence in the United States (TEVUS) DatabaseRequires free registration. Approval may take up to 7 days.
- Terrorism Research & Analysis Consortium (TRAC)Provides information about terrorist groups, individuals, ideologies, tactics, targets, and more
- Uniform Crime Reporting Program (FBI)Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program generates reliable statistics for use in law enforcement. It also provides information for students of criminal justice, researchers, the media, and the public. The program has been providing crime statistics since 1930.
- USA FactsUSAFacts is a not-for-profit, nonpartisan civic initiative making government data easy for all Americans to access and understand.
- World Factbook (CIA)Provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, environment, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.
- World News ConnectNot a subscription resource. Recommended by Faculty