Randolph H. Pherson

[entity_type::person] [role::intelligence-analyst-educator]

Co-author (with Richards j. heuer jr.) of Structured Analytic Techniques for Intelligence Analysis (multiple editions), published by SAGE/College Publishing. The primary book-length reference for the full SAT toolkit — broader in scope than the CIA Tradecraft Primer (2009), which covers only 12 techniques.

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Key Work

Heuer, R.J. Jr. & Pherson, R.H. Structured Analytic Techniques for Intelligence Analysis (3rd ed.). SAGE/College Publishing.

Includes techniques not in the CIA Tradecraft Primer, such as Starbursting.

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Mentioned In

• Roberts: LLM SATs FTW (2025) (cited as methodology source)