Sherman Kent

Sherman Kent , born on December 6th, 1903 and dead on March 11th, 1986, is a Historien and Analyste of the American Renseignement. He was a professor of history to the Université Yale which initiated many methodologies of analysis of information, during the Second world war. He is often described in the United States as the father of the analysis of information .

Sherman Kent was useful initially in the Research department and analyzes OS (Office of the strategic services American), where it followed the North-African businesses. In this work, it mainly outlined the process indicated today like information of preparation of the battle field , in 1942, supports of it planning of the Opération Torch (invasion by the Allies of the French Maghreb)

In the community of the American information, Kent played a key function starting from its entry in the CIA. It formalized analytical tools and methodologies, and called with the creation of a literature of the information like tool for transfer of the knowledge and the experiment between the generations of analysts. One of its most known work is the formalization of the vocabulary of the evaluation (estimate of reliability and probability).

Kent taken its retirement of the CIA in 1967 and died in 1986.

Public works

Strategic Intelligence for American World Policy , 1949-1966
Inteligencia Estrategica ??
“has Crucial Estimate Relived. ” in Studies in Intelligence 8, No 2 (1964) and 36, No 5 (1992).

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