I was an analyst who used Sigint, Humint, Imint, and Osint. Most of the Sigint either sucked or was so tactical as to be useless to those of us working on the strat level. But some ... some was pure gold! Much of the Humint was attache reporting and much of that was garbage. But there were some real gems. I kept a report from Vernon Walters as DATT in Paris for several years as much for the entertainment value as for the intel value. Imint tended to be very good but didn't always show you stuff that was useful. Finally, our Osint was great press reporting - consstently the best stuff out there. But none of it stood up on its own. there was a reason we were considered and all source analysis org - multiple types of source were always better than one alone.

Cheers

JohnT

PS I'm not as old as Ken but in the same ballpark.