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// Treadstone 71 · Cyber & Strategic Intelligence

Intelligence tradecraft, built and taught since 2002.

Cognitive warfare. Counterintelligence. Structured analytic techniques. Deception planning. Treadstone 71 turns two decades of tradecraft into training, advisory work, and four working intelligence instruments that run in the browser.

24
Years, since 2002
4
Working instruments
3
Field books
1
Tradecraft
// The instruments

Four working instruments

Not slideware. Each runs in the browser, carries the full method, and holds the standard taught in the Treadstone 71 classroom. They are provisioned to the teams Treadstone 71 trains and advises.

Structured analysis

ASA Platform

Advanced structured analytic techniques in one workspace. Build a judgment, weigh it against its alternatives, and defend it with the evidence trail that earned it.

Operations

Cyber Operations Order Workbench

Build a cyber operations order the way an operations shop does: roles, terrain, authority, rules of engagement, and the measures that prove effect. It does not release until authority is named.

Counterintelligence

Deception Planning Workbench

Plan a deception backward from the effect you want, monitor it in play, and train the harder half: detecting and defeating the deception aimed at you. A legal gate keeps it inside the law.

Information defense

Dirty Tricks Detector

Name manipulation as it happens. Spot the move, counter it in good faith, and check you are not running it yourself. A counterintelligence reflex trainer for the information fight.

// The firm

Veteran and Woman-owned. Global Reach. Working since 2002.

Treadstone 71 has taught and delivered cyber and strategic intelligence tradecraft for more than two decades, to teams across the United States, Europe, and beyond. The work covers cognitive warfare, cyber counterintelligence, clandestine cyber HUMINT, structured analytic techniques, deception planning, geopolitical analysis, and analytic writing.

Cognitive Warfare Cyber Counterintelligence Structured Analytic Techniques Deception Planning Influence Operations Clandestine Cyber HUMINT OSINT Geopolitical Intelligence
Founded2002
BasedHalf Moon Bay, California, USA
ServesUnited States, Europe, worldwide
FounderJeffrey Bardin, Chief Intelligence Officer
FocusCyber and strategic intelligence tradecraft
// Questions

Common questions

Treadstone 71 is a woman-owned, veteran-led cyber and strategic intelligence training and advisory firm founded in 2002. It teaches and delivers cognitive warfare, counterintelligence, structured analytic techniques, deception planning, clandestine cyber HUMINT, and geopolitical analysis.

Cognitive warfare is the contest over perception and decision. It uses narrative, influence, and deception to shape what a target believes and does. Treadstone 71 teaches both sides of it: building the effect within the law, and detecting and defeating the effect aimed at you.

Four browser-based working instruments: the ASA Platform for structured analysis, the Cyber Operations Order Workbench for cyber operations orders, the Deception Planning Workbench for planning and countering deception, and the Dirty Tricks Detector for naming manipulation in real time. Each carries the full method and holds the standard taught in the classroom.

Jeffrey Bardin is the founder and Chief Intelligence Officer of Treadstone 71, with a career in military cryptology and counterintelligence and more than two decades of intelligence engagements. He is the author of three field books on people intelligence, structured analytic techniques, and multi-domain cyber operations.

The instruments sit behind the Treadstone 71 members area. They travel with the work Treadstone 71 does for the teams it trains and advises. A program that wants to put them to use starts that conversation through the members area or by contacting Treadstone 71.

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Training, advisory work, and the working instruments that carry the method. Start the conversation and we will find the right fit.

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