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Studies in Intelligence Vol. 69, No. 4 (Extracts, December 2025)

The Solitary Intelligence Officer: Reflections on Secure Remote Work

By John Mohr, a DoD analyst

Working from Afar

Can intelligence analysts work effectively in a secure remote environment that is geographically removed from their team by hundreds of miles? I have spent the past three years demonstrating this construct can work, as a senior intelligence officer in Colorado as part of a Washington, DC-based analytic team. My arrangement—secure remote work—is different from telework from home, which has dominated conversations about what workers, consumers, and employers learned about work during the pandemic.

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