• Third Annual European Conference & Exhibition, October 30 - November 1, 2006; Berlin, Germany. Mining the Internet’s Hidden Recesses for AML and Due Diligence Treasures.

• 2006 Security Officers Workshop, Philadelphia, PA. September 14, 2006. Password required.

• Law Enforcement Training Day, Seattle, WA. August 21, 2006. Password required.

• Affinity Fraud: What to do when victims won't talk by John Pyrik. Delivered April 26, 2006 to the Ottawa Chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE).

• Exploiting the Internet - and its 10 Billion Pages - for AML and Due Diligence Duties by John Pyrik. Delivered on Sept 29, 2005 at the 2nd Annual European Money Laundering Conference in Barcelona, Spain. Password required.

• Mastering the Internet to Fight Money Laundering by John Pyrik. Delivered on Sept. 9, 2005 at the ACAMS AGM & Conference in Toronto, Ontario.

• Internal AML Investigations: A Step-by-Step Approach and Case Management Skills by John Pyrik and Gary Clement. An ACAMS webcast seminar delivered on Aug 4, 2005.

• Cybersources, Open Source Intelligence, Quick Tips by Dave Inglis. Delivered on April 25, 2002 in Salt Lake City, Utah at the 12^th Annual Utah Gang Conference. Password required.

• Cybersources: Identifying and Profiling Human Sources Online by John Pyrik. Delivered on November 19, 2001 in Ottawa, Ontario at the National Organized Crime Workshop of the Criminal Intelligence Service of Canada. Password required.

• Ten Myths of the Internet by John Pyrik. Delivered in October 2000 in Esquimalt, BC at a meeting of the Greater Victoria Police Liaison Group.

• The Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook: A Guide for the Serious Searcher by Randolph Hock, Gary Price.

• Find It Online: The Complete Guide to Online Research by Alan M. Schlein.

• Harley Hahn Teaches the Internet by Harley Hahn. A good alternative if you do not like the "For Dummies ..." series.

• Get the Facts on Anyone by Dennis King.

• The Internet - Complete Reference by Harley Hahn & Rick Stout.

• How to Research Almost Anything: A Canadian Guide for Students, Consumers and Business by Stephen Overbury. Difficult to find.

• Finding Anyone, Anywhere, Anywhen by Noel Montgomery Elliot. Published by The Genealogical Research Library, Inc., 2005.

• The Internet for Dummies by John R. Levine, Carol Baroudi, and Margaret Levine Young. Comprehensive, well organized, and in plain language.

• Introduction to Internet Investigations, National White Collar Crime Centre (NW3C), March 2004. For law enforcement only.

• Investigating By Computer, 2nd Edition, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.

• Naked in Cyberspace: How to Find Personal Information Online by Carole A. Lane.

• The Reporter's Handbook : An Investigator's Guide To Documents and Techniques by Steve Weinberg.

• The Unauthorized Guide - the Internet (The insiders take on the Internet) by Shannon Turlington.

• Your Secrets Are My Business by Kevin McKeown, Dave Stern.

Analysis

• Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Martin Fridson, Josef De LA Vega, Martin S. Fridson, Marketplace Books. You can buy the book or read the 1841 version online.

• High Technology Crime Investigator's Handbook by Gerald L. Kovacich, William C. Boni.

• IALEIA Analytical Reference. A reading list on criminal intelligence analysis.

• Turn-Key Intelligence, National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C).

• Psychology of Intelligence Analysis by Richards J. Heuer, Jr. You can buy the book or read it online.

Asset Tracing

• Big Money: A Financial Investigations Resource, National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C).

• Hide Your Assets and Disappear: A Step-by-Step Guide to Vanishing Without a Trace by Edmund Pankau.

• How to Move Assets Offshore for Privacy, Protection, and Tax Advantage by Arnold Cornez.

• Making Crime Pay: How to Locate Hidden Assets, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.

• Take Your Money and Run by Alex Doulis, Uphill Publishing, 1994. Out of date now, but a Canadian classic.

Competitive Intelligence

• The Art and Science of Business Intelligence Analysis by Ben Gilad and Jan Herring. Heavy reading. For the truly committed only.

• Competitive Intelligence : How to Gather, Analyze, and Use Information to Move Your Business to the Top by Larry Kahaner.

• The Complete Guide to Competitive Intelligence (2nd Edition) by Kirk W. M. Tyson

• Confidential: Uncover Your Competitors' Top Business Secrets Legally and Quickly -- and Protect Your Own by John Nolan.

• The New Competitor Intelligence by Leonard Fuld. Buy the book or read any of six free chapters online.

• Real World Intelligence by Herbert E. Meyer, Storm King Press, Friday Harbour, Washington. 1991. "Business intelligence is radar for business," writes Meyer. With this analogy, he may be stating the obvious, but he does so in clear and convincing terms that will be useful to anyone trying to convince their boss or board of the merits of applying the intelligece cycle to business.

• Super Searchers on Competitive Intelligence: The Online and Offline Secrets of Top CI Researchers by Margaret Metcalf Carr, Reva Basch.

Critical Thinking

• The Art of Deception by Nicholas Capaldi.

• Asking the Right Questions : A Guide to Critical Thinking by M. Neil Browne, Stuart M. Keeley.

• Attacking Faulty Reasoning : A Practical Guide to Fallacy-Free Arguments by T. Edward Damer.

• Becoming a Critical Thinker by T. Edward Damer.

• Clear Thinking: A Practical Introduction by Hy Ruchlis.

• Dictionary Of Common Fallacies by Philip Ward.

• The Difference Between Truth And Opinion: How The Misuse Of Language Can Lead To Disaster by Timothy J. Cooney.

• How To Lie With Statistics by Darrell Huff.

• How We Know What Isn't So by T. Gilovich.

• Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy And Its Consequences by John Allen Paulos.

• It Ain't Necessarily So: How Media Make and Unmake the Scientific Picture of Reality by David Murray, Joel Schwartz and S. Robert Lichter.

• The Power of Logical Thinking by Marilyn vos Savant.

Cyberskepticism

• Evaluating Quality on the Net by Hope N. Tillman, Director of Libraries, Babson College, Babson Park, MA.

• The Skeptical Business Searcher: The Information Advisor's Guide to Evaluating Web Data, Sites, and Sources by Robert Berkman, Reva Basch.

• Web of Deception: Misinformation on the Internet by Anne P. Mintz.

• Web Wisdom by Jan Alexander and Marsha Ann Tate. Very practical.

How to Run a Research Business

• Building & Running a Successful Research Business: A Guide for the Independent Information Professional by Mary Ellen Bates, Reva Basch

• Information Brokering: A How-To-Do-It Manual by Florence Mason, Chris Dobson, Christopher S. A. Dobson

• The Information Broker's Handbook by Sue Rugge, Alfred Glossbrenner

• Super Searchers Make It On Their Own: Top Independent Information Professionals Share Their Secrets for Starting and Running a Research Business (Super Searchers Series) by Suzanne Sabroski, Reva Basch

Interviewing

• It's An Art! Obtaining Information By Telephone by Washington Researchers. Full text article by the experts in the field.

• Reading People : How to Understand People and Predict Their Behavior - Anytime, Anyplace, Jo-Ellen Dimitrius and Mark Mazzarella.

• Super Searchers Go to the Source: The Interviewing and Hands-On Information Strategies of Top Primary Researchers-Online, on the Phone, and in Person by Risa Sacks, Reva Basch

Invisible Web

• The Invisible Web: Uncovering Information Sources Search Engines Can't See by Chris Sherman and Gary Price.

Locate Anyone

• The Complete Idiot's Guide to Private Investigating by Steven Kerry Brown.

• Find Anyone Fast by Richard S. Johnson, Debra Johnson Knox.

• FINDsomeone.com by R. Scott Grasser.

• How to Create a New Identity by Anonymous.

• The Investigator's Little Black Book 3 by Robert Scott.

• Reborn in Canada: Personal Privacy through a New Identity by Trent Sands. Difficult to find. He also wrote Reborn in the USA.

• You Can Find Anybody! by Joseph Culligan.

Public Records

• Find Public Records Fast: The Complete State, County, and Courthouse Locator by Michael L. Sankey, Carl R. Ernst

• Sourcebook to Public Record Information edited by Michael Sankey.