Benedict was head of the basic analysis section, replacing anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer in the BUREAN of overseas intelligence (Caffrey 1989,318;Mead 1989,352).it was her that benedict finished Gorer's report on the burmese, her study of Thailand and her work on Japan 1989 among other
Benedict developed her own style of analysis for studing culture at a distance,which integrated published materrials with interviews.Margaret Mead described Benedirt's approach: