[Shard] - Sosaria
[Type] - Reference
[Book] - Purple - 40 pages

[Title] - =Interrogation Methods=
[Author] - Lady Dhae Massirith

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-This book is bound in
black leather and
embossed with the design
of a barbed whip and a
dagger.-

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=Interrogation Methods=


"I am only going to ask
you this once.......but in a
hundred different ways."


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Interrogation is the art
of questioning and
examining a source in
order to obtain the
maximum amount of useful
information. The goal of
any interrogation is to
obtain useful and reliable

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information in a minimum
amount of time. The goal
of any source is to
deceive or hinder any
attempts of the
interrogator to get
information out of him or
her.


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The main factor in all
interrogation situations is
CONTROL. This governs
the capacity to cause or
change certain types of
human behavior by implying
or using physical or
psychological means to

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induce compliance.
Compliance may be
voluntary or involuntary.
Control can rarely be
established without control
of the environment. By
controlling the subject's
physical environment, we

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will be able to control his
psychological state of
mind.

The other factor being
coercion which must
contain at least three
important elements:

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debility, dependency, and
dread. People facing
coercion usually experience
emotional and motivational
reactions of intense fear
and anxiety.



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=Apprehension - Arrest=

The manner and timing of
arrest can also contribute
substantially to the
'questioner's' purpose and
should be planned to
achieve surprise and the

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maximum amount of
mental discomfort. He
should therefore be
arrested at a moment
when he least expects it
and when his mental and
physical resistance is at
its lowest. As to the

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manner of the arrest, it
is very important that
the arresting party
behave in such a manner
as to impress the
subject with their
efficiency.


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*The subject should be
rudely awakened and
immediately blindfolded and
bound....and should remain
so during the entire
processing.

*The subject should be

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required to comply
immediately and precisely
with all instructions.

*Total isolation should be
maintained until after the
first 'questioning' session.
Conditions can be

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adjusted after this
session.

*The subject should be
made to believe that he
has been forsaken by his
comrades.



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*Throughout his detention,
subject must be convinced
that his 'questioner'
controls his ultimate
destiny, and that his
absolute cooperation is
necessary for survival.


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=Threats and Fear=

The threat of coercion
usually weakens or
destroys resistance more
effectively than coercion
itself. For example, the
threat to inflict pain can

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trigger fears more
damaging than the
immediate sensation of
pain. In fact, most people
underestimate their
capacity to withstand
pain. In general, direct
physical brutality creates

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only resentment, hostility,
and further defiance. The
same principle holds for
other fears: sustained
long enough, a strong
fear of anything vague or
unknown induces
regression.

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It is not enough that a
resistant source should
placed under the tension
of fear; he must also
discern an acceptable
escape route. In brief,
the threat is like all
other coercive techniques


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in being most effective
when so used as to
foster regression and
when joined with a
suggested way out of the
dilemma, a rationalization
acceptable to the
interrogatee.

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The effectiveness of a
threat depends on the
personality of the
subject, whether he
believes the 'questioner'
can and will carry out
the threat, and on what
he believes to be the

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reason for the threat. A
threat should be delivered
coldly, not shouted in
anger, or made in
response to the subject's
own expressions of
hostility.


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The threat of death has
been found to be worse
than useless. The principal
reason, for this, is that
it often induces sheer
hopelessness; the subject
feels that he is as likely
to be condemned after

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compliance as before.
Some subjects recognize
that the threat is a
bluff and that silencing
them forever would
defeat the questioner's
purpose. If a subject
refuses to comply after


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a threat has been made,
it must be carried out.
Otherwise, subsequent
threats will also prove
ineffective.




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=Debility=

The available evidence
suggests that resistance
is sapped principally by
psychological rather than
physical pressures. The
threat of debility - for

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example, a brief
deprivation of food - may
induce much more anxiety
than prolonged hunger.





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=Pain=

In the simple torture
situation the contest is
one between the individual
and his tormentor and he
can frequently endure.
When the individual is

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told to stand at
attention for long periods,
an intervening factor is
introduced. The immediate
source of pain is not the
interrogator but the
victim himself. The
motivational strength of

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the individual is likely to
exhaust itself in this
internal encounter.






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=The Detection of
Malingering in a Subject=

The history of
interrogation is studded
with the stories of
persons who have
attempted, often

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successfully, to evade the
mounting pressures of
interrogation by feigning
physical or mental illness.
Most persons who feign a
mental or physical illness
do not know enough about
it to deceive the

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well-informed. In simulated
disorders, the onset is
usually fast and delusions
may be readily available.
The feigned psychosis
often contains many
contradictory and
inconsistent symptoms,

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rarely existing together.
The malingerer tends to
go to extremes in his
portrayal of his
symptoms; he exaggerates,
overdramatizes, grimaces,
shouts, is overly bizarre,
and calls attention to


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himself in other ways.
Another characteristic of
the malingerer is that he
will usually seek to evade
or postpone examination.

A good technique is to
pretend to take the

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deception seriously,
express grave concern,
and tell the "patient"
that the only remedy for
his illness is a series of
painful treatments or a
frontal lobotomy.