One stop interrogation & interviewing resource

[davidbfpo]

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Five threads have been merged here, some are quite old. The title is unchanged. There are a number of threads on the related debate on the use of torture (un-merged as yet).

Prompted by reading an article that will become a new thread later today and one day likely to be merged here (Ends).

[davidbfpo]

Interrogation,, whether of suspects or witnesses, is a fascinating subject and this article is a good summary of where research is today:http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/20...interrogation/

Cut & paste didn't work, so have a peek!

I was somewhat puzzled that the Cognitive Method was only just being adopted by some LE agencies, it has been around here for at least thirty years.

There is a main thread for the subject.

[davidbfpo]

Within a legal setting this article are several passages and links on interrogation - notably HIG's work:

There is also a 46-page HIG booklet that offers an accessible view into the various controlled investigations completed, underway, and on the horizon. In general, the results (unsurprisingly) indicate that rapport-building approaches draw out more credible information than control-based (or coercive) methods.

Link to article:https://www.justsecurity.org/29273/a...-genuine-step/

Link to HIG booklet:http://online.fliphtml5.com/xaga/cwpt/#p=45

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Brussels Attacks Were A Terrorist Interrogation Failure

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Notes on Tactical Use of Qualitative Interviewing

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[davidbfpo]

A new online magazine from CREST, a UK academic body on security, has several short articles on Information Elicitation. Including one on the Luftwaffe ace interrogator Hans Scharff (who appears on a few threads here).

Link:https://crestresearch.ac.uk/resource...ue-1-flipbook/

The Scharff article is by a Swedish PhD student, his thesis was 'Eliciting human intelligence: A conceptualization and empirical testing of the Scharff technique' and is available - free - on:https://gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/41567

[davidbfpo]

A 'Long Read' article in The Guardian, rated by Professor John Horgan as 'a must read' and sub-titled:

Expert interrogators know torture doesn’t work – but until now, nobody could prove it. By analysing hundreds of top-secret interviews with terror suspects, two British scientists have revolutionised the art of extracting the truth.

A succinct explanation:

The Alisons, husband and wife, have done something no scholars of interrogation have been able to do before. Working in close cooperation with the police, who allowed them access to more than 1,000 hours of tapes, they have observed and analysed hundreds of real-world interviews with terrorists suspected of serious crimes. No researcher in the world has ever laid hands on such a haul of data before. Based on this research, they have constructed the world’s first empirically grounded and comprehensive model of interrogation tactics.

Link:https://www.theguardian.com/news/201...their-secrets?

There are two related threads:One stop interrogation & interviewing resource (which is open, with 98 posts and 87k views) and an older, closed thread (with 162 posts and 168k views):The US & Interrogation (catch all)

Earlier this week 'The Guardian' has a longer, grim article 'Inside the CIA's black site torture site', which was in Afghanistan. It is based on:

274 documents the CIA and Pentagon were forced to declassify and release during pre-trial discovery. These documents, many of them scheduled to be entered as exhibits at trial, provide the fullest picture yet of what the three men suffered in that secret CIA dungeon – and of how fatefully their lives intersected with the rise and fall of James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, the men who designed the torture regime.

Link:https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...-interrogation

[davidbfpo]

Via a pointer in an academic journal the link is to a 2hr 39m video recorded interview in 2010 conducted by the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) of a Canadian Air Force Colonel Russell Williams, a suspected serial killer and rapist. The video intro starts with:

Here is a masterful deconstruction: A confident and cocky military man strode into the interview room and a broken and degenerate killer and sexual sadist shuffled out, after being prompted to confess his shocking crimes, as I wrote about it when I covered the case in 2010.

Link to video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsLbDzkIy3A and background:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russel...ams_(criminal)

[davidbfpo]

A much delayed update after Post 92 and somehow the publication in 2016 was missed.

The catalyst being a Twitter exchange on a certain nominee's appearance before Congress. Overwhelmed and confused by all this talk about torture and so-called “Enhanced Interrogation”? Try this resource:

HIG Interrogation Best Practices Report: This report was prepared by the FBI-administered High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group and summarizes best practices for interrogation that do not involve the use of force.

Link:https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/...-2016.pdf/view

[davidbfpo]

Listened today at a local crime conference to Christian Meissner, a Professor of Psychology at Iowa State University and this is a pointer to his work @ Iowa State:https://appcoglab.psych.iastate.edu/

He has two experienced colleagues; one ex-US Army SOF and from his bio:

Mr. Phillips serves as a member of the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group Research Committee, and he works with the Applied Cognition Laboratory to validate and translate scientific research into meaningful best practices for current and next-generation practitioners.

The other is ex-USAF:

...one of the most prolific interrogators during the first Gulf War.....founding member and Chair of the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group Research Committee....

A book list:https://appcoglab.psych.iastate.edu/...interrogation/

[davidbfpo]

A 'Long Read' that focuses on an Anglo-American pair of researchers working in this area and sub=titled:

Expert interrogators know torture doesn’t work – but until now, nobody could prove it. By analysing hundreds of top-secret interviews with terror suspects, two British scientists have revolutionised the art of extracting the truth.

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/news/201...-their-secrets