(TCC) West Coast Division P R E S E N T S: Interrogation Techniques for Fun and Profit! It is easy to intercept transmissions. But the human brain is still one of the safest places to keep information. This file will help you pull information from the body's greatest fortress. PAIN Pain used to be the most popular sort of interrogation. The thumb screw and the rack were famous for 'loosening a strong man's tounge'. Pain, however, is a two-edged weapon. Its infliction may bring quick results - but a man pushed to extremes of pain may babble anything his questioners wish to hear. Torture can also harden a few individuals. They may resist until death, or prove poor exhibits at a subsequent trail. Also torture can bring about negative propaganda towards the torturer. THE FIVE "S'" 1. STOP AND SEARCH: At checkpoints or random searches. Clothing is checked for weapons, and people are checked against photos to see if they are the suspects being searched for. 2. SEGREGATION: As soon as possible, suspects should be separated from one another. This helps to break down the suspect's will and allows statements may by other suspects to be checked. Also it reduced the possibility of two or more suspects cooperating together to come up with a clever plan of escape. 3. SILENCING: A bag put over the suspects head disorients and isolates the subject. (We will get into more of this later) 4. SPEED OF INTERROGATION: Initial 'safe' question throw a suspect off guard, and quick 'unsafe' questions may be answered unknowningly by the subject. 5. SAFEGUARD: Thick, steel, locked doors bar escape and crush the subject's will. You can also go further and handcuff the subject. When you handcuff a subject, make sure that the handcuffs are lock up and that the subject has his/her palms facing out. Place the handcuffs on the joint between the hand and the arm. This way, even if the subject happens to have a key, it makes it more difficult for the subject to escape. The object here is to crush the idea of escaping and making the subject feeling helpless. If you are going to bind the subject, make sure you do it right. Immobilize him by tying him up in a chair with both feet and hands. SENSORY DEPRIVATION In civil custody, the same isolation is used as a tool throughout many Western countries. Police forces can deny access to solicitors or friends on the grounds that information may be passed to the subject associates in crime. Techniques of sensory deprivation can aid the process of isolation. Hooded or crowned with an upturned bucket, the simple lack of light and vision can swiftly break a prisoner's grasp on normal realities. The use of "white noise" - a recording of sounds across the spectrum, not unlike the escape of hissing steam, blots out auditory contact with the world. Drugs used by Syrian captors on Israeli soldiers remove all sensations of sight, smell, hearing and touch, but left the brain active. To increase time disorientation, periods of lightness and darkness may be varied irregularly. Meals can be produced at odd intervals so a prisoner looses track of the days of captivity. Even before a formal interrogation has begun, the suspect has already lost contact with reality. Confusion and uncertainty are increased if his captors treat him with absolute "correctness". Many experts now regard such an approach as more effective than abuse or hostility towards a subject, which gives him a focus towards a subject and a recognizable opponent. The captors should reveal no emotion and not talk amongst themselves. They should restrict conversation with the prisoner to monosyllabic commands and orders. Since man is such a social animal, the surge of relief when he is led into a room and comforted by an apparent friend may overwhelm his determination to keep silent. SOFT MAN, HARD MAN The 'Hard Man, Soft Man' technique is definitely the most interesting form of non-drug interrogation to be produced in the twentieth century. It is basically this: One interrogator ('The Hard Man') is violent and unfriendly. He insults and may physically attack the subject. The other interrogator ('The Soft Man') is nice, friendly and compassionate. He may offer the subject something to eat or cigarettes. He also establishes a friendly relationship by opening a conversation, rather than conducting a question and answer period. One will hurt the subject, the other will comfort the subject and et al. Despite awareness of the game he is caught in, the prisoner finds it difficult not to relax and lower his guard with the 'Soft Man'. After this, is an easy task to get the subject to answer 'unsafe' questions. BREAKING ALLIANCES The toughest job of an interrogator is getting the prisoner to break faith with his friend or organization. He must convince him that his group has rejected him or that they have cooperated also, thus exonerating him from silence. As his most effective, the interrogator uses a mix of suggestion and deprivation to persuade the captive to identify with the new group the captor represents. MISC. Here are a few more ways of breaking down a person's will to resist. 1) Lack of sleep. 2) Sodium Penathol (Truth serum) 3) Dousing a subject with water and then subjecting him to electric shocks. I should warn you to make sure that you use low amperage, as ONE amp can kill a person that has been doused. 4) Staking the subject down over a gopher hole and then smoking the gopher out. 5) Keeping the subject constantly cold or hot. Well, that is about it from here. If you know of some more nice methods, pleas let me know at Pirate's Xchange or The Dead Zone. Pirate's Xchange - (805)/485-2913