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Educing Information: Interrogation - National Intelligence University

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Contractors – Prior-Service Military<br />

Advantages<br />

• May have clearances<br />

• Can be available on short notice for common languages<br />

• Do not need to manage their careers<br />

Disadvantages: Varying Quality<br />

• Lack of quality translates into intelligence gaps<br />

• Support affected by money, danger, etc. (may quit or strike)<br />

• Without oversight, can be high cost and/or low quality<br />

• Possible labor disputes: Berlitz strike in 1967 Vietnamese program<br />

• Noncombatants and only some have clearances<br />

• Not long-term solution for foreign language capability<br />

Contractors – Native<br />

Advantages:<br />

• Available for local languages and dialects<br />

• Do not need to manage their careers<br />

Disadvantages:<br />

• Lack of quality translates into intelligence gaps<br />

• Often different political agenda and varying degrees of translation<br />

accuracy<br />

• Opportunity for enemy intelligence penetration<br />

• Monopoly over information<br />

• Can quit over money, danger, politics, etc.<br />

• Noncombatants without clearances<br />

• Not long-term solution for foreign language capability<br />

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