Educing Information: Interrogation - National Intelligence University

Bond, M. (2004). “The Prisoner.” New Scientist, 20 November.
After interviewing Michael Koubi, Michael Bond interviews a
Palestinian woman about her interrogation by Koubi after she was
arrested while trying to smuggle sensitive photographs across the
border. She describes the techniques Koubi used to try to get her to talk.
Hoffman, B. (2002). “A Nasty Business.” The Atlantic Monthly, 289 (1), January,
49-52.
A terrorism expert, Hoffman illustrates the complexity of gathering
human intelligence from insurgents. He uses the Battle of Algiers and
Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka as case studies.
Mackey, C., and Miller, G. (2004). The Interrogators: Inside the Secret War
against Al Qaeda. New York: Little, Brown.
In this memoir, a senior interrogator details the U.S. Army interrogation
operation, including interrogation training at Fort Huachuca, language
training at the Defense Language Institute, and deployment as an
interrogator in Afghanistan. This narrative covers interrogation
strategies and case studies; collection priorities and findings; report
writing and analysis; and the relationships between military intelligence
services, and domestic and foreign civil intelligence agencies. The
motivations of detainees from different ethnic groups are also examined.
Pribbenow, M. L. (2004). “The Man in the Snow White Cell.” Studies
in Intelligence, 48 (1).
http://www.cia.gov/csi/studies/vol48no1/article06.html
[Accessed 5/8/2006]
Nguyen Tai, the most senior North Vietnamese officer captured in the
Vietnam War, was interrogated by both the U.S. and South Vietnamese
using a variety of strategies. He spent the last three years in a white
cell, lit around the clock by bright lights, and kept at cold temperatures.
This case study provides a history of Tai’s capture and interrogation as
well as his remarkable strength in concealing his knowledge of North
Vietnamese operations.
Pryor, F. L. (1994/1995). “On Reading My Stasi Files.” National Interest, Winter.
From 1959 through 1961 the author lived in West Berlin, writing his
doctoral dissertation for Yale University on the foreign trade system of
the Soviet bloc, using East Germany as a case study. While traveling to
East Berlin, he was arrested and charged with espionage and released
five months later. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Stasi files became
open. The author reviews his files, examining the motives of the Stasi
and the methods used in his interrogation.
314