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Educing Information: Interrogation - National Intelligence University

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A psychiatrist chronicles the decline of his father, who was subjected<br />

to mind control experiments funded by the CIA. This chapter provides<br />

the history of mind control in the United States and surveys the major<br />

research programs and scientists involved.<br />

Winter, A. (2005). “The Making of ‘Truth Serum’.” Bulletin of the History of<br />

Medicine 79, 500-533.<br />

This essay gives a history of “truth serums” such as scopolamine,<br />

focusing on the social and cultural forces that led to their acceptance in<br />

the 1920s and 1930s. Mesmerism and hypnotism set the stage for belief<br />

in a confessional state. Psychology, as an emerging discipline, was<br />

vulnerable to unproven ideas, including the reliability and permanence<br />

of memory. The general public, concerned about crime and corruption<br />

and swayed by the power of scientific discovery, was eager to embrace<br />

“truth serums” as scientifically sound.<br />

Wolff, H. G. (1960). “Every Man Has His Breaking Point.” Military Medicine<br />

85-104.<br />

This report debates whether every man has a breaking point and<br />

examines U.S. government policies on POW behavior. It reports on<br />

the frequency of collaboration and resistance in the WWI, WWII,<br />

and the Korean War. It discusses why prisoners talk and compares<br />

combat-related breaking points to psychological POW breaking points.<br />

In addition, it highlights the role of character and commitment to<br />

resistance behavior.<br />

<strong>Interrogation</strong> as Dialogue<br />

Walton, D. (2003). “The <strong>Interrogation</strong> as a Type of Dialogue.” Journal<br />

of Pragmatics 35, 1771-1802. http://io.uwinnipeg.ca/~walton/<br />

papers%20in%20pdf/03interrogationdialogue.pdf. Accessed 5/8/2006.<br />

This analysis examines the methods and techniques of argumentation<br />

that are used in interrogation. <strong>Interrogation</strong> is classified as a hybrid<br />

type of dialogue employing both deliberation and information-seeking.<br />

Characterized by both deception and coercion, it is asymmetric in<br />

nature as one party has power and the other is passive. A normative<br />

model of interrogation is presented.<br />

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