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was your work in the area of social psychology, did
2 it deal with this?
3 A Yes. The subject of police interrogation is
4 one that runs through other areas that I have been
5 working in, and so it's generally recognized that
6 some forms of extreme influence actually developed
7 out of police interrogation tactics and were then
8 utilized in a broader form.
9 Q How, in fact, did your earlier work deal or
10 evidence part of it the techniques that police use
11 in interrogation?
12 A Well, the literature that dealt with these
13 subjects starts out with the analysis of police
14 interrogation, because thats where these procedures
15 evolved from.
16 Q Can you be specific? What are you referring
17 to?
18 A Specifically, the study of whats called
19 coercive persuasion or thought reform, which are the
20 extreme techniques brought to bear on individuals
21 for eliciting false confessions as practiced by the
22 Soviets after the revolution in China written by --
23 an article by Hinkle and Wolf on Chinese
24 interrogation tactics, and then in the work of
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1 Robert Lefton, dealing with interrogation and
2 coercive persuasion or thought reform in China after
3 the revolution there. This subject matter runs