Re: Military Interrogation [OT]

> Glover, Owen wrote:
> 
> > If anyone is really interested in reading about interrogation try a
book
> > called "The Interrogator" about Hans Joachim Schaffe an interrogator
in the
> > German Luftwaffe in WWII; well accepted as the most effective
interrogator
> > in the war. It was required reading on my course.
> 
> There was a recent article in the Post magazine on police
> interrogators.  Apparently the most common technique is to start a
> conversation on whatever the subject is willing to talk about--sports,
> for instance.  Then you just gradually shift the conversation to the
> crime and the subject may just sort of slip up.  Once he's started
> talking, the point where he should stop might pass by unnoticed.  This
> is apparently why the US military teaches Name, Rank, SSN, Date of
> Birth.  Start talking about anything else and it's too easy to slip
into
> damaging territory.
> 
> John M. Atkinson