Editing KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation Review: Observations of an Interrogator (section)

== Bibliographic Reference==
The [[KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation|KUBARK manual]] includes an extensive bibliography, including a number of references produced by the notable researchers Biderman and Hinkle. Also included are several military documents pertaining to interrogation developed
at Fort Holabird, the former center for military HUMINT operational training. For security reasons, a number of references have been excised completely (evidenced only by the remaining entry number in the bibliography).
=== Findings ===
A careful examination of the [[KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation|KUBARK manual]] yields a wealth of potentially valuable concepts that either have the potential for immediate application in the development of a next generation of tactics, techniques, and procedures for educing information or that warrant further study by relevant professionals. While most of these have been identified previously, a few additional observations — some of which cross over two or more of the topics addressed earlier — merit specific comment.
* A theme that recurs in the [[KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation|KUBARK manual]] is that interrogation is defined both by its intensely interpersonal nature and intractably shaped by the unique personalities of both the interrogator and the source. This observation suggests both an important avenue of research as well as a notable caution. In describing interrogation as an “interpersonal” event, it offers social scientists an important sense of how to approach — at least initially — this complex activity. At the same time, it seems to offer a reminder that, in many important ways, each interrogation is unique and therefore one must be cautious in trying to apply a strategic template that would prove effective in each case.
* Because interrogation is a complex process, practitioners of the art of interrogation require extensive training and progressive, supervised experience to meet current and emerging operational requirements. From the moment of capture, the value of a given source’s knowledgeability begins to degrade as the gap in direct access to the information of intelligence interest widens and memory for detail diminishes. The windows of opportunity to gather information in response to priority intelligence requirements are finite, especially those involving high-value targets. In the course of an interrogation, errors in strategy, approach planning, and actions are in many instances irreversible.
* In seeking to identify an effective protocol for selecting and training a cadre of interrogators who would ultimately be able to perform at this level, the Intelligence Community might derive value from reviewing selection and training models for activities involving similarly intense psycho- physical operations (e.g., sports, martial arts, surgery, psychotherapy, etc.). Consideration might be given to modeling this internal-external reference dynamic as executed by high-performing individuals with the objective of designing methods for developing and enhancing the necessary supporting skills and strategies.
* The study of nonverbal communication highlights a central theme in the Educing Information study: How do we know what we know? Given that the search for timely, accurate, and responsive intelligence information from a source can be easily corrupted by the misreading of a single gesture or voice inflection, the importance of this avenue of research cannot be overstated.



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