KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation/INTRODUCTION
| Project Name : | KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation |
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| Inception Date: | July 1963 |
| Related Links : | KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation |
INTRODUCTION
This manual cannot teach anyone how to be, or become, interrogator. At best it can help readers to avoid the characteristic mistakes of poor interrogators.
It's purpose is to provide guidelines for KUBARK interrogation, and particularly the counterintelligence interrogation of resistant sources. Designed as an aid for interrogator• and others immediately concerned, It is based largely upon the published results of extensive research, including scientific inquiries conducted by specialists in closely related subjects.
There is nothing mysterious about interrogation. It consists of no more than obtaining needed information through response s to questions. As is true of all craftsmen, some interrogators are more able than others: and some o£ their superiority may be innate. But sound interrogation nevertheless rests upon a knowledge of the subject matter and on certain broad principles, chiefly psychological, which are not hard to understand. The success of good interrogators depends in large measure upon their use, conscious or not, of these principles and of processes and techniques deriving from them. Knowledge oi subject matter and of the basic principles will not o£ itself create a successful interrogation, but it will make possible the avoidance of mistakes that are characteristic of poor interrogation. The purpose. then, is not to teach the reader how to be a good interrogator but rather to tell him what he must learn in order to become a. good interrogator.
