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DNI ADVISORS FAVOR NON-COERCIVE "INTELLIGENCE INTERVIEWING"

Intelligence personnel who are trying to elicit information from a
prisoner or a detainee can effectively do so in a non-coercive manner,
according to the Intelligence Science Board (ISB), an official advisory
group to the Director of National Intelligence.

"The United States and other democracies can benefit from exploring and
learning more in the area of non-coercive intelligence interviewing," the
Board said in a sequel to its December 2006 report on "Educing
Information" ("Intelligence Science Board Views Interrogation," Secrecy
News, January 15, 2007). That earlier study found that existing U.S.
intelligence interrogation practices were not scientifically well-founded.
"The study team could not discover an objective scientific basis for the
techniques commonly used by U.S. interrogators."

The newly disclosed follow-on report, dated April 2009, "is written
primarily for individuals concerned with 'high-value' detainees and those
who focus mainly on strategic interrogation." It provides a survey of
behavioral science perspectives on topics relevant to the interrogation
process -- including persuasion, power, stress, resistance, and memory --
as well as two case studies of actual interrogations.

A copy of the ISB report was obtained by Secrecy News. See "Intelligence
Interviewing: Teaching Papers and Case Studies," A Report from the Study
on Educing Information, Intelligence Science Board, April 2009 (211
pages).
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