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Directive No. 1/76 on the Development and Revision of Operational Procedures, which outlined the use of Zersetzung in the Ministry for State Security. The Ministry for State Security (German: Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, MfS), commonly known as the Stasi, was the main security service of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany or GDR), and defined Zersetzung in its 1985 dictionary ...
Their mother, they claimed, was an innocent victim of Stasi interrogation and torture. They said her confessions were false and taken under duress, and that she had suffered enough regardless. They said she had been in prison, away from her family and grieving her executed husband, for nearly 30 years.
SERE training camp at Fort Bragg.Captain Michael Kearns, Psychologist Bruce Jessen (right) John Bruce Jessen (born July 28, 1949) [1] is an American psychologist who, with James Elmer Mitchell, created the so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" that were used in the interrogation and torture of CIA detainees [2] and outlined in the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's ...
The PEACE method of investigative interviewing is a five stage [1] [2] process in which investigators try to build rapport and allow a criminal suspect to provide their account of events uninterrupted, before presenting the suspect with any evidence of inconsistencies or contradictions.
The technique of interrogation seems to closely follow the Reid Technique, which is a long-established nine-step procedure that uses psychological manipulation to extract a confession. [4] [5] While sequences of video from this interrogation are at the center of this documentary, there are also interviews with key individuals in the case. [3]
Covert interrogation can refer to several interrogation techniques. [1] An example is the covert questioning of a subject in a neutral public place where people innocuously gather, with the intention of the unsuspecting subject not comprehending that the interrogation is occurring. The covert interrogator may present themselves toward an ...
Many of these techniques are against international law if used in interrogations. [1] In such interrogation sessions, the subjects must maintain dead silence regardless of the practice being inflicted on them. Only three pieces of information can be surrendered: name, rank and serial number.
According to a declassified 1989 report prepared for the Senate intelligence committee, the 1983 manual was developed from notes of a CIA interrogation course in Honduras. [11] Both manuals deal exclusively with interrogation. [12] [13] Both manuals have an entire chapter devoted to "coercive techniques". These manuals recommend arresting ...