This call for research comes from the High Value Detainee Interrogation Group — part of the FBI that generally keeps itself to itself. It’s a specialist unit that prides itself on using the most advanced methods of interrogation to elicit information from detainees, most commonly about terrorist attacks.

This new call for research, then, is a way of ensuring that its methods stay firmly at the cutting edge. In particular, it details some specific areas of interest:

• Surveys and structured interviews of interrogators, intelligence interviewers and debriefers specified by the Government in order to document what these operational personnel think works and does not work and the development of operationally-based best practices which may be later investigated via laboratory or field studies;
  
• Development, testing and evaluation of metrics for assessing the efficacies of interrogations, intelligence interviews and debriefs and of the use of particular interrogation, intelligence interview and debrief strategies and methods;
  
• Field quasi-experimental studies to evaluate the efficacy of new evidence-based interrogation, intelligence interview and debrief strategies and methods;
  
• Laboratory studies to test and/or discover new interrogation, intelligence interview and debrief methods;
  
• Laboratory or field studies to assess the validity of evidence-based interviewing, deception detection, and other relevant principles and/or methods across non-U.S. populations both with and without the use of interpreters;
  
• Laboratory or field studies on fundamental psychological processes (to include but not be limited to decision-making, emotion, motivation, memory, persuasion, social identities and social development) as these are relevant to interrogations, intelligence interviews and debriefs;
  
• Laboratory or field studies of interpersonal processes (e.g., social influence, persuasion, negotiation, conflict resolution and management), with particular attention to cultural and intercultural issues.

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I wrote the underpinnings of a system to do this literally TWENTY years ago.

The first iteration was an algorithm called ACQUISITIVE – which inferred relationships between data elements, then made least risk extrapolations to most likely outomes – then recursed etc… with frankly quite scary results.

This later became FREEDOM – a multidiensional data repository that allows many-to-many relationships infinitely in any direction and depth of recusrsion. A friendly applicaion of the ACQUISITIVE core principles.

Both were so far ahead of their time, that it was easy to demonstrate, but impossible to get serious interest. The POC software still runs today. Oh well. maybe in my next life.

 

Daddy, What did you do in the 20th Century ?

In response to an article I read on the web... READ HERE

This reminds me of a concept that I bolted together some 20 years ago.

For protocols requiring 'government' control (and I use the term loosely)
of a public platform to be subsumed into the common psyche...
it takes around 75 years to become completely pervasive in the mindset of the affected society.

The First generation don't want or appreciate any overwhelming need for radical change and resist - even if only in a passive way.
- Occupy Wall Street and similar street-level protests

Second generation it's all they've known as a lifestyle option, but remember their parents reminiscing about their past freedom or the 'good old days'. Minor pockets of resistance easily averted to support the 'greater good'.

- Academic discussion and text-book commentaries on the 'good vs evil' nature of history.

The Third generation are amost completely dissociated from the 'old' concepts - and as such, only know what the status-quo is. Sheeple and compliance. 75 years from hero to zero.

- What are you complaining about?