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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Book: Genius of Deception

BOOK: A GENIUS FOR DECEPTION

One of the few unclassified discussions of official U.S. policy on the use of "cover stories" to conceal classified activities and operations advised that "Cover stories must be believable" (1992 draft SAP Supplement, at p. 3-1-5):

BOOK: A GENIUS FOR DECEPTION One of the few unclassified discussions of official U.S. policy on the use of "cover stories" to conceal classified activities and operations advised that "Cover stories must be believable" (1992 draft SAP Supplement, at p. 3-1-5): But such pedestrian guidance would not have been needed by British military and intelligence officials during the past century because they had an almost instinctive gift for concealment and misdirection, writes Nicholas Rankin in "A Genius for Deception: How Cunning Helped the British Win Two World Wars" (Oxford University Press, 2009). http://www.fas.org/sgp/library/nispom/sapsup-draft92.pdf


But such pedestrian guidance would not have been needed by British military and intelligence officials during the past century because they had an almost instinctive gift for concealment and misdirection, writes Nicholas Rankin in "A Genius for Deception: How Cunning Helped the British Win Two World Wars" (Oxford University Press, 2009).

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Solictation on Interrogation study

Posted with the permission of Matthew D. Semel, J.D., M.S.

It's a call for information to assist in a study being conducted about military and counterterrorism interrogation techniques. The solicitation is for military interrogators and their federal counterparts to anonymously complete a 15 minute on-line survey about interrogation techniques, beliefs and practices. A recent government study, provides great deal of research about law enforcement interrogations but little about interrogations in the military or counterterrorism context. The goal is to compare the study results with the law enforcement literature and eventually ethically test common practices in an experimental setting.
For more information you may want to contact:

Matthew D. Semel, J.D., M.S.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice
Partner, FBI Terrorism Research & Analysis Project (TRAP)
Division of Social Sciences
St. Thomas Aquinas College
125 Route 340
Sparkill, NY 10976
mailto: msemel@stac.edu
845-3984133
845-3984133(cell)