Educing Information. Interrogation: Science and Art. Foundations for the Future. Intelligence Science Board Phase One Report

摘要

Educing Information is a profoundly important book because it offers both professionals and ordinary citizens a primer on the science and art of both interrogation and intelligence gathering. Because this is a book written by and for intelligence professionals, it starts exactly where one might expect it to start with Dr. Robert Coulams superb discussion of the costs and benefi ts of various approaches to interrogation. For those who are (like me) unschooled in the art and science of intelligence gathering, careful study of the table of contents is perhaps the best way to decide which of the papers would provide the most convenient portal through which to enter a realm that is, by the admission of the authors themselves, both largely unexplored and enormously important to our national security. Steven M. Kleinmans excellent paper on the KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation Review provided just the historical and theoretical background I needed to feel comfortable with the other papers. This book works either way.