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Best guide to interrogation, unclassified or classified,
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This review is from: Talking with Victor Charlie: An Interrogator's Story (Mass Market Paperback)
In the current controversy about rendition and harsh interrogation, Tourison recounts, in a relaxed way, both how to conduct effective and humane interrogations, and, equally important, how to organize and cross-reference the data from multiple interviews with multiple subjects. He uses the tradecraft term of needing to build a "wiring diagram" of relationships among your subjects and other people and things to which they relate.
Some of the more controversial works on interrogation, such as the CIA KUBARK manual, focus exclusively on interaction with a prisoner, and not well enough on how to use what was learned, not only to disseminate, but to use in future interviews with the same prisoner. He recounted when it was best to focus on building a relationship between interrogator and subject, which often is possible to do when the interrogator is not concerned about being "tough" I've seen a good deal of material in the intelligence and special operations community, and nothing comes close to Tourison's wisdom.
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An insightful and realistic account of MI work in the RVN,
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This review is from: Talking with Victor Charlie: An Interrogator's Story (Mass Market Paperback)
Sedgwick D. Tourison was a legendary figure by 1970 when I arrived at CMIC off "Plantation Road" in Saigon and was assigned to the Cheiu Hoi Team working in civies at the Political Reindoctrination Center across the stream from the Saigon Zoo. I was trained to be an O4B96C2LVS South Vietnamese Language Trained Interrogator and worked until May of 1971 while the war was winding down. Chief Tourison's book is an honest account and a document that successfully answers the "What did you do in the war?" question for my children and grandchildren.
Thanks for writing this book. I recommend it to anyone who has an interest in this fascinating aspect of the Vietnam War. Welcome back Chief and well done!
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Excellent,
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This review is from: Talking with Victor Charlie: An Interrogator's Story (Mass Market Paperback)
Excellent and detailed narrative of how interrogation and document exploitation operations are conducted downrange. The author also goes into great detail on the military intelligence analytical process. This book provides an excellent overall insight into the Human Intelligence field and the beginnings of the modern Army Interrogator speciality. This account is much more illustrative of what goes on today in Iraq and Afghanistan than other more recent pop-culture works like "Fear Up Harsh" (which was a self promoting piece of fiction masquerading as fact). For me the book dragged just a little sometimmes when the author was recounting how the US and Repuliic of Vietnam intelligence apparatus in Saigon was set up or very obscure technical points about the organization of Viet Cong and PAVN units. That's not to say those aren't interesting topics, I was just looking for more interrogation case studies. All that being said, can't reccomend this book highly enough for anyone wishing to catch an honest, accurate glimpse into how the US military runs interrogation operations downrange.
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