Read the following account on how to
manipulate the psyche of individuals for purposes of controlling them.
Consider how many of these techniques
are built into the relationship between obstetrician and pregnant patient,
and how many of the techniques mirror the typical experience of the
hospitalized labor patient.
Newsweek, Dec 29, 2003, Jan 5, 2004
Trying Iraq’s War Crimes
The CIA and other government agencies refuse to
discuss and methods they might use to make Saddam talk….
The Defense Intelligence Agency wrote in a federal
court filing:
“DIA’s approach to interrogation is largely
dependent upon creating an atmosphere of dependency
and trust between subject/mom/pt and interrogator/doctor. What is
done, according to the manuals, by using many different
techniques to disorient the prisoner/ labor
patient until s/he reaches some stage of “regression.”
The heart of interrogation
techniques lies in controlling every aspect of the captive/labor
patient's environment. “The interrogator can and does make
the subject’s world not only unlike the world to which he has been
accustomed but also strange in itself – a world in which
familiar pattern of time, space and sensory perception are overthrown.
Interrogators have the power
to grant or withhold permission for every bodily function, including
sleep. Its amazing how fast most people break down under such
circumstances and these are considered” non-co coercive”
techniques.
Talk, Not Torture: Under the Geneva Conventions,
Saddam can't be tortured during interrogations. Some other tactics the CIA
could try:
1) Contact: Restrictions on visitors and relentless
questioning might break down his resistance.
2) Sleep deprivation
3) Good cop/bad cop
4) Bluffing: Pretending to know things they don't might help trip him up