latimes.com — The most he gave up were false tidbits of a well-crafted cover story. Only when confronted with captured confederates who could identify him, and captured photographs showing him with Ho Chi Minh, did he confess his identity. It was good old-fashioned research and analysis, not torture, that first dented his armor.
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bbe1965May 1, 2009
A Vietnam era interrogator discusses his interrogation experiences during that war making the point that brutality is a slippery slope that must be guarded against. He suggests that all interrogators should sign a protocol certifying their personal responsibility for the treatment they visit on their charges and accepting legal liability for that treatment.