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Based on the replies in THIS thread, I have decided to start my own AMA thread.

I was an interrogator in the Army and was also an instructor.  Ask me anything, see if I will answer.  If I do answer, will it be truthful and accurate?

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Are you actually going to answer any questions or just be funny?

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How did you go into that line of work?

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Can you tell if someone is lying by their handwriting?

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MOS 97E Interrogator/Linguist circa 1986-1991.

I can answer questions about PMCSing vehicles, since that's what we did the most.

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lol. as a 35M myself, please forgive my laughter at how seriously OP seems to take himself. All that's required to be an Army interrogator is to finish the ridiculously easy course at Huachuca (or Utah), where almost everyone gets pushed through anyway. I saw lots of (private and specialist) morons graduate Huachuca and go out into the world as "interrogators". Some of them did one deployment, maybe doing interrogations, maybe doing source ops, maybe doing not much of either, and then come back and instruct at Huachuca because the money wasn't bad and they qualified by simply having mob'ed and graduated the original course. HT-JCOE has some more stringent requirements for their SOC and DSDC course instructors.  

In the case of the OP, he probably was an instructor at the Utah Regional Training Center at Camp Williams and in the National Guard, because active duty 35M's haven't had a language requirement for the last decade. And languages are a joke, because you just take the DLPT and if you get 1 out of 3, you technically qualify for language pay in that language, even if you can't speak it. Conversely, languages such as Dari and Farsi, which are functionally different dialects of the same language, qualify the soldier for two separate language payments and count as separate languages.

The regulations and rules surrounding interrogations over the last several years (since abu gharib) have been so strict that an O6 (Full bird colonel) has to (but rarely will) sign off on any interrogation plan proposing to use mutt/jeff (good/bad cop) or false flag approaches. Anything more "advanced" than that is strictly prohibited and will land the entire chain of command in prison. Everything else is pretty much subtle psychology, such as "pride and ego up/down" or "love of family/country, etc"... stuff you'd use on your friends to get them to do something they didnt want to do. Most interrogations are pretty boring, because unless you are getting a first crack at the subject, he's probably been getting interrogated longer than the interrogator has been an interrogator and he knows the game.

There were some of the interrogators in my unit that got tasked to a special task force with SOF to do interrogations. Those were much less rigidly controlled than most of the conventional interrogation facilities, but they still had to play exactly by the book. They just got to wear cooler clothes and grow longer beards. Army interrogations pretty much consist of sitting in a room with a guy and chatting him up for hours at a time... buddying up to him or offering him better accommodations/ cigarettes etc, then filing another interrogation plan the next time and doing it all again...hoping to glean some little detail or crumb of info that can be construed into an IIR. And there isn't even much of that going on anymore. It's a toxic branch of intelligence that no career officer wants anything to do with because of the potential to lose their jobs over the actions of some idiot E4. OGA's and other specialized units do their own interrogations, but the Army has mostly stepped out of the business for political reasons.

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Do your techniques differ substantially from the Interview/Interrogation process as taught via the "Reid Technique"?

Did you find yourself doing interviews more or interrogations?