On Jun 2, 12:58*am, John D. Slocomb
wrote:
On Mon, 1 Jun 2009 21:22:20 -0700 (PDT), rangerssuck



wrote:
On Jun 2, 12:13*am, John D. Slocomb
wrote:
On Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:29:11 -0500, Ignoramus17163

wrote:
On 2009-06-02, John D *Slocomb wrote:
After all the Russians seemed to be able to get individuals to make
statements that doomed that individual to death. There are many many
stories about old time police "beating confessions out of people".
I suggest that it does work and leaves it up to the interrogator to
sort out the truth from the lies - just as any interrogation technique
does.

This is hard to tell with any certainty until you tortured a number of
motivated people. Any truth on this would be difficult to come by.

I can only comment that at the end of the Korean war I was in Japan
and one of our crews was returned to the *Squadron after they were
liberated. The Squadron held a sort of "welcome home" thing where the
crew told the Squadron about being captured and being prisoners. The
Aircraft commander stated that after they had dragged him out and beat
him for some time he "told them what they wanted to know".

Subsequent conversation with one of the enlisted crew members revealed
that they literally dragged the A.C. out and beat and kicked him into
unconsciousness day after day.... *until he talked.

I think that it would work.

Cheers,

John B.
(jbslocombatgmaildotcom)

So, he told them what they wanted to know. But did he tell them the
truth?

The question never arose. The A.C. said pretty much what I wrote and
nobody commented. At the time I assumed that he had told them the
truth.

I'm not sure that anyone can withstand being interrogated in a prison
camp run by people that you know don't really care whether they kill
you or not. The poor diet, lack of rest, generally lousy physical
condition and constant beatings will (I'm sure) result in you telling
them what they want to know.

Cheers,

John B.
(jbslocombatgmaildotcom)

No, you'll tell them what they want to HEAR, to get them to stop,
which may be very different from what they want to know. And THAT is
the problem with with information gained from tortured prisoners.