Chapter 63. SURVIVAL, EVASION, RESISTANCE, AND ESCAPE
"Tito watched the old man fold the copy of the New York Times he’d been reading."
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"Gradually, in the crisis of self that your captivity becomes, [the captor] guides you in your discovery of who you are becoming."
"'Score some shit,' said Brown, sounding like he'd rehearsed the line, as he handed Milgrim a fold of colorful foreign bills."
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Chapter 63. SURVIVAL, EVASION, RESISTANCE, AND ESCAPE
Waiting on the Pacific coast for the boat that would take them to Canada, the old man tells Tito and Garreth that the CIA [defining interrogation protocols that "turned the SERE lessons inside out"] discourages torture, not for ethical reasons, but because how it degrades the "quality of the product... squandering potential assets." [334 characters]
The ineffectiveness of torture for the extraction of secrets or of intelligence which is of any practical use, has long been recognised by the professionals, if not by political and religious fanatics, or by politicians and bureaucrats who seek to cover their own backsides through "plausible deniability" e.g. see the then head of the British Security Service MI5 Dame Eliza Mannigham-Buller on the
"don't ask where the intelligence came from" policy regarding terrorist suspects who have been "questioned" by brutal foreign secret police.
- "We treat such intelligence with great care for two main reasons: detainees can seek to mislead their questioners, and, where the agencies are not aware of the circumstances in which the intelligence was obtained, it is likely to be more difficult to assess its reliability."
Chapter 64. GLOCKING
With $300 in hand an instructions from Brown to lure "someone in the business" [of drugs] into a deal, preferably in a parking garage, Milgrim scores $150 worth of Valium from Skink, an "asymmetrical individual." When Skink throws Milgrim into a dark entryway, Brown bursts in to relieve Skink of his consciousness and his Glock. [329 characters]