Through a Glass Darkly: Spies and Spying; Week 11 - Period 3

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"Good morning, all," Aly said with bright smile to the class.  "If you can hand in your papers from last week when you sign in, that would be fabulous."

She sat down on the front edge of her desk and looked more serious.  "These past few weeks we've talked about putting together a cover, a legend to help you infiltrate places you need to go.  In an optimal world, this will always work and you'll be able to get the information you need without incident and slip out again, none the wiser.  Of course, in an optimal world, we spies would probably not actually be needed anymore so I, at least, am thankful."

"There's always the possibility of getting caught on a mission.  I don't think this should come as a shock to any of you.  That's why the person going undercover rarely knows the whole plan, and the spymaster rarely gets to actually go in the field.  Getting caught is always a risk no matter how good you are."

Aly stroked the beads at her throat pensively.  "But we're not going to talk about those possible consequences today too much.  Today we're talking about interrogation.  How to perform interrogations and how to resist them."

She took two handouts from her desk and started to hand them out.  "The first handout is a general overview of interrogation with a bias towards the laws of the United States.  The second is a detailing of different interrogation techniques.  You'll find some work better than others, but you want to be aware of all the angles so you can see when you're being played."

"There are some basic language and techniques that I want to go through before starting you all off on your exercise," Aly said, going back to sit on the front on her desk.

"When you're eliciting information, you learn what the person wants to tell you.  Interrogating is getting the information they'd prefer to keep secret.  The general guide to interrogation is to start off by asking questions - obviously.  If you don't believe what you're being told, ask more specific questions, ask the same question in different ways, try to find discrepancies or oddities in the story.  You want to make it in your target's best interest to give you information, and then, if that doesn't work, threats are always a possibility."  She smiled.  "I personally prefer to work in the opposite direction.  People soon learn how nice I can be when I get what I want."  She looked very, very sweet and innocent.

"We've talked about lying well and signs of lying before so be sure to keep an eye out for that.  What I've done now is split the class into two groups - interrogators and those being interrogated.  Partner up and see if you can make your target spill their guilt.  This is a different technique from when we did the recruiting exercise a few weeks ago, but there are similarities so keep that in mind."

[OOC: And plz to be waiting for ze OCD is UP!]

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SAS 11/21 - Sign In

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

Sign in collapsey style, note if you're handing in the paper from last week and the approximate level of work/grade you think it should get.

Re: SAS 11/21 - Sign In

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Setsuna Sakurazaki.

Setsuna didn't mind doing homework assignments for classes she enjoyed. Perhaps she didn't mind a little too much because it was rather long, extensively detailed and ridiculously wordy. There's no denying that her paper was certainly thorough. However, her English spelling was still terrible (she couldn't figure out for the life of her what all those red squiggly lines were doing under all her words as she typed it up on her laptop; she was just relieved that they didn't actually show up when she printed it off) and her grammar was at times a little questionable.

Re: SAS 11/21 - Sign In

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Teddy Altman

Teddy handed in his paper. It wasn't the best work in the class, but it certainly wasn't the worst either. Thank God for the spell checker.

Re: SAS 11/21 - Sign In

[socksofcool.livejournal.com]

Seely Booth

Seely's homework was well thought out and highly detailed. To the point where he wrote it in character.

And signed it with his cover's name.

Re: SAS 11/21 - Sign In

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Eric Weiss.

Eric's homework was well-thought out but a little weak in certain areas. Definite B+/A-, probably depending on Aliane's mood.

He did use the word "covert" a lot.

SAS 11/21 - Questions and Note-taking

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

Questions about or during the lecture?

Re: SAS 11/21 - Questions and Note-taking

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Of course Setsuna's taking careful notes. This was always the part that she had trouble with....'cause, y'know, you didn't have to worry about interrogations when you didn't get caught.

...Too bad Setsuna got caught a lot more than she let on...

Re: SAS 11/21 - Questions and Note-taking

[http://users.livejournal.com/weissguy_/]

Eric took copious notes. CIA agents were caught and disavowed all the freakin' time.

SAS 11/21 - Interrogations

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Those being interrogated: Eric Weiss, Anders, Hamlet Dane, Jim Ellison, Molly Hayes, Draco Malfoy, Kaoru Hitachiin, Schrodinger, and Skif.

Interrogators: Bridge Carson, Teddy Altman, Seely Booth, Jake Gavin, Briar Moss, Hikaru Hitachiin, Maia Rutledge, Setsuna Sakurazaki, Aeryn Sun

Make up the scenario as you go, have fun with it, no physical harm please. ;)

If you don't have a partner, Aly or one of her TAs can jump in to help you out.

Re: SAS 11/21 - Interrogations

[socksofcool.livejournal.com]

Seely his best to look intimidating as he waited for a partner.

Re: SAS 11/21 - Interrogations

[2-twin-devils-2.livejournal.com]

Kaoru looked down the list of interrogators to see who was still free.
"Need someone to question?" Kaoru folded his arms across his chest and shifted his stance.

slow due to class and driving, if you don't mind..

Re: SAS 11/21 - Interrogations

[socksofcool.livejournal.com]

"That I do," Seely grinned, before adopting a more serious expression.

"Name?"

Re: SAS 11/21 - Interrogations

[http://users.livejournal.com/weissguy_/]

Weiss crossed his arms, daring anybody to try to get anything out of him.

Re: SAS 11/21 - Interrogations

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders suppressed a little internal "meep" and tried to put himself into the headspace that usually went with a Pyramid faceoff and an "I dare you to try and get this ball away from me." Only substituting "information" for "ball."

Re: SAS 11/21 - Interrogations

[2-twin-devils-2.livejournal.com]

Hikaru was a little disappointed with how the lists had panned out and that his victim had run so quickly. Oh well, he'd just have fun with someone else. "How's it going?" He asked casually.

Re: SAS 11/21 - Interrogations

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Not bad," Anders said as noncommittally as he could, hoping nobody would ask him about whatever incriminating rumors had been going around about him on the radio lately thanks in part to a certain Spies and Spying teacher.

Re: SAS 11/21 - Interrogations

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Molly sat patiently and waited to be interrogated.

Re: SAS 11/21 - Interrogations

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Setsuna pulled up a chair and sat in front of Molly, leaning on the desk assumingly between them with her best stone-cold face. "Hello, Molly," she said, latching her eyes onto her.

Setsuna had stategicly went for the only girl on the to-be-interrogated list. She had more experience with females for this sort of thing, as they were mostly what she worked with. And she figured she could be vitually unfappable in the face of a female, while boys just had her too nervous in general.

Re: SAS 11/21 - Interrogations

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

Molly gave Setsuna a bright grin. "Hi! How are you today?" Confusion was the way to go. Molly figured if she refused to admit she was being interrogated, it would be harder to get anything out of her.

Re: SAS 11/21 - Interrogations

[cat-in-the-box.livejournal.com]

Schrodinger stretched his arms behind his head and tried not to snicker at the idea of someone trying to interrogate him.

Re: SAS 11/21 - Interrogations

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

Teddy walked over toward Schrodinger and asked brightly, "Want to be interrogated?"

It was a cunning plan, you see. The worst interrogator going after the person least likely to spill anything. A very cunning plan. So cunning that not even Teddy knew about it.

SAS 11/21 - Talk to Aly

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

She's around during and after class if you want to chat.

Re: SAS 11/21 - Talk to Aly

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Um," Bridge approaches Aly shortly after class, looking slightly sheepish. "I wanted to apologise for missing class last week," he tells her.

Re: SAS 11/21 - Talk to Aly

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

Aly looked up at Bridge with a bit of a smile. "Is everything okay?"

SAS 11/21 - OOC

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And it's always winter, but never OOC...