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Through a Glass Darkly: Spies and Spying; Week 11 - Period 3
"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."
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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."
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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Anders handed in something that was slightly closer to
self-insertoriginal fiction than it was to an actual homework essay, and it's highly likely that he really thought of it in those terms seeing as it was about seven and a half pages long.It set up an entire scenario that centered around going undercover to investigate a ring of
vampirecon-man performance artists who were suckering unwitting audience members out of theirbloodwallets usingtopless dancingpurported sleight-of-hand tricks in an interactive theater act.His description of his cover went a little too in depth about the incredibly cool clothes he'd wear while posing as a cub reporter there to review the performance for a major paper, and not into quite as much depth about how this article was supposed to be his big opportunity to impress the paper's editor and get a full-time job there. (He figured it wasn't that hard to adapt from the backstory of being a rookie athlete getting a tryout in the pros.)
Hey, at least he deleted the last three pages of his original draft, which had described the way he'd singlehandedly bring down the entire ring.
It was maybe B-/B material, possibly a little more if he got credit for creativity.
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Maybe there's more to the little freak than meets the eye.
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