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Old 15th Dec 2014, 12:41
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In the new world order, where "enhanced" interrogation techniques are off the table, how does one extract information from such high-value prisoners, if the prisoner is non-cooperative?
If the stories I read about the French Resistance are correct, I'll think you'll find that even the Gestapo discovered that if the prisoner is truly 'non-cooperative' even 'enhanced interrogation techniques' won't 'extract information'..

Jean Moulin

Soon enough, they learned that they had captured the head of the Resistance.

Little good it did them. In the Montluc fort in Lyons, on the day that the Gestapo agent handed him writing materials because torture had left him unable to speak, Jean Moulin sketched a caricature of his torturer. As for what followed, let us turn to the stark words of his sister:

“His part was played, and his ordeal began. Jeered at, savagely beaten, his head bleeding, his internal organs ruptured, he attained the limits of human suffering without betraying a single secret, he who knew everything.”

Let us be quite clear that, for the days in which he was still able to speak or write, the fate of the whole Resistance hung on the courage of this one man. As Mademoiselle Moulin put it, he knew everything.
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