Interrogation Techniques

In HCOB of 30 March 1960, entitled "Interrogation: How to read an E-meter on a silent subject", Hubbard suggests the apartheid government of South Africa use Scientology E-meters  to question uncooperative subjects and uncover subversives — a category including anyone who supported the Communist party, the ANC, and black civil rights.

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When the subject placed on a meter will not talk but can be made to hold the cans (or can be held while the cans are strapped to the soles or placed under the armpit, I am sorry if that sounds brutal, it isn't), it is still possible to obtain full information from the subject.

Asking questions, one expects no reply, asks for no pictures. The auditor just watches the needle for dips when questions are asked.

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Meter response for "No" or negative or don't know = no fall.
Meter response for "Maybe" "You're getting close" = slight fall.
Meter response for "Yes" or "Correct" = steep fall.

Sample interrogation: Subject is given cans. Nul questions are asked.

Then:

"Were you persuaded to make trouble?" (fall)
"Was the person who persuaded you a native?" (fall)
"What was the person's name?" (no verbal answer, heavy fall)
"Do you know where the person who persuaded you lives?" (heavy fall)
(Name various nearby towns.)
"Does the person live in…?"
Take town with heaviest fall.

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In a security check, you want the person who persuaded the person you have on the cans to engage in a riot. When you locate and have brought this new person, you do the same thing. But now you have a whole committee of names to get and your subject is better educated.

Taking ten people from a strike or riot, you can find the instigator of their group. Finding the instigator and getting him on the cans you can run it back to a higher command level.

The end product is the discovery of a terrorist, usually paid, usually a criminal, often trained abroad.

Given a dozen people from any riot or strike, you can find the instigator of that group or more than one. Finding that one, you can get his boss.

Twenty or thirty paid agents provocateurs can keep a whole country in revolt. Clean them up and the riots collapse.

Note: Implies that most people being interrogated are black.

Thousands are trained every year in Moscow in the ungentle art of making slave states. Don't be surprised if you wind up with a white.

Revolts kill an awful lot of natives. Only when security has been established can a reform be applied.

Use E-Meter "clean hands" to convince people that a population is loyal and that reforms are in order.

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Note: Hubbard offers his expert advice on how to handle unruly natives.

By the way, the answer to passive resistance is for the government to passive strike against any district from which it occurs. No water, lights, pay, government or service. Simply use the same tactic back. Don't use guns, cordon the area off and shut off power and water.