Espionage and Intelligence | Brutal Interrogation Techniques May Be Necessary to Gather Valuable Intelligence

About the author: Bruce Hoffman, founding director of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, is director of the RAND Corporation’s Washington, D.C., office, editor-in-chief of Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, and author of Inside Terrorism.

“Intelligence is capital,” Colonel Yves Godard liked to say. And Godard undeniably knew what he was talking about. He had fought both as a guerrilla in the French Resistance during World War II and against guerrillas in Indochina, as the commander of a covert...

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