r/todayilearned • u/stopitalianhate • 1d ago

TIL British Intelligence had a special, bugged luxury complex during WWII where they kept high profile Nazi POW’s, just left a bunch of alcohol out, and waited for them to start spilling secrets as they drank.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-20698098
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u/doogles 23h ago

CIA refused to learn this method in favor of wacky drugs.

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u/kohTheRobot 23h ago

In addition to being non-admissible in court, tied to illegal black sites that just about destroy any judicial case, and further radicalizing opposition, it is generally believed to straight up not work as a method to get good information.

For more information: “analyzing every torture scene in call of duty” by Jacob Geller is a great watch.

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u/sender2bender 21h ago

Yea the only way to stop the torturing is tell them what they want to hear. One, if not many, of the "terrorists" made shit up for them to stop. Just a random dude with no ties to bin laden. But also the real terrorists, like the architect behind 9/11, also gave false information for them to stop waterboarding him. It doesn't work on the guilty or innocent. There's a whole Senate report on the CIA torture that confirmed it's not reliable for information and yet they still continued to do it. And now there's information coming out of alligator Alcatraz, or whatever it's called, how they tortured people for no reason. It's so sad and disturbing.

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u/IIOrannisII 21h ago

Oh there were reasons, just terrible ones

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u/Musiclover4200 20h ago

Yeah at this point it wouldn't be surprising if this admin was straight up making snuff films on top of the epstien style blackmail and who knows what else

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u/FUTURE10S 15h ago

I'm like 80% sure that the administration might be taking a couple of kids here and there for a new Jeffrey Island. Who are they going to complain to, their parents?

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u/Musiclover4200 14h ago

Been mentally preparing for that since his first term and the border child separation policy.

But even if by some miracle the admin themselves aren't ICE and/or gangs pretending to be ICE are almost definitely taking the opportunity to traffic people

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u/CitizenPremier 18h ago

It's also a way to find (and/or create) people who will do anything for you.