European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 23, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pages the stars and stripes Friday september 23,1988 s4s Jom How � staff or. William Armstrong a is. Watch fill Eye on enemy loops who tre kneeling Irth hands Orer Bead utter Btl to captured in � a forger exercise. So Ders practice ancient Art of prisoner quiz no by Joseph  Schweinfurt West Germany this is inc old est intelligence discipline in the world sgt 1st class Michael judge said. The assyrians were doing it to inc babylonians the egyptians were doing it to he  and from where he stood on the Barm of a Rifle Range in Schweinfurt judge could look Down on the tents where his own soldiers were practising the same still Inlet toggling enemy prisoners. The exercise dubbed inter Rock 4. Look place As part of nato exercise certain Challenge which concluded thursday to involved 12 linguists from the Utah National guard s 142nd military intelligence i3n actin Gas prisoners Wilh information and soldiers from judge s own 165th military intelligence in in Darm Tadt playing the role of inquisitors. As part of the exercise the soldiers worked in a mock transitional prisoner of War Camp surrounded by guards and concertina wire and opera co according to the same Geneva convention standards that would apply during a War. The prisoners arriving in Large groups passed through in processing stations Runny Frankfurt s 4th platoon 284th my co. The police tagged and searched them inventoried personal properly checked them for health problems do loused them issued necessary clothing asked for Basic information assigned them to a pow detention area then Ted them away Blind folded and handcuffed. The sch inf div supplied most of the prisoners leaving the police the role of sorting out the guard members among Ihm two compounds were set up to separate newly arrived prisoners from those who had been questioned already White Engineer s tape in the form of the letters Pew for enemy prisoner of War dearly visible from the air Markeda Field in the Middle of Camp. The letters arc used to warn enemy bomber pilots that prisoners Are in inc Camp said i St it. James Peterson the my platoon Leader. Since prisoners Are not supposed to remain in such a Field Camp for More than 48 hours the interrogations proceed swiftly. Interpreters participate in some and others involve Only the prisoner and the interrogator. Some occur in tents others in the open. A lot of people have a concept of an comply room Wilh a blinding Light in your eyes. That s just detective movie stuff judge said explaining that interrogators can work almost anywhere and would try to pick the location which would put the prisoner at Case. The Geneva convention prohibits torture and with holding food As interrogation tools. Instead the interrogators rely on building a rapport with the prisoner and using psychological tricks to elicit information. One such trick is to make a prisoner think his interrogator knows More than he really does. What you do is take what Little you have and expand it greatly so the prisoner is unaware he s giving you information judge said. Thai s much More effective than torture anyway. Tor Ture is an outdated technique he said. People will Tell you whatever they think you want to hear to Stop the  the use of foreign languages also is important. Languages used in the exercise included russian. German czech and polish. Judge said interrogators find it advantageous to address a prisoner in his native language even if the prisoner Speaks other languages Well. For example judge said Only the use of polish would help pry secrets from a polish prisoner who does t Tike the soviets. That pole will understand russian but what docs it reinforce everything we re trying to work against judge said. The Rifle Range served As the temporary Camp be cause the berms on either Side prevent the prisoners themselves from learning much about where they Alcor what happens to prisoners who arc taken away a system exists to identify places thai would be favourable for this sort of activity judge said adding that other temporary prisoner Camps would have Simi Lar characteristics.  i Aerial new of a simulated transitional prisoner of War Camp set up to accommodate captured troops brought in for interrogation by re forger intelligence unit