Information of great value to the commander may be obtained through interrogation of EPWs. EPWs include those captured in action and who have voluntarily surrendered. Careful study of enemy documents captured, intercepted, or discovered in the course of battle may also yield valuable information. Prisoner interrogation and study of enemy documents are, however, skills which demand specially trained personnel. An untrained interrogator or document examiner, even though furnished with a list of priority intelligence requirements (PIR) /information requirements (IR) which tells him exactly what he must find out from the prisoners or documents, can hardly be expected to perform like a trained interrogator.
DesignationIT 0606 US Army Interrogation Operations
EditionMay 1995
StatusSuperseded
Pages80
FunctionRecon Intel
CollectionRecent Archive