The FBI teaches you lie detection, people reading and intelligence skills

Chapter 61 How to Make an Excellent Intelligence Personnel (2)
Among these departments, the most amazing thing is the fingerprint identification and archives room. Here, there are at least 1 million fingerprint files. This department handles more than 7500 fingerprint inquiries every day.Using cutting-edge laser technology, it can completely distinguish fingerprints left 40 years ago from a piece of wood or a piece of paper, or take out fingerprints left by criminal suspects in gloves.At the same time, the FBI also has the most advanced technology in the world. The staff can copy all the fingerprints of the suspect based on a little bit of fingerprints left in a certain place.Its electronic memory system stores about 650 million documents, and police agencies throughout the United States have electronic terminals to keep in touch with it, and the technical documents provided here can be obtained in less than 10 minutes.Its computer system also stores tens of thousands of files of facial features, hairstyles, and facial features such as eyes, noses, ears, and mouth shapes.In solving cases, the FBI can map the criminal's facial features based on the memory of witnesses.

These advanced detection techniques of the FBI have made the FBI famous all over the world, but this is only the tip of the iceberg of this agency.FBI headquarters also has many departments, all of which are world-class.For example, the investigation department responsible for civil and criminal cases, the training department responsible for the training of intelligence personnel and intelligence personnel, the administrative department responsible for overall administrative affairs, and the domestic intelligence department responsible for domestic anti-subversion, counterintelligence personnel and counterintelligence tasks.

The reason why the FBI has so many advanced technologies and complete functional departments is all because of the constant attention and support of successive US presidents.

In addition, the FBI is special and independent.This also requires that the scope of work of its agents must be different.The agents of the FBI will often break into various organizations and groups to obtain information, and vigorously train students and various personnel to act as "informants."What they are best at is installing bugs, stealing private letters, and eavesdropping on phone calls.These personnel have undergone high-end training, so their eavesdropping techniques can be described as varied and dazzling.In addition to traditional phone tapping, they also installed electronic surveillance equipment in places such as the homes and offices of their targets.

In addition to eavesdropping, the agents of the FBI will also do some actual sabotage activities against their targets, such as sowing dissension, framing, and spreading rumors.The speed and strength of these sabotage activities is really jaw-dropping.It is equivalent to saying that the agents of the Bureau of Investigation are sometimes tantamount to hypocrites who do whatever it takes to achieve their ends.

The reason why they are sometimes called hypocrites rather than villains is that they do have a lot of skills.The Bureau of Investigation requires them not only to master certain professional knowledge and self-defense techniques, but also to be a ghost who can inquire about any valuable information anywhere at any time.At the same time, they need to have the courage and talent to be undercover agents.They must have the ability to sneak into the interior of criminal gangs and conduct secret reconnaissance activities.In fact, the work of the agents is very exciting and full of danger.When it comes time to apprehend a suspect, there is no guarantee of who will draw the gun first to make the fatal shot.In the eyes of FBI agents, the arrest of a bank robber is as dangerous as the arrest of a white-collar worker.

FBI agents never take the dangers of performing tasks lightly. Therefore, the FBI has an unwritten rule that agents must wear pistols when performing tasks outside the office.If things go on like this, the detectives have developed the habit of never leaving their guns. Many detectives will feel insecure if they don't carry a gun on a certain day. Many major cases handled by FBI agents have involved fierce gun battles, and the gun gave them courage and a bargaining chip for victory.

Although the agents have great powers, they have lost the hearts of the people because "the victory cannot be publicized, and the failure cannot be explained".Many people believe that the staff of the FBI shoulder a huge responsibility, and they themselves think that they have some sense of superiority in their personal image.But this is not the case. After learning their identities, the American people mostly put on a bad face.Therefore, in most cases, FBI agents must only reveal their identities when they are in a critical situation.Because sometimes, the result of showing your identity is to bring them more trouble.

Some jobs are for life and are careers, but some jobs are just a means of making a living. FBI agents are likely to feel the glory of their job at first, but as the mission goes on for a long time, they will quickly tire of the job.Because they will be in contact with every level of society, they can only turn a blind eye to the good side, because the nature of their work determines that what they see will be the extremely ugly side of society, the worst part of human nature, and if things go on like this, they will naturally People will have a negative impression of the people and things they come into contact with. Once they form a stereotype, they will immediately lose confidence in a better life. The reason why FBI agents are so mobile is that apart from danger, psychological factors are the most important reason.

§§§ Section IV Investigative Tools for Intelligence Officers

Many national police agencies have imitated some of the investigation methods and tools used by the FBI. In a sense, it can be said that the FBI's investigation methods and tools are a template.

The FBI, with its very broad mission, has been innovating over the years.In order to process information and respond to various incidents separately, the FBI has developed multiple departments, including the Criminal Justice Information Service, the Laboratory Department (Crime Lab), the Behavior Analysis Department, and the Hostage Rescue Team.

The FBI has the largest forensic laboratory in the world. This laboratory has conducted more than 100 million forensic tests so far, providing valuable evidence for the detectives to solve the case. During the test process, they continue to introduce new methods of forensic analysis.The laboratory conducts forensic examination of various types of physical evidence, including DNA, blood, hair, fibers, blurred fingerprints, documents, handwriting, and weapons.

The Criminal Justice Information Service is the largest department in the FBI, and this department also includes the famous fingerprint identification department.In addition, the Offender Justice Information Service includes the National Criminal Offenses Information Centre.The center stores detailed information on cases across the U.S. that had been processed, but when it came to the FBI, staff reprocessed it and archived it.This department is open to the United States, and law enforcement agencies at the central, state and local levels can always access the information stored by the Judicial Information Service to identify criminals who are believed to have committed crimes by observing patterns of crime and similarities between different cases. dangerous person.

Even in the future, the FBI will be an innovator in crime analysis techniques, done by people in the Behavioral Analysis Division.The department's website explains that crime investigative analysis "is the process of reviewing a crime from a behavioral and investigative perspective."These officers are trained to look at the evidence and the circumstances of a crime or series of crimes to create a profile that illustrates different aspects of a suspect's personality.Elements such as gender, age, education, job type and other factors are their investigative goals, and once they are met, they allow agents to narrow the scope of the investigation to differentiate the importance of various leads.Area crime analysis is also helpful. In this method, crime analysts enter information about the area where a crime occurred into a computer, and the computer creates an "area of ​​interest" for investigators to use as a simulated reference area for detectives.

§§§ Section [-] Investigation Methods of Intelligence Officers

In addition to these investigative tools, FBI agents have another profound method when interrogating criminal suspects, that is, through some simple signals, they can determine whether the other party is lying.

These signals mainly include the following types.

The first signal: People being interrogated often do not mention themselves or their names.According to the experience of FBI agents over the years, when a person is lying, he will naturally feel uncomfortable, and he will instinctively remove himself from the lie he tells.So if you ask someone a question and they keep omitting the "I" repeatedly, then that person has reason to be suspicious.Conversely, liars rarely use the names of the people they lie about.A famous example in the history of the Bureau's detective work was when US President Bill Clinton refused to use "Monica" in his address to the nation a few years ago, saying "I didn't have sex with that woman."

Signal number two: Ask the liar the same question over and over, waiting for him to show his weakness.Detectives ask a person the answer they get to a question and then ask it again at intervals, and the answer may remain the same.And leave a gap between the second and third times.During this time, their bodies will calm down, and the suspect will think, "I've gotten away with it." And when his body relaxes and becomes normal after all physiological reactions subside.The investigator will suddenly ask him this question, and the other party is no longer in a state of lying. If he is not angry, he will tend to confess.If a person says, "Didn't I already tell you about this?" before throwing a fit, he is probably deceiving.It may also say to you: "The thing is, I'd better tell you straight."

The third sign: Liars never forget.The average person has difficulty remembering all the details of a time period.The exception is liars, who speak almost instantly because they have already thought everything out in a hypothetical situation in their minds.They never say "wait a minute, I got it wrong".But it was the coherence with which they were presented that exposed them as liars.

The fourth signal: sudden changes in volume and tone.Many liars unconsciously raise their voices in order to conceal their inner weakness.

The fifth signal: the flashing time of the real expression is extremely short.A normal expression that humans can maintain lasts for a few seconds, but on the liar's "fake face", the real emotion stays on the face for a very short time.The US Secret Service has provided a film in which Bill Clinton frowned slightly when he mentioned Monica Lewinsky, and then quickly regained his composure.

One final sign: your nose gets bigger when you lie.Many people probably wouldn't lie to a mirror, so it's impossible for them to know that their nose gets bigger when they lie.Because the body's reaction to lying causes excess blood to flow to the face.Some people even turn their entire face red.This will also swell your nose by a few millimeters.Of course, this cannot be observed with the naked eye, but the liar will feel uncomfortable in the nose, touch it casually, and from this it can be concluded that he is a liar.

However, this kind of working method of how to catch liars is actually a "remedy after a dead sheep", and what the FBI is best at is being able to plan ahead.That is when meeting a stranger for the first time, they can see through the person within minutes of the first conversation.Moreover, they can get closer to each other, and can find topics that the other party likes, and make the other party willing to talk about some private matters.

Joe Navarro, who has served as an FBI agent for 25 years, believes that the observation skills of FBI agents are completely acquired by practice, but their methods cannot be shared by the public.Joe Navarro would naturally not tell others about the FBI's secret.So, he secularized the FBI's approach.Although secularized, the shadow of the FBI can still be seen.

According to Joe Navarro, one of the most effective ways to practice observation is the "recall game."Can be practiced at any time and anywhere.For example, after you walk into a room, close your eyes and try to recall as much detail as possible about what you saw before you walked in.After a while, you can walk up to your friend's front door like an FBI agent, and you'll already have a clear view of your surroundings: what makes of cars are parked on the street in front of your door, what a man is doing outside the house next door, and what else is there? Are newspapers or books placed in front of the door of a room?

After you look at your surroundings, you need to ask yourself, what does this mean?For example, the man in the next house is weeding, so does he definitely live there, or is he just a weeder?Then you think, since there are no weeding company vehicles parked on the street in front of the door, that man must live there.

Joe Navarro is now an instructor in a poker club, and he usually plays a few hands with some strangers.According to him, every time he sits at a poker table, the first thing he does is to observe his opponents at the same table, including their facial expressions, the position of their hands, their sitting posture, and their attire.But more importantly, in the process of winning, he will pay special attention to whether the opponent's actions are abnormal.For example, the hands that were originally placed on the poker table are suddenly wrapped around the chest or placed on the thighs. Such actions may mean that he has not got a good card.But if the opponent moves his body back and sits with his feet crossed, it is obvious that he already has the chance to win, or his cards are already big enough.

With the keenness and professional characteristics of FBI agents, Joe Navarro taught us some extraordinary movements, which can often reflect the emotions of the parties involved.

When people are nervous or under pressure, they often make certain movements unconsciously, such as touching the neck; in addition, making small movements on the forehead or earlobes are also movements that most people will show when they are nervous.And if a man is pulling a tie, or a woman is playing with a necklace around her neck, it also means the same thing.Second, take a deep breath or suddenly increase the number of words: When you see the other person take a deep breath, you know that he may be suppressing emotions.Or the other party is not very talkative during the process, but suddenly talks more, which also means that his original emotions have become unstable.Finally, put your hands on your thighs: When we are nervous, we will unconsciously put our hands on our thighs and rub them back and forth, trying to calm our emotions.

Therefore, Joe Navarro believes that most FBI agents can see each other's personality from body language. FBI agents are well aware that the following seven habitual actions will allude to the specific personality and behavior patterns of the other party.

(1) Like to blink: This kind of person is narrow-minded and not very trustworthy.

(2) Always like to stare at others: This shows that he has a strong self-esteem and does not reveal his privacy easily, so when facing them, avoid showing excessive enthusiasm or joking words.

(3) Talking loudly: Most of them are egoists, a type of people who are very conceited.

(4) Don't pay attention to clothes, and don't care about small details: this kind of people are easy to be approached by others, and they are easy to give in when faced with human pressure, so when you have something to discuss with them, it's better to use friendship than through official relationships. Comes and works.

(5) Crossing one's legs as soon as one sits down: This kind of person is strong in action, but very conceited, always thinking that there is nothing he cannot do in the world.

(6) Talking and touching the chin exist at the same time: Usually the personality is cautious and narrow-minded.

(7) Wrap your hands around your chest: very cautious in doing things, strong in initiative, and assertive.

Of course, it is the FBI's old routine to spy on a person from their handwriting. Their conclusion is: people with scribbled handwriting and fast writing speed also work fast, but usually sloppy and rough; Sometimes it will be confirmed while proceeding, and it belongs to a person with a good and rigorous work attitude.

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