Spy the Lie: Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Detect Deception

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Omar shifted in his seat, paused, and with visible discomfort responded with a question: "Can I pray?" Understanding the context: The authors argue that understanding the context of a situation is crucial to detecting deception, as people are more likely to lie in certain situations, such as when they are under stress or pressure. The individuals who hold the keys to the secrets of any CIA operation anywhere in the world are the communications officers. They are the ones who handle all the message traffic between their post, Langley, and other CIA posts worldwide. They have access to the CIA’s ultrasensitive communications network and every classified document that’s transmitted to or from their post. If hostile intelligence services see the personnel at a CIA post as a potential gold mine of information, the comms officers are the mother lode. Still, Phil’s job wasn’t over. Instead, it took an essential twist. Now he had to be assured that Omar was telling the truth when he claimed to have been working for the bad guys all those years. Remaining squarely in interrogation mode, Phil began asking questions to elicit information that would corroborate Omar’s confession. With the truth he managed to conceal for two decades finally exposed, Omar recounted how for years he had to pretend to be a novice when he underwent CIA training—more often than not, he had already received the same training from the bad guys. He began to go into explicit detail about some of his successes against the Americans. One of his accomplishments was particularly chilling. There are both auditory and visual cues you can look out for, and clusters of these indicate a lie.

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Four tips to keep in mind as you formulate your question to ensure that it is as clear as you can make it. experience has shown that if we can identify the first deceptive behavior within that first five seconds, we can reasonably conclude that the behavior is directly associated with the stimulus.” Omar got up from the chair and went into the bathroom, and returned with a towel. Whatever this guy was doing, Phil was thinking, it wasn't good. And it simply didn't make any sense. Omar's unblemished record and Phil's certainty that he hadn't been lying in the interview to that point meant there had to be a reasonable explanation for Omar's actions. We’re certainly not at all suspicious of someone who’s just a nice person. But if, in response to a question, a person suddenly increases the level of nicety, that’s significant. Perhaps the person says, “Yes, ma’am” in that particular response, but at no other time in the interview. Or a compliment might be injected during the response: “That’s a great tie, by the way.” The idea here is that the more we like someone, the more we’re inclined to believe him and to shy away from confrontation. The person is using politeness as a means of promoting his likability.” He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore. —Sigmund Freud”Took a micro deception class and this was recommended. Great read and reinforced principles I learned in the class, even repeating some info. Great information especially written statements for spying the lie.” L.Ramano THE BELIEF THAT PEOPLE WILL NOT LIE TO YOU. This is the main obstacle that Phil had to deal with in his encounter with Omar, who had already been vetted and whose veracity and good standing were unquestioned when Phil interviewed him.” The response was hardly what Phil was hoping for. Omar paused and shifted his feet uneasily. “Why are you asking me this?” he protested. “Is there a concern?” However, we find it hard to discern the communicative styles of others, since our perception of the world constantly teeters between being dominated by the visual or by the auditory.

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Repeating the question. This is done to buy more time to think, or because guilty people are more likely to find silence awkward. Through fascinating anecdotes from their intelligence careers, the authors teach us how to recognize deceptive behaviors, both verbal and nonverbal, that we all tend to display when we respond to questions untruthfully. For the first time, they share with the general public their methodology and their secrets to the art of asking questions that elicit the truth. As former CIA officers, Philip Houston, Michael Floyd, and Susan Carnicero are among the world's best at recognizing deceptive behavior. Spy the Lie chronicles the captivating story of how they used a methodology Houston developed to detect deception in the counterterrorism and criminal-investigation realms, and shows how these techniques can be applied in our daily lives.Now, here’s the thing about polygraph examinations. Just as there’s no such thing as a human lie detector, neither is there any such thing as a mechanical lie detector. A polygraph machine doesn’t detect lies. It detects physiological changes that occur in a person’s body in response to a stimulus, the stimulus being a question posed by the polygraph examiner. Whether or not the anxiety associated with those changes is indicative of deception is an open question that must be answered by the analytical and human interaction skills of the polygraph examiner. The” The person needs to feel that you have no preconceived notions about how he’s going to answer each question. Appendix I contains several lists of suggested questions for different situations. Related Book Summaries The 21-year-old studying criminal justice, the 44-year-old mother who wants to know if her troubled teen is lying to her, and anyone who wants to be better at spotting a lie.

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All the lies that have ever been told or ever will be told fall into three categories, or strategies: lies of commission, lies of omission, and lies of influence.”of the author’s views. This material has been reviewed by the CIA to prevent the disclosure of classified So we know what to look out for when someone is lying to us, but what can we do in the way we talk to them to help reveal the lie?

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Our inability to accurately interpret communication can also be influenced by our own biases, assumptions, and beliefs. We may interpret others' messages based on our preconceived notions, which can cloud our judgment and lead to misinterpretations. Susan Carnicero, an expert in criminal psychology, was a CIA operative under deep cover before coming in from the cold and serving as a polygraph examiner and personnel screening specialist. Eventually, we shared an overarching, driving passion: to be able to know whether or not a person is telling the truth. The” All the lies that have ever been told or ever will be told fall into three categories, or strategies: lies of commission, lies of omission, and lies of influence.” Philip Houston Omar approached the window as Phil scrambled to make sense of what was happening. What is this guy doing? Is he going to try to signal somebody with the towel? How bad is this going to get? And then it dawned on him. Omar is Muslim. He was at the window to get his bearings so he could pray in the direction of Mecca. Muslims pray at set times throughout the day, and maybe this was one of those times. Through fascinating anecdotes from their intelligence careers, the authors teach readers how to recognize deceptive behaviors, both verbal and nonverbal, that we all tend to display when we respond to questions untruthfully. For the first time, they share with the general public their methodology and their secrets to the art of asking questions that elicit the truth.A lot crystallized in Phil’s mind that day about how people lie. If the facts are not their ally, people have to say something that convinces you, and the best thing they can say is something that’s true or irrefutable.” One key aspect of being non-confrontational is to avoid immediately pointing out logical inconsistencies in their statements. Instead, continue probing in a friendly manner, allowing the person to feel comfortable and cooperative. Repeating questions is also counterproductive, as it can lead to the person solidifying their lies and making them harder to detect. Liars tend to repeat their lies more easily, and asking the same question repeatedly can inadvertently provide them with an opportunity to do so. If someone asked you how many times you lie on a given day, how would you answer (without lying)? Some studies indicate that we lie up to an amazing 200 times per day. Others suggest that it is near ten times that amount. This book is both entertaining and highly informative—and it’s the real deal. It gives readers genuine practical tools and tactics to use in all walks of life. I highly recommend it.”—David J. Lieberman, Ph.D., New York Times bestselling author of Never Be Lied to Again