TEHNICA ELICITĂRII – REEVALUAREA EXPLOATĂRII ÎN ORB
ELICITATION TEHNIC – RE-EVALUATE THE INFORMATION EXPLORATION/EXPLOITATION

Summary/Abstract: Academic studies in the sphere of intelligence have been fuelled by the need to provide a scientific basis for the knowledge and foresight of the processes, activities and products pertaining to the field. Intelligence studies have traditionally been oriented towards the stages of the intelligence cycle, intelligence typology, doctrines, taxonomies, technological data collection, axiological and ethical aspects, and the feedback received from the recipients of the finished intelligence product. However, intentionally or not, the academic studies have, most of the times, left undocumented one of the fundamental activities of the field, i.e. the collection of information from human sources - HUMINT. Considered rather spy craft, or tradecraft at best, the lack of scientific research in this sub-field can be motivated, in the absence of a better argument, either by excessive and improper scientific restraint, or by invoking, as inappropriately as in the first case, the protection of professional secrecy. This article aims to identify scientific foundations of information exploration/exploitation in the process of elicitation, which is a technique used to extract information from people without raising suspicion that specific facts are being sought.

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