Elicitation
& HUMINT
The art of obtaining information people wouldn't normally give you — through conversation, not interrogation. 40 field-tested techniques from 20 years of HUMINT operations. Including the defense module: how to recognize when you're the target.
- Technique demonstrations with live dialogue
- Case walkthroughs including the Berlin Conference operation
- Psychological mechanism explained for each technique
- Defense module — recognizing when you're being elicited
- All 40 techniques: Foundation, Conversational, Advanced, Specialist, Team
- Full case study: The Elicitation of Sorin Damaschin
- Defense chapter: How to deflect elicitation attempts
- Verification framework for obtained intelligence
- Week 1–2: Foundation techniques in low-stakes conversations
- Week 3–4: Conversational techniques — professional settings
- Week 5–6: Advanced techniques — planned operations
- Week 7–8: Team techniques and defense application
What you'll
master.
Organized in five progressive tiers — from conversational foundations to advanced multi-operator team techniques. Every technique includes its psychological mechanism and the reason it works on most people, most of the time.
How Dr. Sorin Damaschin — PhD, 23 Patents, Head of R&D — Lost Classified Intelligence in One Conversation
The target was not naive. Dr. Sorin Damaschin was 49 years old, a distinguished aeronautics engineer with 23 patents, Head of R&D at a major South African aerospace firm, and an Associate Professor at the University of Johannesburg. He had every reason to be careful. He was also proud of his work, a skilled speaker who enjoyed explaining — and that was exactly his vulnerability.
Using Approximation to trigger a correction reflex, Assumed Shared Knowledge to lower his guard, and the Need for Arbitration technique to get a subordinate talking in his presence, two intelligence operatives extracted: the development stage of a classified drone program, the funding status of three active research lines, the names and roles of key personnel, and proximity-to-completion data on a stealth aircraft project. In a single conference break.
Every technique in this course passed a single filter: did it work under real pressure, with real people, in real situations? The ones that didn't are not in this course.
Every profession that runs
on information.
Elicitation is the most universally applicable skill in this system. If you have conversations where information matters — this course is for you.
40 techniques.
One complete system.
Video episodes, complete e-book, and 4–8 week training guide. Everything to take you from understanding elicitation to applying it — with the defense module included at no extra cost.
