Posted on Sunday, 13 January 2008
Never strike a man. For one thing it is the act of a coward. For another, it is unintelligent, for the spy will give an answer to please, an answer to escape punishment. And having given a false answer, all else depends upon the false premise.
Robin ‘Tin-Eye’ Stephens, commander of Camp 020, in advice to interrogators, 1942. (Reported in The Guardian, 18/2/05)
