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Which Personality Type Are You?<br />
<br />
by KUBARK<br />
-------------------------------------------------<br />
<br />
Tired of the same old personality<br />
classifications: Is she a Cancer? Is he a<br />
Sagitarius? Well, do we have a solution for you,<br />
courtesy of the US's very own Central<br />
Intelligence Agency, who had its psychologists<br />
draw up thumbnail sketches of nine personality<br />
types its agents might encounter in their<br />
counterintelligence interrogations.<br />
<br />
These types are based on "the fact that a<br />
person's past is always reflected, however<br />
dimly, in his present ethics and behavior. Old<br />
dogs can learn new tricks but not new ways of<br />
learning them. People do change, but what<br />
appears to be new behavior or a new<br />
psychological pattern is usually just a variant<br />
on an old theme."<br />
<br />
The descriptions are hard-core. They bite. They<br />
draw blood. None of this "I'm okay, you're okay"<br />
nonsense. And, of course, you are not okay.<br />
You're under interrogation, remember?<br />
<br />
Here they are, direct from the (mostly)<br />
declassified KUBARK Counterintelligence<br />
Investigation manual.<br />
-------------------------------------------------<br />
<br />
Personality Categories<br />
<br />
The number of systems devised for categorizing<br />
human beings is large, and most of them are of<br />
dubious validity. Various categorical schemes<br />
are outlined in treatises on interrogation. The<br />
two typologies most frequently advocated are<br />
psychologic-emotional and geographic-cultural.<br />
Those who urge the former argue that the basic<br />
emotional-psychological patterns do not vary<br />
significantly with time, place, or culture. The<br />
latter school maintains the existence of a<br />
national character and sub-national categories,<br />
and interrogation guides based on this principle<br />
recommend approaches tailored to geographical<br />
cultures.<br />
<br />
It is plainly true that the interrogation source<br />
cannot be understood in a vacuum, isolated from<br />
social context. It is equally true that some of<br />
the most glaring blunders in interrogation (and<br />
other operational processes) have resulted from<br />
ignoring the source's background. Moreover,<br />
emotional-psychological schematizations<br />
sometimes present atypical extremes rather than<br />
the kinds of people commonly encountered by<br />
interrogators. Such typologies also cause<br />
disagreement even among professional<br />
psychiatrists and psychologists. Interrogators<br />
who adopt them and who note in an interrogatee<br />
one or two of the characteristics of "Type A"<br />
may mistakenly assign the source to Category A<br />
and assume the remaining traits.<br />
<br />
On the other hand, there are valid objections to<br />
the adoption of cultural-geographic categories<br />
for interrogation purposes (however valid they<br />
may be as KUCAGE concepts). The pitfalls of<br />
ignorance of the distinctive culture of the<br />
source have "[approx. 12 lines deleted]".<br />
<br />
The ideal solution would be to avoid all<br />
categorizing. Basically, all schemes for<br />
labelling people are wrong per se; applied<br />
arbitrarily, they always produce distortions.<br />
Every interrogator knows that a real<br />
understanding of the individual is worth far<br />
more than a thorough knowledge of this or that<br />
pigeon-hole to which he has been consigned. And<br />
for interrogation purposes the ways in which he<br />
differs from the abstract type may be more<br />
significant than the ways in which he conforms.<br />
<br />
But KUBARK does not dispose of the time or<br />
personnel to probe the depths of each source's<br />
individuality. In the opening phases of<br />
interrogation, or in a quick interrogation, we<br />
are compelled to make some use of the shorthand<br />
of categorizing, despite distortions. Like other<br />
interrogation aides, a scheme of categories is<br />
useful only if recognized for what it is -- a<br />
set of labels that facilitate communication but<br />
are not the same as the persons thus labelled.<br />
If an interrogatee lies persistently, an<br />
interrogator may report and dismiss him as a<br />
"pathological liar." Yet such persons may<br />
possess counterintelligence (or other)<br />
information quite equal in value to that held by<br />
other sources, and the interrogator likeliest to<br />
get at it is the man who is not content with<br />
labelling but is as interested in why the<br />
subject lies as in what he lies about.<br />
<br />
With all of these reservations, then, and with<br />
the further observation that those who find<br />
these psychological-emotional categories<br />
pragmatically valuable should use them and those<br />
who do not should let them alone, the following<br />
nine types are described. The categories are<br />
based upon the fact that a person's past is<br />
always reflected, however dimily, in his present<br />
ethics and behavior. Old dogs can learn new<br />
tricks but not new ways of learning them. People<br />
do change, but what appears to be new behavior<br />
or a new psychological pattern is usually just a<br />
variant on the old theme.<br />
<br />
It is not claimed that the classification system<br />
presented here is complete; some interrogatees<br />
will not fit into any one of the groupings. And<br />
like all other typologies, the system is plagued<br />
by overlap, so that some interrogatees will show<br />
characteristics of more than one group. Above<br />
all, the interrogator must remember that finding<br />
some of the characteristics of the group in a<br />
single source does not warrant an immediate<br />
conclusion that the source "belongs to" the<br />
group, and that even correct labelling is not<br />
the equivalent of understanding people but<br />
merely an aid to understanding.<br />
<br />
The nine major groups within the<br />
psychological-emotional category adopted for<br />
this handbook are the following.<br />
<br />
1. The orderly-obstinate character. People in<br />
this category are characteristically frugal,<br />
orderly, and cold; frequently they are quite<br />
intellectual. They are not impulsive in<br />
behavior. They tend to think things through<br />
logically and to act deliberately. They often<br />
reach decisions very slowly. They are far less<br />
likely to make real personal sacrifices for a<br />
cause than to use them as a temporary means of<br />
obtaining a permanent personal gain. They are<br />
secretive and disinclined to confide in anyone<br />
else their plans and plots, which frequently<br />
concern the overthrow of some form of authority.<br />
They are also stubborn, although they may<br />
pretend cooperation or even believe that they<br />
are cooperating. They nurse grudges.<br />
<br />
The orderly-obstinate character considers<br />
himself superior to other people. Sometimes his<br />
sense of superiority is interwoven with a kind<br />
of magical thinking that includes all sorts of<br />
superstitions and fantasies about controlling<br />
his environment. He may even have a system of<br />
morality that is all his own. He sometimes<br />
gratifies his feeling of secret superiority by<br />
provoking unjust treatment. He also tries,<br />
characteristically, to keep open a line of<br />
escape by avoiding any real commitment to<br />
anything. He is -- and always has been --<br />
intensely concerned about his personal<br />
possessions. He is usually a tightwad who saves<br />
everything, has a strong sense of propriety, and<br />
is punctual and tidy. His money and other<br />
possessions have for him a personalized quality;<br />
they are parts of himself. He often carries<br />
around shiny coins, keepsakes, a bunch of keys,<br />
and other objects having for himself an actual<br />
or symbolic value.<br />
<br />
Usually the orderly-obstinate character has a<br />
history of active rebellion in childhood, of<br />
persistently doing the exact opposite of what he<br />
is told to do. As an adult he may have learned<br />
to cloak his resistance and become<br />
passive-aggressive, but his determination to get<br />
his own way is unaltered. He has merely learned<br />
how to proceed indirectly if necessary. The<br />
profound fear and hatred of authority,<br />
persisting since childhood, is often<br />
well-concealed in adulthood, For example, such a<br />
person may confess easily and quickly under<br />
interrogation, even to acts that he did not<br />
commit, in order to throw the interrogator off<br />
the trail of a significant discovery (or, more<br />
rarely, because of feelings of guilt).<br />
<br />
The interrogator who is dealing with an<br />
orderly-obstinate character should avoid the<br />
role of hostile authority. Threats and<br />
threatening gestures, table-pounding, pouncing<br />
on evasions or lies, and any similarly<br />
authoritative tactics will only awaken in such a<br />
subject his old anxieties and habitual defense<br />
mechanisms. To attain rapport, the interrogator<br />
should be friendly. It will probably prove<br />
rewarding if the room and the interrogator look<br />
exceptionally neat. Orderly-obstinate<br />
interrogatees often collect coins or other<br />
objects as a hobby; time spent in sharing their<br />
interests may thaw some of the ice. Establishing<br />
rapport is extremely important when dealing with<br />
this type.[approx 3 lines deleted]<br />
<br />
2. The optimistic character. This kind of source<br />
is almost constantly happy-go-lucky, impulsive,<br />
inconsistent, and undependable. He seems to<br />
enjoy a continuing state of well-being. He may<br />
be generous to a fault, giving to others as he<br />
wants to be given to. He may become an alcoholic<br />
or drug addict. He is not able to withstand very<br />
much pressure; he reacts to a challenge not by<br />
increasing his efforts but rather by running<br />
away to avoid conflict. His convictions that<br />
"something will turn up", that "everything will<br />
work out all right", is based on his need to<br />
avoid his own responsibility for events and<br />
depend upon a kindly fate.<br />
<br />
Such a person has usually had a great deal of<br />
over-indulgence in early life. He is sometimes<br />
the youngest member of a large family, the child<br />
of a middle-aged woman (a so-called<br />
"change-of-life baby"). If he has met severe<br />
frustrations in later childhood, he may be<br />
petulant, vengeful, and constantly demanding.<br />
<br />
As interrogation sources, optimistic characters<br />
respond best to a kindly, parental approach. If<br />
withholding, they can often be handled<br />
effectively by the Mutt-and-Jeff technique<br />
discussed later in this paper. Pressure tactics<br />
or hostility will make them retreat inside<br />
themselves, whereas reassurance will bring them<br />
out. They tend to seek promises, to cast the<br />
interrogator in the role of protector and<br />
problem-solver; and it is important that the<br />
interrogator avoid making any specific promises<br />
that cannot be fulfilled, because the optimist<br />
turned vengeful is likely to prove troublesome.<br />
<br />
3. The greedy, demanding character. This kind of<br />
person affixes himself to others like a leech<br />
and clings obsessively. Although extremely<br />
dependent and passive, he constantly demands<br />
that others take care of him and gratify his<br />
wishes. If he considers himself wronged, he does<br />
not seek redress through his own efforts but<br />
tries to persuade another to take up the cudgels<br />
in his behalf -- "let's you and him fight." His<br />
loyalties are likely to shift whenever he feels<br />
that the sponsor whom he has chosen has let him<br />
down. Defectors of this type feel aggrieved<br />
because their desires were not satisfied in<br />
their countries of origin, but they soon feel<br />
equally deprived in a second land and turn<br />
against its government or representatives in the<br />
same way. The greedy and demanding character is<br />
subject to rather frequent depressions. He may<br />
direct a desire for revenge inward, upon<br />
himself; in extreme cases suicide may result.<br />
<br />
The greedy, demanding character often suffered<br />
from very early deprivation of affection or<br />
security. As an adult he continues to seek<br />
substitute parents who will care for him as his<br />
own, he feels, did not.<br />
<br />
The interrogator dealing with a greedy,<br />
demanding character must be careful not to<br />
rebuff him; otherwise rapport will be destroyed.<br />
On the other hand, the interrogator must not<br />
accede to demands which cannot or should not be<br />
met. Adopting the tone of an understanding<br />
father or big brother is likely to make the<br />
subject responsive. If he makes exorbitant<br />
requests, an unimportant favor may provide a<br />
satisfactory substitute because the demand<br />
arises not from a specific need but as an<br />
expression of the subject's need for security.<br />
He is likely to find reassuring any<br />
manifestation of concern for his well-being.<br />
<br />
In dealing with this type -- and to a<br />
considerable extent in dealing with any of the<br />
types herein listed -- the interrogator must be<br />
aware of the limits and pitfalls of rational<br />
persuasion. If he seeks to induce cooperation by<br />
an appeal to logic, he should first determine<br />
whether the source's resistance is based on<br />
logic. The appeal will glance off ineffectually<br />
if the resistance is totally or chiefly<br />
emotional rather than rational. Emotional<br />
resistance can be dissipated only by emotional<br />
manipulation.<br />
<br />
4. The anxious, self-centered character.<br />
Although this person is fearful, he is engaged<br />
in a constant struggle to conceal his fears. He<br />
is frequently a daredevil who compensates for<br />
his anxiety by pretending that there is no such<br />
thing as danger. He may be a stunt flier or<br />
circus performer who "proves" himself before<br />
crowds. He may also be a Don Juan. He tends to<br />
brag and often lies through hunger for approval<br />
or praise. As a soldier or officer he may have<br />
been decorated for bravery; but if so, his<br />
comrades may suspect that his exploits resulted<br />
from a pleasure in exposing himself to danger<br />
and the anticipated delights of rewards,<br />
approval, and applause. The anxious,<br />
self-centered character is usually intensely<br />
vain and equally sensitive.<br />
<br />
People who show these characteristics are<br />
actually unusually fearful. The causes of<br />
intense concealed anxiety are too complex and<br />
subtle to permit discussion of the subject in<br />
this paper.<br />
<br />
Of greater importance to the interrogator than<br />
the causes is the opportunity provided by<br />
concealed anxiety for successful manipulation of<br />
the source. His desire to impress will usually<br />
be quickly evident. He is likely to be voluble.<br />
Ignoring or ridiculing his bragging, or cutting<br />
him short with a demand that he get down to<br />
cases, is likely to make him resentful and to<br />
stop the flow. Playing upon his vanity,<br />
especially by praising his courage, will usually<br />
be a successful tactic if employed skillfully.<br />
Anxious, self-centered interrogatees who are<br />
withholding significant facts, such as contact<br />
with a hostile service, are likelier to divulge<br />
if made to feel that the truth will not be used<br />
to harm them and if the interrogator also<br />
stresses the callousness and stupidity of the<br />
adversary in sending so valiant a person upon so<br />
ill-prepared a mission. There is little to be<br />
gained and much to be lost by exposing the<br />
nonrelevant lies of this kind of source. Gross<br />
lies about deeds of daring, sexual prowess, or<br />
other "proofs" of courage and manliness are best<br />
met with silence or with friendly but<br />
noncommittal replies unless they consume an<br />
inordinate amount of time. If operational use is<br />
contemplated, recruitment may sometimes be<br />
effected through such queries as, "I wonder if<br />
you would be willing to undertake a dangerous<br />
mission."<br />
<br />
5. The guilt-ridden character. This kind of<br />
person has a strong cruel, unrealistic<br />
conscience. His whole life seems devoted to<br />
reliving his feelings of guilt. Sometimes he<br />
seems determined to atone; at other times he<br />
insists that whatever went wrong is the fault of<br />
somebody else. In either event he seeks<br />
constantly some proof or external indication<br />
that the guilt of others is greater than his<br />
own. He is often caught up completely in efforts<br />
to prove that he has been treated unjustly. In<br />
fact, he may provoke unjust treatment in order<br />
to assuage his conscience through punishment.<br />
Compulsive gamblers who find no real pleasure in<br />
winning but do find relief in losing belong to<br />
this class. So do persons who falsely confess to<br />
crimes. Sometimes such people actually commit<br />
crimes in order to confess and be punished.<br />
Masochists also belong in this category.<br />
<br />
The causes of most guilt complexes are real or<br />
fancied wrongs done to parents or others whom<br />
the subject felt he ought to love and honor. As<br />
children such people may have been frequently<br />
scolded or punished. Or they may have been<br />
"model" children who repressed all natural<br />
hostilities.<br />
<br />
The guilt-ridden character is hard to<br />
interrogate. He may "confess" to hostile<br />
clandestine activity, or other acts of interest<br />
to KUBARK, in which he was not involved.<br />
Accusations levelled at him by the interrogator<br />
are likely to trigger such false confessions. Or<br />
he may remain silent when accused, enjoying the<br />
"punishment." He is a poor subject for<br />
LCFLUTTER. The complexities of dealing with<br />
conscience-ridden interrogatees vary so widely<br />
from case to case that it is almost impossible<br />
to list sound general principles. Perhaps the<br />
best advice is that the interrogator, once<br />
alerted by information from the screening<br />
process (see Part VI) or by the subject's<br />
excessive preoccupation with moral judgements,<br />
should treat as suspect and subjective any<br />
information provided by the interrogatee about<br />
any matter that is of moral concern to him.<br />
Persons with intense guilt feelings may cease<br />
resistance and cooperate if punished in some<br />
way, because of the gratification induced by<br />
punishment.<br />
<br />
6. The character wrecked by success is closely<br />
related to the guilt-ridden character. This sort<br />
of person cannot tolerate success and goes<br />
through life failing at critical points. He is<br />
often accident-prone. Typically he has a long<br />
history of being promising and of almost<br />
completing a significant assignment or<br />
achievement but not bringing it off. The<br />
character who cannot stand success enjoys his<br />
ambitions as long as they remain fantasies but<br />
somehow ensures that they will not be fulfilled<br />
in reality. Acquaintances often feel that his<br />
success is just around the corner, but something<br />
always intervenes. In actuality this something<br />
is a sense of guilt, of the kind described<br />
above. The person who avoids success has a<br />
conscience which forbids the pleasures of<br />
accomplishment and recognition. He frequently<br />
projects his guilt feelings and feels that all<br />
of his failures were someone else's fault. He<br />
may have a strong need to suffer and may seek<br />
danger or injury.<br />
<br />
As interrogatees these people who "cannot stand<br />
prosperity" pose no special problem unless the<br />
interrogation impinges upon their feelings of<br />
guilt or the reasons for their past failures.<br />
Then subjective distortions, not facts, will<br />
result. The successful interrogator will isolate<br />
this area of unreliability.<br />
<br />
7. The schizoid or strange character lives in a<br />
world of fantasy much of the time. Sometimes he<br />
seems unable to distinguish reality from the<br />
realm of his own creating. The real world seems<br />
to him empty and meaningless, in contrast with<br />
the mysteriously significant world that he has<br />
made. He is extremely intolerant of any<br />
frustration that occurs in the outer world and<br />
deals with it by withdrawal into the interior<br />
realm.<br />
<br />
He has no real attachments to others, although<br />
he may attach symbolic and private meanings or<br />
values to other people.<br />
<br />
Children reared in homes lacking in ordinary<br />
affection and attention or in orphanages or<br />
state-run communes may become adults who belong<br />
to this category. Rebuffed in early efforts to<br />
attach themselves to another, they become<br />
distrustful of attachments and turn inward. Any<br />
link to a group or country will be undependable<br />
and, as a rule, transitory. At the same time the<br />
schizoid character needs external approval.<br />
Though he retreats from reality, he does not<br />
want to feel abandoned.<br />
<br />
As an interrogatee the schizoid character is<br />
likely to lie readily to win approval. He will<br />
tell the interrogator what he thinks the<br />
interrogator wants to hear in order to win the<br />
award of seeing a smile on the interrogator's<br />
face. Because he is not always capable of<br />
distinguishing between fact and fantasy, he may<br />
be unaware of lying. The desire for approval<br />
provides the interrogator with a handle. Whereas<br />
accusations of lying or other indications of<br />
disesteem will provoke withdrawal from the<br />
situation, teasing the truth out of the schizoid<br />
subject may not prove difficult if he is<br />
convinced that he will not incur favor through<br />
misstatements or disfavor through telling the<br />
truth.<br />
<br />
Like the guilt-ridden character, the schizoid<br />
character may be an unreliable subject for<br />
testing by LCFLUTTER because his internal needs<br />
lead him to confuse fact with fancy. He is also<br />
likely to make an unreliable agent because of<br />
his incapacity to deal with facts and to form<br />
real relationships.<br />
<br />
8. The exception believes that the world owes<br />
him a great deal. He feels that he suffered a<br />
gross injustice, usually early in life, and<br />
should be repaid. Sometimes the injustice was<br />
meted out impersonally, by fate, as a physical<br />
deformity, an extremely painful illness or<br />
operation in childhood, or the early loss of one<br />
parent or both. Feeling that these misfortunes<br />
were undeserved, the exceptions regard them as<br />
injustices that someone or something must<br />
rectify. Therefore they claim as their right<br />
privileges not permitted others. When the claim<br />
is ignored or denied, the exceptions become<br />
rebellious, as adolescents often do. They are<br />
convinced that the justice of the claim is plain<br />
for all to see and that any refusal to grant it<br />
is willfully malignant.<br />
<br />
When interrogated, the exceptions are likely to<br />
make demands for money, resettlement aid, and<br />
other favors -- demands that are completely out<br />
of proportion to the value of their<br />
contributions. Any ambiguous replies to such<br />
demands will be interpreted as acquiescence. Of<br />
all the types considered here, the exception is<br />
likeliest to carry an alleged injustice dealt<br />
him by KUBARK to the newspapers or the courts.<br />
<br />
The best general line to follow in handling<br />
those who believe that they are exceptions is to<br />
listen attentively (within reasonable<br />
timelimits) to their grievances and to make no<br />
commitments that cannot be discharged fully.<br />
Defectors from hostile intelligence services,<br />
doubles, provocateurs, and others who have had<br />
more than passing contact with a Sino-Soviet<br />
service may, if they belong to this category,<br />
prove unusually responsive to suggestions from<br />
the interrogator that they have been treated<br />
unfairly by the other service. Any planned<br />
operational use of such persons should take into<br />
account the fact that they have no sense of<br />
loyalty to a common cause and are likely to turn<br />
aggrievedly against superiors.<br />
<br />
9. The average or normal character is not a<br />
person wholly lacking in the characteristics of<br />
the other types. He may, in fact, exhibit most<br />
or all of them from time to time. But no one of<br />
them is persistently dominant; the average man's<br />
qualities of obstinacy, unrealistic optimism,<br />
anxiety, and the rest are not overriding or<br />
imperious except for relatively short intervals.<br />
Moreover, his reactions to the world around him<br />
are more dependent upon events in that world and<br />
less the product of rigid, subjective patterns<br />
than is true of the other types discussed.<br />
<br />
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<br />
For further reading, see the complete KUBARK<br />
Counterintelligence Interrogation Manual.<br />
<br />
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<br />
from The Laissez Faire City Times, Vol. 2, No.<br />
36, Nov. 2, 1998<br />
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