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| Selection of Personnel for Clandestine Operations: Assessment of Men (Intelligence Series , No 9) | 
| Authors: Donald W. Fiske, Eugenia Hanfmann, Donald W. Mackinnon, James G. Miller, H. A. Murray
Publisher: Aegean Park Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 2198723
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 541
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.4
Dimensions (in): 11 x 8.5 x 1.5
ISBN: 0894122029
Dewey Decimal Number: 903
EAN: 9780894122026
ASIN: 0894122029
Publication Date: April 1996
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Product Description
The origin of this book is a text written by personnel of the Schools and Training Branch, Office of Strategic Services (OSS) at the end of World War II. Months of statistical calculation on the part of more than a dozen psychologists and psychiatrists went into the foundation of this book. The techniques developed are especially relevant for those engaged in assessing candidates, whether for identifying disqualifying defects of function or for determining unusual talents or abilities. This book provides a candid exploration of the first attempt in America to design and carry out selection procedures in conformity with Gestalt principles. The text particularly will invite the attention of those concerned with predicting human behavior and improving methods of diagnosis, assessment and selection.
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Interesting Document January 11, 2002
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is an unclassified version of a study originally done by OSS psychologists on the selection of personnel suitable for clandestine operations. This means those in which the individual is inserted into enemy territory and then left alone to live under deep cover, always living in a state of stress and tension.
Compare this with covert operations in which groups of individuals are inserted for the purpose of operational support to indigenous forces or for independent raids and sabotage. On covert ops there is usually a safe zone where some can relax and unwind while others watch and the individual is not only armed but often uniformed as well. Wearing a uniform does not protect one from summary execution as a spy if captured but it does gives a valid claim to POW status and one can hope it will be granted.
Thus, it takes a very special mental state to operate alone and to expect nothing but torture and death if captured. And hope that execution will be swift. Few can stand the tension that results from being alone in a hostile environment.
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